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Started and we will see what happens. what we are going do is to, chad, i don't want you to go away, because we want to do a before and after of the one, top of the cap, and show the viewers the oil that was coming out and now you can see it is not coming out, meaning the test has started. chad? >> well, something, and we were almost in too much of a hurry yesterday to hope that the test was happening, but this is what admiral allen said would happen if the test is going, so we are only going from what he said. >> yes, the test has started. all right. chad, standby, and we want everybody to un...

Been met with great resistance. this one is unique because so many people see the site as sacred ground. day 86 of the gulf of mexico oil disaster. tests have been declayed on a new containment cap for the ruptured oil well. a review of the testing procedure is now under way. there is hope the massive custom designed cap may seal the well completely. eight more u.s. troops were killed in afghanistan. five today, one in a bombing and others in a small arms attack. three others were killed yesterday on an attack on a police base in kandahar city. the death toll is on pace to match june as th...

Shut down the oil coming out of the top of the cap, and then they are going to check pressures, test pressures all night long. literally every six hours, they are going to make sure that every single pressure inside of this stack is okay. they don't want this thing to blow up or the casings down below to blow up. the pictures that you see here, i see oil leaking, and i understand that these are the choke, and the kill lines, but when we move around this thing is going to keep sliding around, you will see that black almost stove pipe, and it is not coming out. the oil is not coming out from the...

Today could be the most critical day yet in the gulf oil disaster but, man, we've heard that before, haven't we? crews could begin testing a new containment cap trying to stop that. it involves closing valves that could actually stop the oil from gushing. >> right. they actually delayed the beginning of this. they want to analyze their testing procedures a little bit more, i guess want to make sure they get it right at this crucial stage. meantime, all of this comes as the presidential commission investigating the spill is now questioning the administration's deepwater drilling ban. julia reed...

Moment. >> the oil is not coming out of the top of the pipe anymore. literally 30 seconds ago, wolf, the oil stopped coming out. i will show you how all of it happened. how did all of this occur? back up a couple of days and back up to what was still a damaged blowout preventer with this pipe that was not able to even be connected at all, and the oil always spilled around this old cap. and the old cap is gone. the old, let's call it a nipple, on top of the blowout preventer also was taken away, because it did not have sealable properties, and new part brought down. the new part brought down ha...