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Hours. president obama was briefed on that and much more in the white house situation room earlier today with the top coast guard homeland security and fema officials on hand. i spoke about all of this a little while ago with the president's man in charge of the gulf oil disaster. and joining us now from new orleans, admiral thad allen, the national incident commander for the u.s. government. admiral, the weather's impact right now, bottom line, how much of a setback is this in dealing with the immediate crisis going on? >> well, wolf, it is going to be a setback to putting in the final casing...

There. but as close as the relief well is now to the well bore, even though it's significantly below where we think there might be a problem, what we've done is the relief well right now is between four and five feet away from the well bore. they need to go down probably another 100 feet before they actually try to do the penetration. they were making arrangements to actually put a casing pipe down there to finish that part of the well bore before they did the penetration. they've pulled back to the last casing pipe. the well bore of the relief well is filled with mud. and we're going to have ...

Else. if we get high pressure readings, that says the wellbore is intact and talk about the casing pipe, and that all relates to how much mud is needed to kill the well down below. >> that makes all of the sense in the world. i get that. the helix producer is collecting oil, good news there. is and winds are out of the south and east, pushing the oil away a bit or providi a bit of a break. >> more importantly, they're light, and things are calm. pretty much any operation that they have to fix a situation or work the situation -- >> reset booms. >> reset booms, controlled burns, skim, all. thos...

If something like that were to happen, could this affect the relief well process. >> i'm glad you asked that, that came up yesterday and there was an assessment done on that. here's what we've done to mitigate the risk. we don't think there's a problem about there, but as close as the relief well is to the bore, even though it's significantly below where we think there might be a problem, what we've done, the relief well is four and 5 feet away from the well bore. they need to go down probably another 100 feet before they actually try and do the penetration, and they were making arrangements t...

Jenna: hi, everybody, i'm jenna lee, welcome to the second hour of "happening now". jon: and i'm jon scott. bp announces it is moving forward on pressure tests of a new 75-ton containment cap sitting on top of the blown-out well. after fixing a leak in that cap today, a cap that can, hopefully, stop the flow of crude that's gushing into the gulf. thad allen explaining the importance of pressure a short time ago. >> if we get very low pressure readings, it'd be the equivalent of putting your thumb over the garden hose and the water's going somewhere else because there's no pressure. high pressu...