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Place. working with the coast guard, local and state authorities we have an extensive severe weather plan so i'm confident that will work. a week ago today we got the capping stack in place and closed it in. once again, this vessel and this crew played a critical role in that. it has been a week since we've had any new oil flow into the gulf. when you fly over the gulf of mexico, you see a dramatic difference in the last week. to give you some sense of that, the week before we got the capping stack we saw skimming volumes of 25,000 barrels. every day since we have had it on they have dropped. ...

Blowout preventer. are they an indication of methane? they're testing for that. the third problem is a small leak in the flange of the capping stack. that essentially is the bottom of the ceiling cap. and they don't seem too concerned about that. so, the government green lighted this test to go ahead for another 24 hours which takes us to about mid afternoon today. and we'll see if they get another 24 hours. but in the meantime, bp has announced yet another plan b. i call this one plan b to about the 20th power. it is called "static kill" and it is a version of top kill you'll remember. and es...

When the new, more tightly fitting cap placed on the wellhead, a fraction of the amount of oil that escaped to the gulf of mexico for three months escaped in the water. another sign of seepage has been ruled to be not related but there are still great concerns. >> the leakage is occurring located right about here. there is hydrate formation on the side of the capping stack as we move forward. >> admiral allen showing everyone on top of thecaing stack the new leak of oil has been detected. spotted sunday night. the stack has been a critical focus for scientist and engineers and it's all about t...

It was clean and solid and had a nice ring on the top of it and that ring was able to be clamped to this new capping stack that has all of the valves in it. and then all of a sudden this well made aluminum and iron down to a piece of 150,000 pound stack dropped on top of this, bolted together and sealed together, all of a sudden we have the oil coming out the top of this. well, yesterday, and of course today, they started closing the valves, cranking them ever so slowly. they wanted the pressures to stay high so that when the oil finally stopped coming out of the top, there it is, still coming...

Live pictures from what we've been calling the leak cam. as you can see, there is nothing leaking now. so far the capping stack is holding, we presume. otherwise engineers would have started venting oil to relieve the oil. probably relieving some political pressure on the white house, which has take answer lot of fire over the last 80 or so days for it is handling of the crisis. henry joins us now. ed, what are you hearing? >> reporter: earlier today the president was giving a statement on the south lawn of the white house, reacting to the fact that the cap was if place. he told me that he see...