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In the middle the oil is not coming out of the big black pipe in tid manile anymore coming out of other valves and places, yes, but we know that this is the first indication that the integrity test had started from the mouths of the -- from the bp people, this now is taking place just as they thought so. and now, even as we look at it, where the oil was leaking out, the one yellow pipe, that is the kill, and the choke pipes and i even believe some of the oil, the amount of oil has lessened just in the last few minutes, so i can see some oil escaping, but in the middle of the screen right there...

>> reporter: no. in fact, it's still really hard to get answers. i will give it to them that they hold two briefings a day, two conference calls, 7:30 in the morning, 2:30 in the afternoon to update people. when it comes to 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, at night, we want to keep our viewers up to date, i called bp again, they said, we can't tell you whether or not that integrity test, as they're calling it, has started. at 9:30 before air we get an e-mail saying it hasn't started. between all those hours between 2:30 in the afternoon and late e-mail, we don't know weight going on. we're just watching the ...

Casing be damaged? and that is what we are examining with the experts right now to make sure that we don't believe that is the case, and to confirm that, if we did think it could happen, we might not proceed with the test. so that is what the teams are studying, as we speak. >> i don't have to tell you how anxiously everyone is awaiting the results of the test, and hopefully the day when you can close these valves and shut that thing down. here is my question, if you knew at approximately what we are getting at 4:30 p.m. yesterday that you were going to delay the integrity test, you know how a...

To our "wordplay" now. today, we are talking about integrity tests. that's what they're doing in the gulf right now, working with the new containment cap. integrity, the definition sz sound unimpaired or perfect condition. but aren't necessarily looking for the well to be in perfect condition. they just want to know if it can handle the pressure of a better cap. they want to know if there are other problems along the line before they seal it up. the integrity test could take anywhere from 6 to 48 hours to complete. bp says if the well fails the test, they'll have to rethink the new cap plan. y...

>> reporter: right. it is interesting, too, because early on in the day, as many of the briefings as we had originally started to have started the integrity test tuesday morning and it has been delayed and delay and woke up this morning experiencing the same delay with all of the briefings, but today, the bp officials sounded much more confident an felt like they were ready to move ahead. so i imagine that they were ready to get going with all of this. >> ed lavendara, standby, because we will come back to you. we are going the go to chad meyers who is getting more insight as to the breaking n...