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Top stories, pressure testing on that well head in the gulf continues today. workers also searching for possible leaks at three separate areas stretching up to two miles away. scientists want to know if leaks could be causing the low pressure on the new well head cap. in chicago, the corruption trial of former governor rob blagojevich should be interesting as he will testify in his own defense. he was impeached last year amid accusations he tried raffling off the senate seat formerly occupied ...

As a celebrity and also a career that was known for being married eight times. she has, though, been in a wheelchair since 2002, when she had a car accident, but again shes 93 years old. we turn now to the gulf oil disaster on day 90, we are now, and experts with both bp and the government say they are encouraged with the latest news we are getting out of the gulf, encourage many people by that picture that, live picture which shows something very important, nothing, no oil coming out. the pre...

Eight more were then arrested so again you only have 11 still on the run. a priolice officer was killed i the melee and one injured as well. zsa zsa gabor fell out of her bed last night, watching "jeopardy!." she goes for the phone and falls out of her bed. she could need surgery, according to her husband. she is now 93 years old. she has had a series of health problems, including she had a stroke back in 2005 and pretty much been in a wheelchair since a car accident back in 2002. here we ar...

Bp may decide to keep the cap in place or re attaattach a riser to take the oil to surface ships. bp says one of two relief wells is now just feet from intercepting the crippled well. it will allow concrete to be pumped in and seal it inside the earth. there are millions of gallons of oil to clean up. this controlled burnout in the gulf was ten miles northeast of the well site. now to the ground with david mattingly. extending the pressure testing of the cap. is it good or bad? >> reporter: well...

Rose garden 9:30 this morning and the white house -- the president will say, yes, what you see, that is to say, no more natural gas, oil flowing at the moment. but, this is a temporary containme containment strategy fix and the permanent solution is to cap the well and seal it and until that is done the threat of continued oil spill remains. the pressure testing, so far, according to bp has been but what the engineers with bp and the government scientists monitoring the pressure testing, have in...

This is a containment strategy, this is not designed to fix the problem completely. and the president near the end of his remarks in the rose garden today tried to drive that message home. lets take a quick listen. >> there were a lot of reports coming out in the media that seemed to indicate, well maybe this thing is done. we wont be done until we actually know that weve killed the well, and that we have a permanent solution in place. were moving in that direction, but i dont want us to get too...

Turns out that we cant keep the containment cap onto completely stop the oil its going to allow us to capture much more oil and well see less oil flowing into the gulf. jon: senior white house correspondent major garrett is here with more . thats the optimistic side of the story. the president is trying to tamp down public enthusiasm, why? >> reporter: this has been an economic, ecological crisis and also a visual one. the country has, as soon as bp made available a few days after the spill thos...

And kill and it stop it at the source. this is merely an intermediate step to contain the oil pending the finishing the relief wells and plugging the hole. >> reporter: but work on two relief wells, what bp calls the permanent solution, has been suspended while the company does the pressure testing on the containment cap. the man in charge of the $20 billion bp victims fund expects payments to start. >> i am beholden only to the people of the gulf. i work for you. >> reporter: next month, bp tur...

On there, replace it, and now theyre back on track to get this all-important pressure testing of this well going again. theyve got a lot of things theyve got to do now. theyve got to test the seal. theyve got to bring the rovs back online. again, they are back on track. this leak costing them probably about 24 hours in this process, but they are prepared to move forward again. another bit of good news that we found out in the technical briefing was that the oil we saw spewing out in the gulf was...

Into their proper positions, theyre going to be able to move forward once again with the pressure testing. they anticipate this will happen sometime later today, martha. martha: that was what i was going to ask you. i tkpes the biggest question in everyones mind, this picture weve been looking at now for 87 days, when does that picture dramatically change, when do we stop seeing the billowing plumes of oil moving into the water? >> reporter: they anticipate that once this testing gets underway, ...