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Preventer, it was there, it was not a good seal. they came out, took the bolts out and took it away. then they brought in a new one, a new top. 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 t...

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...

Stand. at first it can look pretty complicated. once upon a time, there was one ship, two ships out there. now there is a whole bunch of stuff going on. ignore everything except what i point to. this is the basics. this down here is the key. this is where all the work is going on, where the capping stack, where for a moment we've seen a pause in what's going on. what they will be doing is they will be reopening the lines that lead up to two ships on the surface. you have the q4000 and the helix producer. they want to find out if they can contain some oil but they also need to find out what's g...

Stop? >> good afternoon, michael. they cloegsed the last valve, t choke valve in, just about an hour ago. i was actually watching the feed when the announcement was made, and the feed is obviously 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, and it is indeed shut in. >> we just showed the feed right now and people can see it at home. it looks aç heck of a lot different than it has looked the last 87 days. whatever the measure that finally caused the oil to stop, is it so...