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Debate that romney barely showed up because he had basically ceded all of foreign policy to the president. thats what the polls were showing. but also, its something that you very rarely see in a debate, chris, which is a clean kill. youve got lloyd benson doing it to dan quayle. two or three other examples in the entire history of presidential debates. and this was the perfect one where romney was very well prepared on many other issues, was taken by his staff to a place that he shouldnt have b...

It seemed like in the third debate that romney barely showed up because he had basically ceded all of foreign policy to the president. thats what the polls were showing. but also, its something that you very rarely see in a debate, chris, which is a clean kill. youve got lloyd benson doing it to dan quayle. two or three other examples in the entire history of presidential debates. and this was the perfect one where romney was very well prepared on many other issues, was taken by his staff to a p...

Disaster and today, bp continues its waiting games. those tests could last beyond the 48 hour deadline. >> phil keating is live in louisiana with more. phil, what is the latest from the gulf? >> well, the latest is, this afternoon will mark the 48 hour point after which they will make a decision whether to extend this period of assessment and observation or perhaps stop what theyre doing and allow oil to once again flow up through the cap and all of the pipes, the choke line, as well as the kill...

And right now, we are approaching a critical moment. sometime in the next hour we expect the first formal review by bp and government officials. the thing everybody is watching, pressure readings in the well. that is going to tell us how well the cap appears to be holding. were going to give you the latest on that coming up just ahead. well also check in with anderson cooper down in new orleans throughout most of the story. and then a little bit later one womans heartwrenching plea to president ...

Story? well, the reason why everybody had the story is number one, because we have the video, live cam. the other thing is that b.p. was using the magic of twitter the entire time to update us on what was happening with the leak. therefore, no one had the story. everyone had the story. >> all at once and in fact, if you were looking at your smart phone yesterday at 10:30 a.m., b.p. underscore america twittered we close the kill line. at that point, the only flow going out was the choke line. 12:...

New capping stack. there are only two ways for that to be released because we did not move that middle ram back. it will start going out the kill line and the choke line. we will then close the kill line and start to slowly close the choke line and take the pressure readings at that time as we intended to do. to let you know what happened. this is the choke line off of the capping stack. as you know, this comes out of the assembly and goes up. if you have seen the video, this is that big yellow ...

Long time. >> lets hope and pray that it works. doug suttles is the coo, the chief operating officer, of bp. good luck. we taped that interview earlier with mr. suttles. all right. lets dig deeper right now and further appreciate the time line of what has happened today a and cnns jessica yellin is standing by with more on this part of the story. jessica? >> well, wolf, the oil flow as you remort and doug suttles explains has been shut down in a number of steps, be i we wantut show you the pic...

Well can move forward. they are suspended indefinitely now. those tests are vital. theyll determine whether the gush willing could hold up under extreme pressure once the flow of soil stopped. >> david mattingly has been monitoring all the new developments with us this morning. hes live in new orleans. the hopes were so high this 75-ton cap just a few days ago would be able to finally stop the leak. what went wrong? >> well, this is definitely not what he wee wanted to see this morning. we were ...

Stack which stopped the flow directly out of the top of the capping stack. we then closed the kill line. it left a choke lin. and the way this is set up, the choke line is going to have a variable valve we can close slowly and be able to assess the pressure readings as tkwoe that. in the process of doing that, we discovered there was a leak on the choke line. at that point, we terminated -- we terminated the test that the point so we could determine the cause of the leak and repair that. overnig...

Not sort of fake projects where youre building stuff for no reason. jon: liz, thank you very much, good talking to you. jenna: were starting with a news briefing here in admiral thad allen with an update of whats going on in the gulf. lets listen in: >> consider outcomes, once that was done i gave the order with slight modifications to include some requirements for seismic testing, akao*sing testing, to go ahead and proceed last night. the sequence on how that test proceed was to take the q4000 ...