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About was the second piece of drill pipe that they discovered stuck inside the blowout prev t preventer, so they had to get this new spool, landing spool over those two. and that went really well on saturday. they bolted those down yesterday and they landed the b.o.p. stack just a little while ago. so it's gone well. >> if this stack is not used to funnel gas to the surface, but just caps the flow, does that mean we ultimately never get the hard number, the kind that bp cannot fight in court in terms of how much spill there actually was, obviously, the number that would determine fines and pen...

What state that well is actually in. if the pressure is high, bp says that's actually good news. because it means that the oil is coming straight out through that drill pipe. if the pressure is low, that is a problem because there could be leaks elsewhere below the surface. and then they've got real trouble. now, there are two possibilities here. they could either, if the test goes well, and they're able to contain the oil, they could continue the test and try to shut in the well. the other option is then they could start to contain the oil. and they will have four vessels on the surface, and ...

Its drill pipe to create an electric ro roe magnetic signal locate the metal casing of the original well used to determine which direction to proceed the directional surveys have a little element of error in them so in the deeper you go the big ert error gets. >> if a hurricane does approach the spill area the rig might have to be evacuated. >> the entire time period we would have to abandon the site, go to a safe haven and come back. it could be a total of 14 days. >> reporter: once the wells intersect it'll take at least several days for drilling mud and then cement to be poured down the rel...

Tools to be able to integrate all of those pieces into a whole that's efficient and environmentally-compatib environmentally-compatible. >> we appreciate you giving us the rundown today. fascinating stuff. again peter coen working on this with nasa. we appreciate you being here. i need too turn quickly to the white house. today's briefing, we haved that allen who is in charge of the gulf response, he's giving the briefing from the white house today. >> distance of 11,641 feet below the sea floor. they're going through a series of operations which we call ranging, they're into their fourth cy...

We had a situation a few weeks ago where lightning struck the derek and caused a fire. there are safety reasons where they might have to stop from time to time. regarding the relief wells, development driller 3 is at a distance of 11,641 feet below the seafloor. they are ranging, they are into their fourth cycle of this. they withdraw the drill pipe and put down electrical cable and try to sense the magnetic field around the well bore. they are within around 15 feet of the well borat this point. they will continue down 7, 800 more feet close into the well bore and when they know they've got it...