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Spillway. >> jamie: and a lot of people are asking why this will be undertaken and people will lose their home. it was put into motion in the 1930's, built in 1954 and last opened in 1973. and it's set to open when the mississippi reaches a flow rate of one and a half million cubic feet per second and to put at that in perspective, consider the amount of water flowing past vicksburg, mississippi right now and we've been told it would fill the new orleans silverdome, get this in 50 seconds. >> wow, nasa just releasing some pictures of the mighty mississippi river, showing the massive scope of t...

Hour. and good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington, and we start today with a pivotal day in the gulf, where engineers are now preparing to test the new containment cap on the leaking oil head. the tests could take two days to complete. the results should give us the clearest picture yet of just how damaged that well is. >> maybe counterintuitive to some. in this exercise, high pressure is good. whatever information we get out of this well integrity test will lead us to a more refined estimate on flow rate. >> louisiana congressman charles melancon joining us now. what are you hearing? yo...

Bp is moving forward with cementing that well. for all intents and purposes, that will seal this well for good. we should point out, though, we don't know the flow rate and that's probably something that admiral thad allen will discuss with us later this afternoon when he holds that news conference to talk about how much cement is actually needed, because we don't know how long this will take. we know that the static kill procedure which used the same system of pipe thank choke line that pump the mud down in there took just eight hours, so we're still not sure, still not clear, how long this w...

O'clock six, 24, or 48 hours, and at that point we will have a better in order not only the pressure, it will tell us something about the condition of the well bore itself and ultimately tell us manager about the flow rate which today has been based on estimates, based on the digitical imagery, acoustic testing and so forth. so a consequential day, somewhere in the afternoon, we will start the technical team, it's being assembled. after this press conference i'll be meeting with secretary kh*u from the department of energy, martha mcnu it utt from the geological survey, tom hunter from the wil...

Wolf? >> there's a huge fine bp will have to pay for all the oil went out. here's the question, are they going to have to reopen that well to determine precisely the flow rate in order to assess how much bp owes the federal tax payers? >> admiral allen talking about that very thing today, saying that is one of the big decisions on his plate he has to work through. right now they're looking at ways they can possibly determine an accurate flow rate using temperature readings they're learning now, pressure readings they're learning now to help them get an accurate flow rate f. they can't do that,...