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Close the choke line and take the pressure readings at that time as we intended to do. just to let you know what happened, this is the choke line off of the capping stack. as you know this, comes out of the assembly and goes up. if you've seen the video, this is that big yellow device with the curved pipe that goes up with the oil coming out of it. it connects back to the capping stack down here at a flange, and there's an assembly where this meets together. this is where the leakage was discovered. the entire choke assembly was removed and replaced overnight. they are checking this right now ...

Seven days from now, the entire replacement will be done. once they finish unbolting the flange, they go into a process where they take the actual permanent seal, the capping stack, and it's a complicated maneuver. you'll see a lot of activity by the underwater robot on the sea floor. you can see a lot of activity in the coming days. it's going to be crucial. >> vivian, i'm probably asking dumb dumb questions. it's confusing to me given i haven't seen this process happen before. few of us have. when we say the removing of the six bolts would take until tomorrow, why are we seeing at the top po...

To go ahead and proceed with the current existing containment cap. now, it's off with a new permanent seal. they sent that message last night. obviously, they worked on it overnight, maybe into the morning and confirmed to us, bp confirmed at 12:37 p.m. central time, the existing containment cap was removed. this was a loose fitting seal. nothing physically bolting the cap in place. what they have to do next is to physically unbolt a flange that is on top of this man fold on top of the blow out preventer. there's six bolts connecting it. kent wells, the senior vice president of bp says they ha...

Talk about putting a fourth containment system sometime in mid july. but that, alex, will involve dismantling what they have in place, cutting off, and just taking loose the bolts that hold the flange on top of the blowout preventer and putting a larger containment system on. the trouble with that is you take it off and that oil will be gushing uncontrolled for who knows how long it will take to fix that problem. >> exactly. no one wants to see that happen. although i guess for the long term, you kind of have to go through that. thanks so much. appreciate that. and we said that we were going t...

But they are keeping an eye on it. they are making more progress at the well site. up to 25,000 barrels of oil per day. by the end of this week, they should be up to 53,000 barrels per pay. at that point, they'll make a decision at this point, involving ken salazar and given the politics involved, perhaps even the president would have to sign off on the plan that the coast guard wants to do, and that is change out the containment system to allow them to capture up to 80,000 barrels of oil today. but that is fraught with problems. are you dealing at 5,000 feet with robotics that would have to u...