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Signs of any new oil leaking from the capped well, we are waiting though for the ultimate fix, that, a relief well to permanently plug the leak, and, not coming until later next month but the tests continue, gulf coast residents, bp, the white house and the country anxiously watching and waiting to see you if this is finally at its end. phil keating live in louisiana with the latest. phil, there seems to be an ongoing debate with the cap, what to do next. what is that about? >> reporter: well, a...

Apparently no new oil gushing into the gulf of mexico. and, the pressure readings under the new tight-fitting cap, all are steadily rising and, they havent seen or detected new oil over the integrity test and the small fleet of remotely operated vehicles and seismic and sonar readings being conducted from the surface, the data indicates the wells integrity appears to be sound. but instead of leaving the well essentially corked and waiting for the bottom kill to happen with the relief well, the p...

>> reporter: that is true. all of that is true and now, we are in essentially a holding pattern. admiral thad allen, just allowed the structural integrity test of the cap and the well, itself, to continue now, for a 4th day and were an hour now into the 4th day, and, admiral thad allen announced earlier today, that every day, hes going to decide around 4:00 in the afternoon, eastern time, whether to continue the test, continue the capping as it is now and continue to not have oil going up to the...

Theyre so ridiculous. and baskin robbins is retiring four flavors they say have gone out of fashion. >> well start with the oil spill. its now day 90 of the spill in the gulf. it may not be a spill anymore, it may be capped because when you look at the pictures it does appear that the good news continues to flow, pun intended, theres no oil leaking out that have well. what they are going to do soon is reopen the well and send some oil back up to the ships on top of the ocean which means oil will...

Children from church camp rolled over this morning in kansas. it happened on interstate 35 near wellsville. one child was taken to a hospital by air ambulance, eight others by ground ambulances. and on day 89 of the gulf oil disaster, cautious optimism. there are no signs of any new leaks two days after the oil stopped gushing. bp is continuing its so-called integrity test on the new containment cap. and this is just past the 48-hour deadline that they had set earlier. president barack obama...

Without any leak for the past 48 1/2 hours if all of that works so well, 24 hours after assessement may determine they may leave it as it is corked at the top and rely on the relief wells to go in. what has been one of the main options is testing out the pressure of the well to determine the integrity, whether there are any other sources of leak points. then, the plan was for the most part, to reopen it up, spill a little more oil in the gulf, but reconnect all four lines going up to the four su...

>> an underground blowout really is the most typical kind of blowout that you experience in the oil and gas business. theres really no way to control it since you have a low pressure zone and a high pressure zone communicating. the only way to get this actually killed is to get the relief well drilled and kill it at the source. >> charles hadlock was on earlier. he said theyre getting closer and closer to getting that relief well in place. how many days, weeks do you think were away from that? >...

In. all the american people should rest assured that all of these decisions will be based on the science and whats best for the people of the gulf. all right? >> lets get to our ed lavendera in new orleans. ed, what is the latest on those well integrity tests? >> reporter: hey, tony. well, so far everything that were hearing seems to suggest that things are going well. we heard from bp officials this morning where they tell us that the initial hours, the first 14 hours or so, of the integrity te...

That wouldnt be a good sign, they probably would immediately shut that down, but that hasnt happened yet. thats why theyre sounding so confident about the way things are moving forward. what happens after this integrity test is still very much up in the air and officials havent exactly laid out a plan, at least publicly, about what theyre going to do. one of the options that that will allen talked about, it leads us to believe this is what he think will happen in the coming days. theyll have to ...

Sustainability, how long can this containment cap sustain this situation. that is, being able to work keeping the flow of oil from continuing to flow into the gulf waters. we do know that scientists are monitoring those pressure gauges around the clock, that they have been huddling up in six-hour intervals to kind of compare notes and see how to move forward. the fact that were still seeing these amazing pictures from the bottom of the gulf waters is a good sign, because they had been telling us...