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The story is unfolding as we speak. the past hour said they had given b.p. the green light for pressure test after a delay, and they needed the time to get assurances from scientists and b.p. that the cest would not do any damage. look at the sea under the spilled site. it will put it on the new cap and then measuring the oil pressure building up inside the cap. high pressure would suggest the cap is holding back the oil flow. low pressure will indicate a leak somewhere else in the well. but its...

Breaking news changes everything on "studio b." first day 87 of our national disaster in the golf. if all goes well oil could stop flowing by date 89. were heard a lot in the last few months. they say maybe but its a if. engineers started a pressure test on the well in the last hour. they have to find out what happens when they shut the flow of the oil off. why? why do they need to take the risk they might not be able to prevent another blowout with a blowout preventer? even if it holds, new lea...

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...

Megyn: we are just getting word bp has started critical work in the gulf of mexico. this is a critical pressure test its performing on the blownout well. this could be the beginning of the final steps of getting this thing capped. day 87, hard to believe. a jury is deliberating at this hour in the john stamos extortion case. a michigan couple accused much trying to swindle $680,000 from stamos threatening to sell photos of him they say show him with strippers and using cocaine as he shared a hot...

We can fix that. i want to go to venice, louisiana, where mara has been following this throughout. mara, what are you hearing there? >> im just tuning into your broadcast. i didnt hear what your previous guest may have stated. but this is the first time in the life of this crisis that they have been able to stop fresh oil from spilling into the waters of the gulf of mexico. regardless of its permanence, it is symbolically significant. s that the first time since the explosion happened on april 2...

Delay. good evening, jonathan. >> hi, bret. the story is unfolding as we speak. the past hour said they had given b.p. the green light for pressure test after a delay, and they needed the time to get assurances from scientists and b.p. that the cest would not do any damage. look at the sea under the spilled site. it will put it on the new cap and then measuring the oil pressure building up inside the cap. high pressure would suggest the cap is holding back the oil flow. low pressure will indicat...

Underwater camera, you can surmise that the choke and kill lines and the pressure has not started in earnest. >> so once they close the valves, presumably if all goes as everyone hopes, we wont see anymore oil leaking from the top. the pressure test, brian. >> right. >> do we know how long that test goes on for? >> well, they said it could take as little as six hours to get results from it, but could take as long as 48 or more hours. this is really unchartered ground for a lot of the researchers...

Criticism for everything here. including this idea, saying this sounds like a very low-tech solution to a very high-tech and very dangerous problem. but the plan is, to inject that in there, clog up the pipes, make sure that this oil stops completely, until they get their wells drilled to cap it permanently. >> david mattingly in grand isle, louisiana, thanks, david. right before that oil in the gulf exploded into flames last month, bp knew there was a problem with the well but did not halt pr...

Congressman, henry waxman, b.p. officials privately admit that the well fail aid critical pressure test just hours before it erupted and went into flames. it suggested that natural gas could have been sweep into the system which could have been a cocktail for catastrophe. information reviewed describes an internal debate between transocean and b.p. personnel about how to proceed. what we do know is that shortly before 10:00 p.m. just two hours after well operations apparently resumed, gas surg...

In the gulf. bp has not been able to stop the leak, but the company could be getting close to trying another capping of it. as we learn, there were problems before the rig exploded last month, killing 11 men. david lee miller joins us live from venice, louisiana, so what are we learning new about the investigation, david? >> well, you know, jon, success has many fathers but failure is an orphan and no more is that true than in this ongoing investigation. bp, the operator of the rig, the subcontr...