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Pressure reading. so its either going to be a huge success or it could be a real disaster. >> bret: steve, as a.b. said, the administration, the president seem to learn from the initial effort when thad allen came out and said they thought that this had stop and they were successful with the first top hat. its not the case now. they are waiting to see how this is going. >> yeah. and theyre smart to do that for the reasons that charles points to. we all know that if they want to take credit, if t...

Restrict the flow that. will make sure we dont do anything prematurely if were getting variations of the pressure reading but it will tell us about the the fellow, the empirical data. jon: all right. do you think youve got a challenging job? for the last 85 days, more or less, that man, admiral thad allen of the u.s. coast guard has been in charge of trying to cap the leak, that leaking oil well at the bottom of the gulf of mexico. he says that they have lowered that new cap, and the latest atte...

If the pressure is low at the top of the well, does that indicate that oil is flowing out through some other point of the well and, if so, what are the theories on where it is escaping? >> thats exactly what we are going to try to determine from the pressure. one could make the case that there is something, theres some structural integrity issues with the casing and the well board itself. i dont think we know that until we take the pressure readings and see where that information takes us. it is...

Anne thompson is nbcs chief environmental affairs correspondent and maybe no longer a permanent resident of venice, louisiana. they will be giving you voting rights by november, and you may get a tax bill. >> you know theyre going to make me pay taxes. >> absolutely. okay, ann. where are we? we know theyre in this testing phase to see if sealing this off is a permanent solution, i say permanent, the solution and until the relief well goes down. where do things stand? >> reporter: well, right now...

That will controlled by a remotely operated vehicle which will slowly close it incrementally. this is very, very important because we want to measure the amount of closure radially by turns of that choke line valve by an rov simultaneously taking pressure reading. the goal is to slowly dlees down and understand the changes in pressure as we are closing it until that choke line is closed. at that point, there will be no hydrocarbons exiting from the capping stack and well go into a period where w...

Bottom like, earthquakes arent for californians anymore. lets start with the latest on bps efforts to seal off the oil leak for good. anne thompson is nbcs chief vimplt environmental affairs correspondent. maybe no longer a permanent resident of venice, louisiana. they will be giving you voting rights by november, and you may get a tax bill. >> you know theyre going to make me pay taxes. >> absolutely. okay, ann. where are we? we know theyre in a testing phase to see if sealing this off is a p...

Anne thompson is nbcs chief environmental affairs correspondent and maybe no longer a permanent resident of venice, louisiana. they will be giving you voting rights by november, and you may get a tax bill. >> you know theyre going to make me pay taxes. >> absolutely. okay, ann. where are we? we know theyre in this testing phase to see if sealing this off is a permanent solution, i say permanent, the solution and until the relief well goes down. where do things stand? >> well, right now national ...

Where they thought it would be after 24 hours. ideally, they would like it to be closer to 7,500 pounds per square inch. so why is it sticking at this 6,700 mark? there are two theories. one is because so much oil has already been spilled into the gulf, that there is actually less oil in the well than they thought. and thats one reason behind the lower pressure reading. the other theory is, and this is the scary theory, that there is a leak below the seafloor. now, the -- they have done seismic ...