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Testing that new containment cap. at the white house today, president obama unveiled a new national strategy for combating hiv and aids. in chicago, the prosecution rested its case in the corruption trial of former illinois governor rod blagojevich. the so-called barefoot bandit is being flown to miami from the bahamas where he was busted after an alleged cross-country crime spree. the fda is meeting to decide whether the controversial diabetes drug avandia should be taken off the market. legendary new york yankees owner george steinbrenner died today in florida at age 80. back to "hardb...

Cap and we heard yesterday evening that those were going to be postponed. bp said they were doing that because they needed to conduct further analysis on the integrity of the well. it sounds like they don't want to make things worse by gathering these tests and they're gathering more information so they know what to do when they start these tests. the plan was for them to shut down the valves on the new containment cap and also supposed to shut down the containment systems on the surface so that they could measure pressure readings and they wanted to see high pressure because low pressure woul...

politics? we'll talk about that tonight. also, on day 85 of the disaster in the gulf. we have a new reason to keep a very close eye live in the underwater camera. any moment we'll find whether the newest cap will pass a critical test. that will tell us whether bp finally shuts off the flow of oil after all. the littest investigation, the drug scourge killing more americans every year, they're not street drugs, they are prescription drugs, shockingly easy to get. we have a lot of ground to cover. but we'll begin with the number one story. naacp versus the tea party. now it's getting p...

Just hanging on as one good shred of good news that they haven't seen here in quite some time. so officials here we anticipate an update here in about an hour and a half or so from bp officials as to how this is moving along. we anticipate that perhaps that testing has already begun as we've mentioned, they could take anywhere between six hours, 48 hours, could take longer. as you've seen that live picture there, you saw some of that oil coming out of the top. it was at least according to what we were told by bp officials yesterday, that was going to be something that we would be seeing. that'...

To wonder if many people are thinking we are on the verge of actually seeing this happen. so right now, as we have been watching within the last 30 minutes or so that that containment cap appears to have been settled in over the gusher at the bottom of the gulf of mexico. we are waiting word from some sort of statement from bp tonight as to what exactly is going on to, but all indications appear that that containment cap is either very close or already in the situation or in the place where they want it to be. we have heard a statement from admiral thad allen about an hour or so ago saying tha...