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The gulf and it is good news this morning, according to many who have followed this from day one. now day 85 into the gulf oil disaster. a look now at the new cap. these are live underwater pictures. bp got it situated last night and now beginning today, bp will begin testing the pressure in the well to see if the cap will work at actually stopping the oil flow all together. if all goes as planned, the next step would be to close the vents and drastically cut the flow of oil. ed lavendera is live in new orleans with the latest on all of this. we had a chance last hour to speak to the lsu profe...

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Waiting for? joining me now, donovan newenhost, professor of petroleum geoscience at the university of houston. i'm sure, don, you've been looking at these live pictures as we have and i guess potentially what we would see is a slowing or at least a narrowing of the leak that's coming out of the top of this thing. correct? >> yes. i think what they're going to probably try to do is close some of the vents at a time slowly so they can check the pressure response to closing those vents because they want to close the vents extremely slowly so that they don't create a hammer-like effect on the wel...

These kind of blow-out protectors and caps on the racks, as you say, so we can pull them off and put them if place in case, god forbid, this happens again? >> i believe that's absolutely correct. i think the easiest solution to the concerns that we all have are to have this equipment available. now this particular type of cap is something they didn't have before, but now they will have that available. and i think it would be appropriate for them to have the equipment they need for every type of well depending on the specific conditions, the pressure, the temperature and the water depth, to hav...

Rely on the government agencies to give us some direction as to whether the medicine is safe or not. >> if there is a better alternative, something that doesn't have as much risk, i'd rather do that. and i think that's what i'll do. >> reporter: edward darden didn't wait. he switched to another medication and he is not alone. prescriptions of avandia are down by two-thirds in the past three years. dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. coming up in the next hour, 7:40 eastern, we'll speak to dr. steven nissen. he essentially started all of this. he's going to be testifying at today's hearings fro...