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Seven days from now, the entire replacement will be done. once they finish unbolting the flange, they go into a process where they take the actual permanent seal, the capping stack, and it's a complicated maneuver. you'll see a lot of activity by the underwater robot on the sea floor. you can see a lot of activity in the coming days. it's going to be crucial. >> vivian, i'm probably asking dumb dumb questions. it's confusing to me given i haven't seen this process happen before. few of us have. when we say the removing of the six bolts would take until tomorrow, why are we seeing at the top po...

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Accommodating of racist memories. finally, i'll tell you why i think the claim the new black panthers intimidated people into voting for barack obama makes no sense. bob cavnar was an oil industry executive. bob, how did they get it to stop? >> good afternoon, michael. they closed the the last involve, the choke valve just about an hour ago. i was actually watching the feed when the announcement was çmad. 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 to...

It's actually been a pretty dramatic several days now for this operation has stopped and started a couple of times. here's the deal, bp hopes this new cap would either hold all the oil inside kind of like a stopper or if there's too much pressure the oil will be funneled through lines to big ships. you're seeing this out under water because bp says they're using dispersants in that area again. bob kapnar has 30 years experience in the oil and gas industry and it could be hard for somebody who is not a professional to wrap their head around what has happened in the last couple hours. break it d...

We've had a number of conversations and early this afternoon i briefed the president and members of the cabinet on the way forward and at this time will be releasing an order to bp to proceed with the well integrity test but we gave them some additional direction and we did this to make sure that we were taking due care and in some cases maybe an over abundance of caution to make sure we didn't do reversible harm to the well bore as we proceeded forward. what we are going to do when bp is ready and these procedures will start shortly, we will start to increase the pressure in the capping stack...