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This new contain many cap. what it is designed to do. ed lau is bp hoping the new cap will completely -- not shut off whats happening there, the gusher, but control the flow of the oil? >>. >> reporter: that is the ideal situation. once again, we find ourselves in a critical couple of days here. you heard the admiral there say they will try to move that containment cap into place and once that happens, they are going to try to begin the process of a 48-hour -- what they are calling an integrity ...

Do you share some of the concerns that that letter raises? >> i think i share the concern about the number of contributing factors that have created this incident. theyre focused on the cement, on the casing, on the integrity test, on the well control procedures and on the complete failure of the blowout preventer. they are all areas that i believe we all need to understand fully before we draw conclusions about how this accident occurred. >> my final question is that based on what you now know,...

You -- now that you know whats happened, do you share some of the concerns that this letter raises? >> i think i share the concern about the number of contributing factors that may have -- that have created this incident. theyre focused on the cement, on the casing, on the integrity test, on the well control procedures and on the complete failure of the blowout preventer and they are all areas that i believe we all need to understand fully before we draw conclusions about how this accident occur...

An eight pin type end on them, kind of like a seismic chart and they raised pressures up to 5,000 psi for the integrity test and theyre supposed to hold them by state regulations for five minutes. when they hold them up for five, ten, 20 seconds and the pressures up to 5,000 they take their finger and slide the chart to five minutes and release the pressures and move on to the next valve. >> as alisyn mentioned, you witnessed cheating at least 100 times. the question, who is at fault here? becau...

With this warning, the stlis delay from anchorage is longer than usual. mr. mason, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, keith. >> explain briefly how a blowout reventer works and what testing tells them before you install them? >> well, blowout preventer works in two different ways. one, to sheer the well off in -- if the primary way doesnt work which is to seal the pipe off. and to test the b.o.p.s is what they call an integrity test to see if they hold up to the pressures. >> what exactly i...

Them. >> well, a blowout preventer works in two different ways. one, to shear the well off if the primary way doesnt work, which is to seal the pipe off. to test the bops its what they call an integrity test to see if they hold up to the pressures. >> so what exactly is the claim youve made about the testing that bp and its contractors have done on the blowout preventers? >> well, when they test the bops theyre supposed to hold each test for five minutes, at 5,000 psi. to cut corners they hold t...

But what halliburton is saying, we worked on it but were just a subcontractor, we were done 20 hours before the accident and all of our work passed the integrity test. theyre saying if youre looking for someone to blame here, look at the equipment operator, look at the people in charge but dont look so much at us. as you said from the beginning, we have a circle of everybody pointing at everybody else and saying, this is where the blame lies. it is a very hard for any senator or congressman to m...

They finished with well ahead of time. the accusation is that there was a problem here that allowed a rush of oil, a rush of methane gas which caused this explosion. but what halliburton is saying, we worked on it but were just a subcontractor, we were done 20 hours before the accident and all of our work passed the integrity test. theyre saying if youre looking for someone to blame here, look at the equipment operator, look at the people in charge but dont look so much at us. as you said from t...

Posed nude. now theyre back together. "us weekly" broke the story and well hear from an editor tonight. it is day 89 of the gulf oil disaster and day two of zero oil gushing into the gulf. bps integrity test of its new cap is now passed the 48-hour mark and will go on a while longer. david mattingly joins us from new orleans. david, why the extension of this testing period? >> reporter: well, thats just another evidence of all the caution that were seeing throughout this entire process. 48 hou...

Next on "larry king live." good evening. we begin with breaking news in what could be a turning point in the gulf oil spill tragedy. lets get the latest from cnns ed lavandera in new orleans. whats the latest, ed? >> reporter: well, larry, right now, we know that officials with bp and the federal government are entering into the preliminary testing phase, getting ready for whats called the integrity test. based on the readings they get from these tests overed course of the next 48 hours will det...