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With us. they told us 24 hours and we're 18 hours into it. what are we watching for in these critical 30 hours coming up. >> they're looking for information on pressure. the best analogy i heard to describe this process is it's like putting your thumb over a garden hose and, essentially, what they're trying to measure is whether or not that cap can withstand the pressure of the garden hose, the well. if they find that it can, they can use it as a temporary stop gap to shut in that well until the presumable position which a month from completion is finished. it cannot withstand the pressure of ...

Cap is on. the data is not all still in and it has to be interpreted by the scientists. but here's the good news that i think everybody needs to understand. even if it turns out that we can't maintain this cap and completely shut off the flow of oil, what the new cap allows us to do is to essentially attach many more containment mechanisms so that we're able to take more oil up to the surface, put it on ships, it won't be spilling into the gulf. the final solution to this problem is getting the relief wells and there is no doubt that we made progress as a consequence of this new cap fitting on...

Virginia's democratic governor joe mansion will temporarily replace the late senator robert burden. 36-year-old goodwin served from 2005 to 2009 as chief counsel. goodwin left office last january to go back into private practice as an attorney. he will hold the seat until november when the general election will be held for a permanent replacement to serve the remaining two years of senator byrd's term. governor mansion recently said that it is, quote, highly likely that he will run for that seat. and now to a welcome sight on this day 88 of the gulf oil disaster. no oil is gushing from that ...

Now they're to go that well integrity test. for the first time in 87 days, we saw no oil going into the gulf of mexico. that does not mean this is stopped. because every six hours, government scientists and bp engineers are getting together in the houston command center and doing their calculations and deciding whether or not they're going to go forward with this test. if they go forward and go all 48 hours, that would take us to midday saturday. then they'll decide whether it would be a permanent shut-in opportunity or turn it back into a containment cap and send it up to the four vessels on ...

What a difference a day can make. this was the scene yesterday, oil billowing out of bp's ruptured well. but today the waters clear. a 75-ton containment cap stopping the leak. bp is testing the well head. early indications are everything is holding steady. but this is not a permanent solution. folks along the coast have mixed emotions today. >> it's good they got it stopped. now they have to focus on the cleanup. >> i live 10 minutes from where the oil is and it could come into my home, my property. megyn: bp has benadryling relief well -- bp has been drilling relief wells. that work is expec...