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It's bp following the pressure. bp with the remote operating vehicles on the bottom that's actually visually scanning the area, watching for any signs of seepage up from the ocean floor, watching for any bubbles of perhaps methane coming up. also doing sonic testing, acoustic testing to see if there's some oil detected, some movement they may not be able to see visually. they're also conducting seismic testing to check sort of like an mri sort of the ocean floor to see if there's any place where a water down there around the well site might be getting displaced by oil. so they're watching all ...

Line? and, secondly, there seems to be recurring questions as to what this solution -- why wasn't this solution considered earlier in the process? >> first of all, i would say we're probably -- the relief well is a little over 100 feet above the proposed intersection point, but they are pulling the bit back to the last cased section where they have the pipe in. there's another section they're going to put pipe in. they are going to withdraw, got the rest of that wellbore filled with mud all of the way down and we're just going to sit there until we get a couple hours of testing to make sure th...

O'clock six, 24, or 48 hours, and at that point we will have a better in order not only the pressure, it will tell us something about the condition of the well bore itself and ultimately tell us manager about the flow rate which today has been based on estimates, based on the digitical imagery, acoustic testing and so forth. so a consequential day, somewhere in the afternoon, we will start the technical team, it's being assembled. after this press conference i'll be meeting with secretary kh*u from the department of energy, martha mcnu it utt from the geological survey, tom hunter from the wil...

Good morning. >> good morning, tony. an historic vote expected to begin in a few moments. this stt bill that is supposed to reform wall street. it's supposed to be the answer to the scary days we saw almost two years ago when the u.s. economy was teetering on a cliff and so much of the economic pain that americans have felt since. this is the final hurdle for this mainly democratic passed bill. bp's latest effort to stop the oil gusher in the gulf appears to be on track. day 87 and testing on that new well cap is expected to get under way this afternoon. we expect a briefing from admiral tha...