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Paid. bp just paid billions of dollars by admitting it screwed them at every single turn. and we just keep giving them more licenses and more leases. go bp go. i dont understand it. >> the rules should be the same everywhere. the people of louisiana should not be -- and mississippi and alabama and florida should not be paying for this on their own. their leaders dont have the political fortitude. >> they dont have it. they do a good job, but they dont have big mouths. >> bp has paid a lot of mon...

Its not working. >> shepard: theres thousands of these wells out there. maybe its time to get a well stack for up a of them if it happens once, it can happen again. dow jones newswires reports bp shares up 10%. go bp. on jonathan serrie is with us. have we gotten reaction from inside? >> not yet. before this exercise began, federal officials said based on the pressure, that alone will give them a better idea of the flow rate and consequently, if they multiply that by the days of the disaster, a ...

I believe there was a dow jones alert that said the integrity test started at 2:25 central, so only 3:25. i dont know how long the tests take. >> shepard: we know bp has been dialing down the flow as part of a test on a new cap. one of fears was they would dial the flow down to where there was nothing and it might blow underneath or below the surface in the core of that well. it seemed as if that was a risk, right? >> good questions all. probably a little bit over my head so i dont want to be mi...

Crack or weak point. what they could do according to bp, say that did happen. you can then release the valves on the cap, allow the great majority of the oil to flow and bp does have in place at the top of the gulf the facilities to capture oil coming up. the reason bp is going to say this is good news is you have a cap that, if the pressure holds and they dont have leaks, you have a cap that in case of a hurricane, they can shut it down, no oil goes not gulf for 48 hours they can protect everyb...

Spouse from the gulf floor? then what do they do? >> then you have a catastrophic emergency. they went through with this test on the premise that that would be highly unlikely. this was the reason for that initial delay, the 24-hour delay the government wanting assurances from bp that this test wasnt going to make matters worse. they seem confident this is highly unlikely but if that were to happen, obviously it would be a catastrophic emergency and they would to call in even more vessels to get...

80,000 barrels. not a perfect situation, but theyre going to say in the press conference they have made significant progress. >> shepard: and a few days ago they said up to 60,000-gallon are leaking. on the left-hand side distribute they dont say what theyre leaking. >> shepard: we have no idea. adam. we dont know, do with. >> thats right. and neither does bp. >> shepard: bp doesnt know! come on. i no more believe that than i believe in the man in the man. i dont believe it. im sorry. ive spoken...

Kent wells, the been vice president is talking on the phone. he announced at the top of the call, what you reported, bp stopped leaking oil for the first time. we pulled up the bp -- bp is providing 12 cameras, were still listening to the information but as far as we can see, no oil is leaking from the cameras. we have them on most of our it was. to the eye, this appears to be for the first time that no oil is coming out of that hole since the first time since april. were going to log that call ...