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This new contain many cap. what it is designed to do. ed lau is bp hoping the new cap will completely -- not shut off what's happening there, the gusher, but control the flow of the oil? >>. >> reporter: that is the ideal situation. once again, we find ourselves in a critical couple of days here. you heard the admiral there say they will try to move that containment cap into place and once that happens, they are going to try to begin the process of a 48-hour -- what they are calling an integrity test to see how that cap is functioning on there. burg that time we will start to get a much cleare...

Do you share some of the concerns that that letter raises? >> i think i share the concern about the number of contributing factors that have created this incident. they're focused on the cement, on the casing, on the integrity test, on the well control procedures and on the complete failure of the blowout preventer. they are all areas that i believe we all need to understand fully before we draw conclusions about how this accident occurred. >> my final question is that based on what you now know, do you agree with the general conclusion expressed yesterday that this was a preventible accident?...

You -- now that you know what's happened, do you share some of the concerns that this letter raises? >> i think i share the concern about the number of contributing factors that may have -- that have created this incident. they're focused on the cement, on the casing, on the integrity test, on the well control procedures and on the complete failure of the blowout preventer and they are all areas that i believe we all need to understand fully before we draw conclusions about how this accident occurred. >> and mirror final question is that based on what you know now, do you agree with the genera...

An eight pin type end on them, kind of like a seismic chart and they raised pressures up to 5,000 psi for the integrity test and they're supposed to hold them by state regulations for five minutes. when they hold them up for five, ten, 20 seconds and the pressure's up to 5,000 they take their finger and slide the chart to five minutes and release the pressures and move on to the next valve. >> as alisyn mentioned, you witnessed cheating at least 100 times. the question, who is at fault here? because we saw this hearing on capitol hill and you saw, as bp pointed the finger at everyone else, esp...

With this warning, the stlis delay from anchorage is longer than usual. mr. mason, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, keith. >> explain briefly how a blowout reventer works and what testing tells them before you install them? >> well, blowout preventer works in two different ways. one, to sheer the well off in -- if the primary way doesn't work which is to seal the pipe off. and to test the b.o.p.s is what they call an integrity test to see if they hold up to the pressures. >> what exactly is the claim you've made about the testing that bp and its contractors have done on the b.o.p.s? on ...