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Night thinking, my god, they finally have got a plan. they are going to maybe cap this off. maybe take the oil up into the ships and stop the leak. what happened? >> yeah, chris, youre not the only one. you know, there were very high expectations that for the first time in almost three months, they could stop fresh oil from flowing into the waters of the gulf. they put the new cap in place on earlier this week, and the plan was for them to start integrity testing of the well yesterday, and then ...

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Received from bp tonight agreeing to allow so-called integrity testing to begin, to see if the blown-out well can handle the high pressures of shutting down the flow of oil within it. crude still gushing into the gulf at this hour. admiral allen saying in tonights briefing that the government gave its permission for testing to begin after a 24-hour delay, satisfied that bps latest scheme does not raise undue risks that outweigh the potential reward. testing to be conducted in stages. bp to slowl...

The coast guard and bp all of these weeks before this operation was undertaken. >> well, industry veteran bob cavnar of thedailyhurricane.com and "huffington post." as always, thanks, bob, if not for the outcomes, at least for the information. >> great to talk to you, keith. >> for more on the so-called integrity testing as well as the integrity of the blowout preventers, lets turn now to ed markey, chairman of the democratic committee. thank you for your time tonight, sir. >> glad to be here. >...

To us once again what they are worried about could go wrong. >> reporter: well, they need to just by the name of the test. integrity testing. essentially what theyre going to do in this test is close off all of the valves. you can imagine how intense the pressure with all of this oil shooting out into the gulf of mexico. we are talking about intense, intense pressure. when they cap that, all that pressure is kind of contained in there and they need to make sure that the cap that theyve put on th...

This was happening right across the border from el paso, texas. one security expert says this could be actually a turning point in the drug war. lets turn back now to day 89 of the gulf oil disaster. bp has installed a new cap on that well, as you know. it was in place on thursday. this came after a couple of days of delays but still they wanted to make sure they were doing this right. bp expects now to continue with this integrity testing. so right now no oil is coming out, the thing is cappe...

Gulf. were joined from venice, louisiana. thank you, mara, for joining us. you know, i went to bed last night thinking, my god, they finally have got a plan. they are going to maybe cap this off. maybe take the oil up into the ships and stop the leak. what happened? >> yeah, chris, youre not the only one. you know, there were very high expectations that for the first time in three months they could stop fresh oil from flowing into the waters of the gulf. they put the new cap in place on earlier ...

Will happen over the next 48 hours as soon as that cap is in place. they will begin a series of what they describe as integrity testing to determine whether or not that cap will essentially be able to do what they hope it does. essentially, that is one of two things, whether it will be able to cap and hold all of the oil inside of it or if that doesnt work whether they will be able to continue siphoning up what they suspect might be all of the oil into vessels on the surface of the water. so wer...

Aliens in utah, so specific, it lists 200 children and six pregnant women and their due dates. >> our towns are terrorized by this list. and maybe by this -- be afraid, be very afraid. >> excuse me? what did you say? glenn beck doesnt want to be president of the united states. >> she the dean of women at beck u.? all the news and commentary now on "countdown." good evening from new york. the obama administrations apparent concern was that merely testing the new well cap could cause so much p...

Drilling had been completed on april 17th. and the well had been sealed with casing and cement. >> halliburton performed the cement job according to the well owners direction. we understand that neither the drilling contractor nor the well owner performed integrity testing on that cement job and a subsequent event caused that incident. >> it was quite a show to hear it from the president and others. the president imhadself also said the american people could not have been impressed by that displ...