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(voice 2) theyre pinging more targets... (voice 3) isolate... prevent damage... (voice 2) got em. (voice 3) great exercise guys. lets run it again. lets check your top stories now here on cnn. day 87 of the gulf of mexico oil disaster. bp placed the leaking pipe and hopes to resume an important well test today -- they replaced a leaking pipe today. the integrity test is intended to determine the wells pressure to see if a new container cap can stop the flow of oil. the product safety commiss...

Officials that had some concerns about the process and then by a leaking pipe. but they have dealt with those issues and now they have started this test. and essentially, its a pressure test to see if this cap can withstand the pressure of the well. they have shut down the surface containment systems. they are going to be shutting down the valves on that cap. and then theyre going to be looking at pressure readings. and as you heard thad allen mention in that sound bite, they want to see high pr...

Well, and where i am at the port of new orleans auditorium, admiral thad allen will speak within the hour, giving an update about the relief well progress, specifically, addressing the questions of look, if were only maybe 12 feet away from the actual leaking pipe, but 300 feet down from where they want to intercept, why not just cut across and hit the 12 feet across now. hes going to explain why that is actually not the smartest way to do this. thats coming up in the hour. martha: well wait for...

Long-term solution relies on drilling relief wells and killing it. as a neuro surgeon, its annoying when someone says it isnt brain surgery, but its close. tom foreman is here with the details. tom? >> thanks, sanjay. drilling down. look at this as we dive down here and contemplate what were talking about. youre going through all of this, all in the hopes of hitting something about the size of a dinner plate. thats how big the leaking pipe is all the way down where theyre trying to hit it. thats...

And hope for a good-news outcome on this. the drilling of the relief well represents the best hope of stopping the gulf oil leak. weve been telling you that for months. but its a process with a lot of technical difficulties. >> the whole idea of drilling down through a mile of owe slun water and then two miles of rock and sand and seabed, look as we dive down here and contemplate what were talking about. youre going through all of this, all in the hopes of getting something about the size of a...

79 days. theyve tried a giant containment box, top kill, top hat. theyve been planning all week to hook up a third tanker to siphon off more oil. but choppy seas is stopping that from happening as well. the only real hope of a long-term solution relies on drilling relief wells and killing it. as a neuro surgeon, its annoying when someone says it isnt brain surgery, but its close. tom foreman is here with the details. tom? >> thanks, sanjay. drilling down. look at this as we dive down here and co...

Killing it. as a neuro surgeon, its annoying when someone says it isnt brain surgery, but in this case, its close. tom foreman is here with the details. tom? >> thanks, sanjay. drilling down. look at this as we dive down here and contemplate what were talking about. youre going through all of this, all in the hopes of hitting something about the size of a dinner plate. thats how big the leaking pipe is all the way down where theyre trying to hit it. thats a massive technological challenge. so wh...

Spill to reach a trickle. were all waiting for that point. what some would call downplaying has not been exception. take a look. >> somewhere between 1,000 and 5,000 barrels. >> youre sticking with approximately 5,000 barrels a day? >> i think thats a good range. i dont know the precise number, but i think its somewhere around that number and thats been both our estimate and that of the unified command that government agencies are working with. >> 5,000 barrels a day, weve always said it was an ...

Government agencies are working with. >> 5,000 barrels a day, weve always said it was an estimate all of us came together to make. >> for a long time, he was sticking with 1,000 barrels. the last three of those intervi interviews were done shortly after bp released video, video they had been looking at for weeks of the leaking pipe. mr. suttles was talking of that 5,000 barrel oil immediately after a purdue university professor looked at a 30-second clip of it and estimated it at 30,000 barrels,...

Heck, well see you in court. probably not going to get there but those are some of the issues. with prospect of drilling relief well still months away, some say bp is ignoring a much quicker solution. christopher brownfield is a former nuclear submarine officer saying they should blow up the well burying the leaking pipe under tons of rock. a nuclear scientists and not advocating nuclear but conventional explosives to fix this. explain. >> im more of a generalist than anything else. i have wor...