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You've been talking about, we're watching that. essentially as admiral allen says, they believe they could go either that containment cap moves into place and presuming that everything continues to work according to plan, that that would either cap off and there would be no more oil flow, probably at least 48 hours away from knowing whether or not that indeed will be the case. or if it does continue to work and some flow continues to come out, that they would move these vessels into place on the surface of the water that would help collect that. we'll see if that works. of course, there could ...

Well area. >> eric: so they took the old cap off, and then they're going to put the new cap on, but that means that oil is still gushing out before they get the new cap on. what are they trying to do to contain that? >> reporter: that's right. potentially 5 million gallons could be leaked as a result of the operation. federal officials, though, signed off on it believing that the long-term gain will outweigh the short-term risk. b.p. says that there are more than 500 skimmer vessels in the gulf of mexico, conducting oil recovery operations. 46 of those skimmers in the immediate site of the lea...

The vents on the side. the plan is to go down here to the bottom where they will take -- let me turn on the telestration here for a moment. they will take this cap at the bottom, and they are going to take the existing cap off, and they have a any cap which is much tighter fitting and put it on. for a little while, the oil will spew out. now, he said not all of the oil and the reason he said that is because right now they have one line coming off of the cap to a ship up top and that smip is receiving all sorts of oil from it. and they have another line coming out of the side from one of the ve...

Day three is going to start this hour. but, let's begin with the worst oil we've seen on florida's shore. oil globs stretching for miles along those normally beautiful pensacola beaches. take a look at what washed up on an eight-mile beach of sand. this is not just tar balls but has the potential to devastate tourism in the short term. a large section of gulf waters are back open for fishing and the largest area south of mississippi. oil was never spotted there, but the feds had closed those waters as a precaution to make sure seafood was safe. now, bp has put the lid back on the gushing oil...

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