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Close the choke line and take the pressure readings at that time as we intended to do. just 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've seen the video, this is that big yellow device with the curved pipe that goes up with the oil coming out of it. it connects back to the capping stack down here at a flange, and there's an assembly where this meets together. this is where the leakage was discovered. the entire choke assembly was removed and replaced overnight. they are checking this right now ...

Bob cavnar who now writes for his own website, the daily hurricane. bob, thanks for your time. >> happy to be here, keith. >> how possible is it that we're about to see the last drop of oil leaking into the gulf, from this spill, anyway? >> well, i think we're a couple of days from the possibility of that. about an hour ago, they landed what they're calling the capping stack, which is basically a mini blowout preventer on top of the old blowout preventer, and it looks like by the rov feeds that we're looking at that they're latching that on with one of the rovs. >> anything that you've seen in...

Bore that might bring oil or hydro carbons into what we call the geological formation potentially to the sub sea floor. some questions were raised yesterday about the implications of leakage and how that interfaced with the test as we start to shut down the valves and increase pressure in the capping stack. i'll go over that process in a minute. what we might expect, even low probability, high consequence outcomes. as a result of that, we asked bp to go back and give us some more information on the structural strength of certain portions of the casing pipes. they had run down there particularl...

Spill in the gulf of mexico. bob cav nar was an oil industry executive. bob, how did they get it to stop? >> good afternoon, michael. they closed the last valve, the choke valve in just about an hour ago. i was actually watching the feed when the announcement was made. the feed is obviously a little delayed. it was still flowing at that point, but it did stop. i just saw a good shot of the entire stack from the top of the old blowout preventer to the top of the new capping stack. it is indeed shut in. >> we show the feed right now and people can see it at home. it looks a heck of a lot differe...

Could do. >> some practical questions of what exactly they would be asking us to do and what would be our ability to inquire as to, you know, a conversation that might have alleged to have taken place between a private company, a government and another devulg government. >> reporter: bp acknowledges it did talk to the government in 2007 about what it calls the slow progress of the prisoner transfer agreement and that a delay could "have a negative impact on british commercial interests" including its oil exploration. that does raise a lot of questions. tamron? right now thad allen is giving ...