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The so-called integrity test has started. you can see the live pictures coming in, and they are beginning to shut down some of the valves that have allowed the oil to spew out. these are critical hours right now. thad allen the incident commander explaining a while ago that the government after a 24-hour delay feels confident that bp knows what it is doing and the test has started. every six hours they will reassess and see what is going on and they hope that the process going to be complete wit...

Family whenever we went to new york, the boys, to sean. he was just -- he -- i tell you, theres two sides to him. he could fire someone in a second. we prevented him from firing someone. there was a security guard, wouldnt letmy two boys on the field. of course, they didnt have passes -- >> larry, thank you. >> larry: he went up -- >> were out of time. larrys back tomorrow. time for anderson cooper and "ac 360." were live in port-au-prince keeping them honest. thousands of people are spending ye...

>> reporter: do you ever see yourself going back to the life you were living? >> no. >> reporter: because why? >> i have too much to lose. taking a look now at some of the stories making headlines today, the completion of the new oil cap operation is on hold right now as bp and the government review testing procedures for the new cap. but a bp source tells us the national incident commander thad allen is expected to give the go-ahead for the integrity test that could come at any moment. a bl...

Started and we will see what happens. what we are going do is to, chad, i dont want you to go away, because we want to do a before and after of the one, top of the cap, and show the viewers the oil that was coming out and now you can see it is not coming out, meaning the test has started. chad? >> well, something, and we were almost in too much of a hurry yesterday to hope that the test was happening, but this is what admiral allen said would happen if the test is going, so we are only going fro...

Your money today really will pay off. that is the good, the bad and the ugly of it all. be sure, watch your money to get a better breakdown this weekend and every weekend saturdays, 1:00 eastern, sundays 3:00 eastern right here on cnn. let me give you a look now at some of the stories today making headlines. the completion of the new oil cap operation is on hold right now. as bp and the government review testing procedures for the contraption. this is the so-called integrity test. theyre mea...

In the middle the oil is not coming out of the big black pipe in tid manile anymore coming out of other valves and places, yes, but we know that this is the first indication that the integrity test had started from the mouths of the -- from the bp people, this now is taking place just as they thought so. and now, even as we look at it, where the oil was leaking out, the one yellow pipe, that is the kill, and the choke pipes and i even believe some of the oil, the amount of oil has lessened just ...

>> reporter: no. in fact, its still really hard to get answers. i will give it to them that they hold two briefings a day, two conference calls, 7:30 in the morning, 2:30 in the afternoon to update people. when it comes to 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, at night, we want to keep our viewers up to date, i called bp again, they said, we cant tell you whether or not that integrity test, as theyre calling it, has started. at 9:30 before air we get an e-mail saying it hasnt started. between all those hours betwee...

Casing be damaged? and that is what we are examining with the experts right now to make sure that we dont believe that is the case, and to confirm that, if we did think it could happen, we might not proceed with the test. so that is what the teams are studying, as we speak. >> i dont have to tell you how anxiously everyone is awaiting the results of the test, and hopefully the day when you can close these valves and shut that thing down. here is my question, if you knew at approximately what we ...

To our "wordplay" now. today, we are talking about integrity tests. thats what theyre doing in the gulf right now, working with the new containment cap. integrity, the definition sz sound unimpaired or perfect condition. but arent necessarily looking for the well to be in perfect condition. they just want to know if it can handle the pressure of a better cap. they want to know if there are other problems along the line before they seal it up. the integrity test could take anywhere from 6 to 48 h...

>> reporter: right. it is interesting, too, because early on in the day, as many of the briefings as we had originally started to have started the integrity test tuesday morning and it has been delayed and delay and woke up this morning experiencing the same delay with all of the briefings, but today, the bp officials sounded much more confident an felt like they were ready to move ahead. so i imagine that they were ready to get going with all of this. >> ed lavendara, standby, because we will c...