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Ocean floor but after that happens there is a series of technical things that need to happen, the pipes that need to be inserted and that sort of thing so they can start killing off the well. that will take some time as well so it's not like the moment that they crack into that well that everything shuts down completely so we're really looking at early to mid august before the wells are killed off completely if that first relief well is able to work all by itself. >> these are critical hours right now, ed. stand by. here is another way of looking at how much more oil has been flowing into the ...

I'll walk over and put them up here. i know you can see these as well. some of them are murky. it's hard to see what's going on. you see here this is the new cap that's been put in place. it's remarkable to watch these underwater vehicles remotely operated putting this in place. you see them with hooks and wrenches and sometimes they pick things up and move them. remarkable to watch this delicate work undersea. you see these images from the key area down there. they get this cap into place and as ed said when they do testing will we know at this time tomorrow will we know the biggest question ...

>> again, watch these live pictures coming in. dramatic. some of the video is hard to see because it is dark and murky a mile under sea but you see the cap coming down. we'll continue to watch this story throughout the evening. you see the feed. this feed here gives you a good perspective of the scope of this device. larger than the former containment cap because they hope this one is more sophisticated and they can use it not as a containment cap but to secure and shut down the well and stop the flow of oil. there's backup plan if that doesn't work to bring oil up to the surface. containment ...

Government officials are saying that everything is moving along nicely, the way they hoped it would, and if this new containment cap strategy does, indeed work, and we'll get a better sense over the next couple of days and weeks, it will go a long way in terms of being able to capture all of the oil spewing into the gulf of mexico. this is not the permanent solution. those relief wells are what will really kill this well for good, but admiral thad allen, who is in charge of the federal response says he's cautiously optimistic about how things are moving along right now. >> we're talking about ...

Watchers. the explosions killed at least 74 people including an american named nate henn, dozens injured, including six missionaries from pennsylvania. bp says a new containment cap could be on the well as early as today. meanwhile, in washington, the presidential commission given the job of investigating the catastrophe has its first hearing today. fidel castro is appearing on state-run tv later today, his first major public appearance in four years. these pictures surfaced over the weekend on a pro-government blog. castro stayed out of view since he had surgery in 2006 but didn't step ou...