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Off and takes its time before it crests and makes its way downstream. well continue to monitor this situation. a very dangerous situation unfolding now as that levee is beginning to fail. fredericka? >> jacqui, thanks so much. going to follow up on that with kathy johnson, i think shes the deputy director at the emergency management of columbia county. so give me an idea of how youre able to get these evacuations under way. mandatory or is it voluntary at this point? >> all evacuations are volun...

Fredericka is here with company this morning. youve got a crew following you around today. thanks for stopping by. >> its for an upcoming project. folks want to know what it is we do as we lead up to a show, how we prepare. in order to do that, weve got to have crews available. thats why you see john in that shot. he is following us around this morning. how we prepare for the noon through 5:00. then what its like to be t.j.? >> its exhausting. >> i know. its been a lot this morning. >> its not s...

And bps 48-hour test of the new cap ended, but testing on the pressure on the cap will continue. david mattingly is joining us from new orleans. what is the latest? >> reporter: well, fredericka, here we are at the end of that 48-hour test. and the well seems to be passing with flying colors. so far, they have seen no leaks of oil or gas out of this well as that pressure has continued to climb. but here at the end of that 48 hours, theres talk of maybe testing a little bit longer. part of that a...

Very beginning. what is the latest? >> reporter: well, fredericka, that 48-hour deadline is now out the window. theyre going to see how this goes. and a lot of that has to do with the fact that the pressure thats building up there was not going up to what they originally thought it would. its doing well. theyre finding out this well is in good shape, no signs of any leaks so far, which is fantastic. theyre continuing to do all sorts of seismic testing and other types of testing down below just t...

Player. >> what is the atmosphere like? >> you can see it. its aplaysing. >> will this turn it around in america? >> no. i think this is a start of a long trend. >> i think england is the one with the rough history. i think this is a good start for america. >> president obama and the new british prime minister made a bet. of course, its a bet on beer regarding the outcome of this match. >> there is something similar going on between the two of us. >> a beer, not entitlement to a bed in the apart...

You can see a ton more at cnn.com/worldcup. say you cant sound like an expert, you might be able to make yourself look like a soccer expert thanks to jibjab. look at this video, folks. they have put our faces into it. you have suzanne, drew. there we are. look at me. i have my glasses on even with the rag i got going on on my head. jibjab.com. drew rocks. wheres drew? oh! thats you, dude. i think thats you. >> whoa! >> fredericka, too. >> i missed a sitter. >> there we go. >> it was a dive. >> w...

Resa is in islamabad today. leaders asked iranians to lay low today because they feared bloodshed. >> reporter: yeah. i think we have to put things in perspective, fredericka. there were no widespread demonstrations in the streets of tehran today, certainly not close to what we saw one year ago. there were small pockets of protests, small pockets of clashes. this was another day when a huge number of security forces overwhelmed the protestors and outmuscled them and simply didnt allow them to ga...

Cleaning up oil spills like the one in the gulf of mexico is a massive and comprehensive operation. cnn allan chernoff gave exclusive look at the operations this were used, developed and tested. >> reporter: how does the oil industry know what to do, what techniques are going to work? the research is done right here at the oil and hazardous materials simulated environmental test tank. this facility is run by the interior departments minerals management services, and it is the largest of its kind...

Toxins in the environment as a result of that. how much of the oil actually burned by this method? is there any way of knowing that? >> reporter: i think there are numbers. i think its something, thousands of gallons are burning. keep in mind just because bp capped one of the leaks on wednesday, that doesnt change the volume of the leakage. its still leaking 210,000 gallons of oil each and every day. >> that is huge. quite significant. thanks so much. we are going to check back with new an hour,...

Alicia and jason from knoxville. tell me what it was like about a minute before the crash. what did you hear? >> we didnt hear anything a minute before, to be quite honest. it wasnt until about 20 seconds before that we faintly heard something over the intercom. if it wasnt for the ferry worker that came and yelled brace yourself a second before the impact, we wouldnt have known anything was going to happen. >> jason, how would you describe what that impact felt like? can you pair it to anything...