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Ruptured well has been captured. it has been recovered through the containment cap, skimming operations and controlled burns. now, 25% has evaporated or dissolved and that's considered a lowball estimate, by the way. 24% has been dispersed, broken into smaller drop let's, either by natural means or the chemical solvents. that leaves 26% of all the oil that has poured from that leak. it has either washed up on shore or still remains at sea, either on the surface of that -- of the ocean or, of course, beneath it. now cnn's jim acosta is joining us live from new orleans. so taking all of this int...

Different from the top kill they tried once before. >> it is different, because this time, there is a cap, if i can show you one of my crude renderings here on this draw/erase board. they have the cap on top of the ruptured well. that's the difference. before the top kill, there was no cap and so they're trying to force the heavy fluid and mud into the rupture well without any kind of containment. that's different this time around with the static kill. and bp just wrapped up a technical briefing just a few moments ago, randy, where they talked about a test that we haven't heard a whole lot abo...

Has been building under it. >> reporter: well, you know, this is sort of the difference between the static kill and the top kill. during the top kill there wasn't the containment cap on top. they were able to keep pressures monitored by the engineers watching this. with the cap in place, they will be able to pump the mud and cement through the blownout preventer and down into the well during this procedure. and as the procedure is going on, those engineers are going to be taking pressure readings minute by minute throughout the course of the night, throughout the next 24 to 48 hours, and they ...

>> they tried so many things, the top kill, the top hat, the junk shot, you name it. why are they so confident this time it will do it? >> they're confident this time around, because they feel like unlike top kill, they've got that cap in place so this cup at youred well is under control, they feel at the moment. and they have been taking pressure readings, so right now, the pressure read attention -- and i don't want to bore you with the details, but the pressure readings are such that they feel like this whole ruptured well is really under control at the moment. the weather, they also said, ...

Exactly how this is working. >> reporter: well, i'm an acosta, not a picasso, but i'm doing my best down here. it helps to get your arms and your brain around what they're doing down here to look at it firsthand. what they are going to be doing over the next 24 to 48 hoyers, keeping in mind that these pressure readings continue to come back well, we are going to start seeing that heavy mud starting to pump down towards the containment cap, and it's going to go right into that containment cap on top of the ruptured well and down into the ruptured well and what we understand from admiral thad al...