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Welcome back. live pictures right now of bp's damaged well. a mile below the surface of the gulf of mexico. as you can see, no oil is gushing for the first time in almost three months and that is a welcome site. bp's new containment cap has been capturing all the oil now since yesterday afternoon, but, bp says it is far from the finish line. it is conducting pressure tests to see if the new cap will hold and those tests will continue through tomorrow. in any event, the new cap is only a temporary fix. let's hope the relief wells being drilled will finally kill the blown out well by the middle ...

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Where it's being collected by a number of skimmers that have been called in to the area. but while this is going on, everything else is put on hold. those operations that were pumping the oil up to the surface to containment vessels, that saun hold. the drilling operations for the relief well, that is on hold. everything was going to be watching about how well this cap was going to perform. if they were able to shut it off successfully, they would be starting -- would have already started probably those pressure tests to determine if they would be able to cap this well. they were going to be g...

Oil disaster and the past couple days, we had a couple of problems with the new method to stop the oil from flowing. we're told the problem has been fix and we can move forward with these integrity tests. and then we can put the new containment cap in place to collect all this oil. we're going to break this down as simple as possible. we've been hearing a whole lot of terms. we're going to simplify it for you here right now. there was one of these leaky lines, you know the problem. that's been fixed so we can move forward. let's tell you what we're moving forward with. let's tell you what this...

Scenario. a leak in the pipeline itself because then you have mini leaks springing up, and that is a disaster i don't want to even think about. that would make it much worse. irreversible damage to that pipe. >> and it would severely limit the number of options left to bp and the federal government in terms of how to resolve this. >> that's right. it depends on where the leaks are. when we have the relief well, we finally choke it off at the bottom. hopefully the leaks will be on top of where the choking takes place. the worst case scenario is a leak in the actual pipeline because that could h...