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If they do go forward and go all 48 hours, that would take us to about midday saturday. then they'll decide whether it ç would be a permanent shut-in opportunity or they would turn it back into a containment cap and send it up to the four vessels on the surface of the gulf of mexico. >> just to be clear, in the event they decide to do this, not as a plug but essentially as another means of funneling oil up to the surface, if they are using it as a containment system to funnel oil to the ships on the surface, they will still have to pull those ships in shore and stop the containment effort in ...

And kill and it stop it at the source. this is merely an intermediate step to contain the oil pending the finishing the relief wells and plugging the hole. >> reporter: but work on two relief wells, what bp calls the permanent solution, has been suspended while the company does the pressure testing on the containment cap. the man in charge of the $20 billion bp victims' fund expects payments to start. >> i am beholden only to the people of the gulf. i work for you. >> reporter: next month, bp turns over the entire claims operation to him. with so many disappointments and failed attempts, the o...

Welcome back. bp says it has capped off that well in the gulf of mexico, and it looks like it's holding. as you can see in these live pictures, no oil is gushing right now. bp stopped the oil flow yesterday afternoon and it is now about halfway through a tense waiting period in which engineers are watching pressure gauges for signs of a leak. even if the new containment cap holds, remember, now, this is only a temporary fix. it's hoped that reliefwells now in the process of being drilled will finally kill that blown-out we will well. and for breaks, nbc's michelle ganzen franzen joins us from ...

Demanding answers: i'm jon scott in for shepard smith on day 88 of our national disaster in the gulf of mexico. tonight, bp reports its new containment cap is holding and there is still no oil gushing into the gulf. we are about halfway through the 4 -hour testing period. the feds say the pressure readings are not quite as high as they would like. in this case high pressure is a good thing. but they are close enough to continue the testing for at least another few hours. after that engineers could decide to call the whole thing off and uncap the well before it possibly causes an even bigger di...

Focuses, contributory negligence. thad allen was supposed to brief reports on a conference call at 3:00 p.m. eastern. that's delayed until 4:30. there were two reasons, one, the national incident commander wants more data from bp on the pressure tests and wants more time to evaluate what the federal government is able to accomplish in the reprieve from the flowing oil. the president says the containment cap may contain up to 80,000 barrels a day. that translates, when you talk about 42 gallons a barrel to 3.3 million gallons every day. for the first time there's a 24-hour reprieve and the skim...