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But with the new cap on now, bp hopes the oil will be fully contained eventually. in the time it takes to secure the new cap, bp told me today, the oil flow will decrease, but it wont be fully stopped until all of those vents are closed, anderson. >> why is it going to take so long before we know if this works or not? >> well, with the cap on, bp now will spend the next 48 hours testing the pressure of the well. and that will start first thing tomorrow morning, they say. bp calls it an integrity...

>> why is it going to take so long before we know if this works or not? >> well, with the cap on, bp now will spend the next 48 hours testing the pressure of the well. and that will start first thing tomorrow morning, they say. bp calls it an integrity test. in this case, high pressure is a good thing if the well maintains its high pressure with the cap on, then that actually means oil and gas arent leaking out in other areas of the well casing. low pressure would mean that there are other leaks...

The man leading the federal governments response to the gulf oil disaster. still in the middle of an updated briefing from houston. retired ghost kaurd admiral thad allen thld describing what you would have to say is a pretty deliberate procedure being taken this afternoon to close five openings allowing oil to pour out of the wellbore. several lines have to be sealed off, the stacking cap line, the kill line, the choke line, the bore line. i think there was one other. all of these lines have to...

The integrity test today? >> we will take the pressure readings when we close the choke valve, and that will be done slowly to see if there are pressure changes as we start to restrict the flow and we dont do anything prematurely. it will also tell us something about the flow, empirical data we havent had to date. lets not get wrapped up in the six hours. thats a horizon we look at for the pressure readings. >> could you close down that vent today? >> no. the capping stack -- all three ways for ...

The united states as iran alleges? and the details of the passport dispute that has a lacrosse team stranded in new york. we want to welcome in the viewers of the united states and around the world. im wolf blilts tzer, and you an im wolf blilts tzer, and you an "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com the next few hours are among the most critical in the gulf oil disaster as the crews begin an integrity test of the new cap now in place on top of the gushing oil well. possib...

About was the second piece of drill pipe that they discovered stuck inside the blowout prev t preventer, so they had to get this new spool, landing spool over those two. and that went really well on saturday. they bolted those down yesterday and they landed the b.o.p. stack just a little while ago. so its gone well. >> if this stack is not used to funnel gas to the surface, but just caps the flow, does that mean we ultimately never get the hard number, the kind that bp cannot fight in court in t...

There. but they did confirm that the cap is, in fact, on top of that well. i want to bring in jonathan serrie. is he live on scene down there. jonathan, this means they can begin tomorrow with these pressure tests to see, in fact, how stable this connection is going to be, right? >> indeed. they want to test the integrity both of the cap and also of the well itself. so they are going to be shutting several valves. they will see if any other leaks appear within the well. they also will see how th...

About this shut-in integrity test theyre going to plan in the morning because of the down hole damage that weve talked about for the last several weeks. >> and thats where the danger lies. if they cap the well and the pressures too great, it could actually cause a rupture somewhere else. at this hour, bp is doing well integrity tests to determine whether the well itself can withstand the pressure if they dont suck up all that oil on to the ships on the surface and instead contain it. democratic ...

Where we can contain all the oil and produce it, those are two pretty good outcomes either way. ive asked bp for plans on how to do an integrity test and hopefully decide to move on that later today. >> commander, you actually urged bp to do what they are doing right now quicker than they were planning to do because you had a weather window that was opportune for this moment? >> looking at the weather patterns, we saw that there was a real long distance between troughs that were forming out in t...

Will you know later today whether or not thats actually been a success? >> the cap is staged right now. we have to do a seismic baseline run before we actually start it because we want to understand what the sea floor is like in case there is any change to that after we start cranking down the pressure. once the caps on we will slowly close the valves and see if it can tolerate the entire pressure of the well bore. that will tell us a lot. we need to know the pressure inside that cap to know whe...