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Night thinking, my god, they finally have got a plan. they are going to maybe cap this off. maybe take the oil up into the ships and stop the leak. what happened? >> yeah, chris, you're not the only one. you know, there were very high expectations that for the first time in almost three months, they could stop fresh oil from flowing into the waters of the gulf. they put the new cap in place on earlier this week, and the plan was for them to start integrity testing of the well yesterday, and then late yesterday evening we learned that they were going to postpone that. today we learned that it w...

Now, and they -- the administration has to give final approval for this, so if bp doesn't adequately address their concerns that this will not make things worse, they may or may not give approval for this high pressure test to continue. chris? >> my question i guess is we thought this was going to be perhaps a short-term solution, that this would perhaps cap off the -- ideally, of course, cap off the spill and secondly maybe take the oil up through a funnel up to the ships where it could be taken away causing no more damage to the gulf. but if -- if there's a danger here that it might cause da...

Gulf. we're joined from venice, louisiana. thank you, mara, for joining us. you know, i went to bed last night thinking, my god, they finally have got a plan. they are going to maybe cap this off. maybe take the oil up into the ships and stop the leak. what happened? >> yeah, chris, you're not the only one. you know, there were very high expectations that for the first time in three months they could stop fresh oil from flowing into the waters of the gulf. they put the new cap in place on earlier this week, and the plan was for them to start integrity testing of the well yesterday, and then la...

Addressed before they give the final authorization to move forward with this. that meeting happened this afternoon. it may still be under way right now, and they -- the administration has to give final approval for this, so if bp doesn't adequately address their concerns that this will not make things worse, they may or may not give approval for this high pressure test to continue. chris? >> my question i guess is we thought this was going to be perhaps a short-term solution, that this would perhaps cap off the -- ideally, of course, cap off the spill and secondly maybe take the oil up through...