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Cement to go in to seal this thing off permanently, why not just wait until they're at least almost ready to do that if not wait until after to do this? >> people have suggested that, apparently, some of the engineers i've spoken with have said that while they could certainly leave everything open, collect the oil out of the stacking cap up to the surface vessels until they're ready to try the bottom kill with the relief well, until they're intersected there, and then if the kill fluid, the muds and cement, are blowing out the well head, then slowly start closing the valves on the -- and the s...

Random pictures, but the one that i am looking at, two of the pictures that show literally gauges from zero to 15,000 psi. and right now, that needle is on zero. when it starts to go up we will know that they are shutting the vavl valves. >> all right. standby, chad. it is impossbling to overstate how critical this operation is to ending this gulf oil disaster. cnn's brian todd talked about it with national incident commander and retired coast guard admiral thad allen in houston. >> reporter: how big is this day? the biggest day in the operation so far you think? >> well, one of the biggest ...

Misrepresent the flow rate. they're doing what they can to misrepresent the pressurization in that well and have been for a long time. i won't go onto what they're doing bp is not behaving in a way that suggests they're anxious to make everybody whole. >> i'm not on here to defend bp. >> i won't put you there. >> this is the federal government making regulation without looking at the true economic factors in play here. if you don't like this, just wait until cap and trade. >> hold on a second, alex. i have a volcano of oil that has poured hundreds of millions of barrels of oil into gulf of mex...

Sustain those pressures for that amount of time. this could be 6, 24 or 48 hours and at that point we will have a better idea, not only the pressure, it will tell us something about the condition of the well board itself and, ultimately, tell us something about the flow rate which today has been based on estimates, based on the digital imagery acoustic testing and so forth. so, a consequenceal day. somewhere afternoon we'll start and the technical team is being assembled. after this press conference, i'll be meeting with secretary cho from the department of energy and tom hunder from sandy lab...

>> it's the basis of all the amounts bp is going to pay i've been focusing on the fact that bp has been slow at getting this contained and only moved forward on the ceiling cap after the coast guard incested on friday. it's to bp's advantage to have unmeasured oil going into the water. as long as it's unmeasured oil going into the water, then that has a chance of reducing their total amount they owe. it won't be measured. they can negotiate that down. >> as a counselor i ask that you note that deliberate omission and miscalculation of the flow rate as a secondary tactic in addition to the obvi...