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Through here. so kind of give you a sense of what to look for in the coming hours. say around 2:00 eastern time, this test started. so i suspect if everything goes the way weve been told, about 8:00 tonight, they will get the first pressure readings and start comparing notes. so remember, this is a 48-hour test. at 8:00, it doesnt mean it will last 48 hours. they have said that if they get some really bad readings, they can shut this down at any point. if those pressure readings are not where th...

Kill is the way to go which is what the relief well will be classified as. >> so how fearful should we be about the structural integrity of that entire well? i doubt that its degrading at this point. but lets say if we put a big valve on top of the blowout preventer and turned it shut, that would put a tremendous amount of back pressure on to that casing, well casing. and that might be a bad idea at this point. >> i suspect it would be. all right. thank you for your expertise. thanks for the wor...

Over daily oversight of the companys response in the gulf of mexico. hayward will hand over control of gulf coast operations to robert dudley whos been bps managing director since 2009. meantime, bp says one of two relief wells its drilling to finally stop the gushing oil is now within 200 feet of that blown out well. nbcs charles hadlock joins us live from louisiana. what more can you tell us about that developing story? >> reporter: this relief well is now about 10,000 feet below the floor of ...

Way to go which is what the relief well is classified as. >> and how fearful should we be about the structural integrity of that entire well? >> well, i think -- i doubt that it is degrading at this point, but that if, lets say if we put a big valve on top of the blowout preventer and drilled it shut, that would put a tremendous amount of pressure on the well casing and that might be a bad idea at this point. >> i suspect it would be. steven wereley, thank you for your expertise and thank you fo...

In 2008, cabbott oil and gas drilled a well 1,000 feet from his demick, pennsylvania. a month later his water well was contaminated. >> my daughter would get in the shower before school and shed have to lay outen the floor and thought she would pass out because of methane in water. >> they cited cabbott for a faulty well casing that allowed gas to contaminate the aqua for. cabbott supply fresh water to the neighbors they settled with the state for $4.1 million. >> we believe that america does ne...

Plug up the well thats been busted for good. whats the latest? >> reporter: they did the static kill this week that they poured thousands of pounds of heavy mud into the top of the blow out preventer and sealed it with cement. that effectively killed the well. but to be sure, the coast guard wants bp to perform the bottom kill. that basically is the same procedure except that the bottom of the well, 13,000 feet below the floor of the gulf of mexico. the relief well is now within about 30 feet of...

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And frank as well. so we know that bp officials have been saying throughout the day that they felt comfortable about moving forward, that this was ultimately a decision they say by federal government officials and thad allen in particular to move forward and weve been expecting various technical briefings not only from bp folks but also from thad allen that have been slowly delayed and pushed back throughout the day so were monitoring thad allens appearance here in the new orleans area and we an...

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Bp step up its game in monitoring the ocean floor. so what is bp saying about whats seeping from the see floor. >> -- sea floor. >> for the fifth straight day no oil is leaking from the well head at the bottom of the gulf of mexico. but this doesnt mean that this drama on in the gulf is over. something is seeping about two miles away from the well head, but what they dont know is what it is. and they have asked bp to continue monitoring the well and they can keep it capped as they continue to mo...