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Protects you from a lot of that honore all west work more clean this situation with wolf blitzer next, one, cnn we're going out of this world for our last leads is successful test of spacex's starship. the world's most powerful rocket blasted often texas this morning, the booster splash down as planned in the gulf of mexico, firing its engines and making the water fly after a fiery re-entered the spacecraft's splashdown down. in the indian ocean. the two crew members of boeing's starliner spacecraft. meanwhile dock with the international space station. this afternoon after engineers solve some...

Are. now, they can do this without releasing more oil to the surface if this test is successful. >> because the concern is that if you have to use the containment vessels and there is bad weather or tropical storm or hurricane, those ships have the leave, right? >> yes shg, the ships would hav leave, but they could shut the valves again and stop the oil flow when the ships are gone. so essentially they have control of the well at this point in time, and it is still yet to be seen whether or not they will continue to have control. we don't know if there are significant leaks deep in the well, a...

Long time. >> let's hope and pray that it works. doug suttles is the coo, the chief operating officer, of bp. good luck. we taped that interview earlier with mr. suttles. all right. let's dig deeper right now and further appreciate the time line of what has happened today a and cnn's jessica yellin is standing by with more on this part of the story. jessica? >> well, wolf, the oil flow as you remort and doug suttles explains has been shut down in a number of steps, be i we wantut show you the pictures on each step. they cut off the flow, and then started to cut off the valves. this is the fi...