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But he gave us some perspective and you and tony harris had a good chance to grill him on this stuff. what do you think? do they know what they are doing based on everything that you are hearing, chad? i know you have studied this closely? >> from what i know it was the u.s. government who said, let's just check this out, and let's not -- let's not blow this thing out from the bottom of the ocean where we can't ever stop it. and so that is why the slow down of the 24 hours happened at all. but now we know that there has been some success, and this right here is the black pipe where the oil has...

All right. let's get back to the breaking news this hour. we may, repeat, may be at the beginning of the end of this nightmare in the gulf of mexico. that critical so-called integrity test on the new well cap has begun. we now know it has started. back to cnn's chad meyers for the very latest. you broke the news right at the top of the hour, chad, that well cap, and they have now sealed at least part of it. >> yes, they have. in fact, right from kent wells right to my blackberry, senior vice president kent wells says that the middle ram, the middle ram or the middle part, the middle valve has ...

That failed bombing in new york's times square, and he offers a chilling explanation for what he calls the need for a holy war. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer here in "the i'm wolf blitzer here in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com following breaking news, the government has given bp the okay to go forward with testing the integrity test. this comes a full day after we have all expected the test to begin, and a frustrating communication gap that kept the world in the dark for hours about what was going ...

>> 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 ...

>> well, with the cap on, bp now will spend the next 48 hours testing the pressure of the well. and that will start first thing tomorrow morning, they say. bp calls it an integrity test. in this case, high pressure is a good thing if the well maintains its high pressure with the cap on, then that actually means oil and gas aren't leaking out in other areas of the well casing. low pressure would mean that there are other leaks, the hope is, the high pressure will continue, will stick, and within the week the cap would be tightened on there permanently. >> and i mean, is bp pretty confident this...