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Closing that off. for a period of time, it will look as if a thing is shut off and no oil flowing. until we get that word, we should not take that next step. during this testing, that will be shut down. that's when we start to do the testing and pressure to make sure it is where it needs to be and make sure the containment cap is working the way it they hope it does. >> ed, at one point last night when watching the underwater cam. it looked like the oil had actually stopped and started flowing again. what was going on there? >> it was hard to say what was going on there. that is part of what w...

For about 48 hours. they want to keep the pressure steady at about 8,000 to 9,000 pounds per square inch. so, high pressure is actually good. that means that the oil isn't leaking out from anywhere else in the well casing. over the next few hours and days, a couple of things could happen, anderson. the cap could contain all of the oil and bp will shut it in, as they say, or it could contain some of the oil, which means they'll still send some crude to be selected by ships on the surface, or worst case, the cap won't work at all. just today thad allen actually put a date on it, telling reporter...

We know and we have the green light now to proceed with the well integrity test. so, they have stopped collecting, i guess this means that they have stopped collecting oil on the top, is that right? >> yes. they have stopped the ships that were sucking the oil from down below through very long pipes, a mile deep, all of the way down to the bottom of the blowout preventer, and they had attached lines, hoses, if you will to the blowout preventer, and to the choke and the kill valves down below and sucking the oil to the top and not letting it go into the ocean. clearly some coming out of the top...

Family whenever we went to new york, the boys, to sean. he was just -- he -- i tell you, there's two sides to him. he could fire someone in a second. we prevented him from firing someone. there was a security guard, wouldn't letmy two boys on the field. of course, they didn't have passes -- >> larry, thank you. >> larry: he went up -- >> we're out of time. larry's back tomorrow. time for anderson cooper and "ac 360." we're live in port-au-prince keeping them honest. thousands of people are spending yet another night in darkness in plastic tarp-covered shelters. more permanent, but very much li...

Ruptured well. those tests were put on hold yesterday. engineers needed more time to review testing procedures. all fired up here in new york as a battle begins over plans to build a mosque in islamic community center literally in the shadow of ground zero. in a few minutes we'll hear arguments on both sides of this debate. also, three wildfires now raging across southern california. fire officials say that some homes are being threatened but there's no reports of any mandatory evacuations so far. two of the fires are located just a few dozen miles outside of los angeles. the third at camp...