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The live picture shows the oil coming out again. bring us up to date on how this is going. >> reporter: savannah, i got off of a technical briefing with the senior vice president for bp and he says they plan to start doing that well integrity test around midday today. now, you still see the oil gushing but once they start that test, you will see them shut off the flow of the oil. the oil is coming out in several places. it is actually going to the surface and being contained through the choke and kill lines on the sides of the blowout preventer. q-4000 and "helix producer." the lines will be s...

Patient people in tv. starting the show 37 seconds after the hour. chuck and is a van yeah, batch them now. the bp live feed keeping some hope alive this morning. will the ceiling cap finally work to stop the oil? and pick your poll poison. the latest numbers of voters on the lawsuit against arizona and the new health care law. it's july 13th, 2010. i'm chuck todd. >> good morning. i'm is a van yeah guthrie. we are going to start with the gulf and something they have not had in abundance lately. hope. any time now bp is expected to begin testing that tighter containment cap placed over the...

To the florida's east coast. they're the first that they're planning to relocate. on the heels of that let's go to anne thompson. good morning to you. what's the latest? >> reporter: hi, alex, we just received a technical briefing from bp. so far, so good. things are going according to plan. they've removed the cap. they've removed the six bolts that were holding a flan j in place. that is off, and so work continues. that's the good news. the bad news is in order to put this system in that's going to do a better job of containing the oil, bp says it must first let more oil, in fact, much mor...

They have tried, but they have tried quite a few things. this is a ceiling cap that will replace the existing cap and the existing cap as we know can recover about 23,000 barrel as day. the new cap would increase that to 50,000 barrels a day, they hope. >> so, before you get too excited, experts warn the only real solution to stop the bushing rig is the relief wells that are still being drilled. s well, on to afghanistan now, six u.s. service members were killed today in eastern areas of the country. cnn has more from kabul, afghanistan. >> reporter: six service members were killed in afghanis...

>> reporter: they were more optimistic when the day began. they had hoped to start the well integrity test, chris, which is where they'll slowly shut off the flow of oil. if you're looking at the cap, you can see there's a big plume of black oil coming through the new ceiling cap. what they're going to do is slowly close down all the valves and take pressure readings along the way to determine just how much pressure is coming out. when they figure out how much pressure is inside that cap, they say that will tell them what kind of shape the well itself is actually in. if there's high pressure, ...