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Them. >> well, a blowout preventer works in two different ways. one, to shear the well off if the primary way doesn't work, which is to seal the pipe off. to test the bops it's what they call an integrity test to see if they hold up to the pressures. >> so what exactly is the claim you've made about the testing that bp and its contractors have done on the blowout preventers? >> well, when they test the bops they're supposed to hold each test for five minutes, at 5,000 psi. to cut corners they hold the test 30 seconds or so on each one. they have a spin chart with an ink pen on the spin chart, ...

But what halliburton is saying, we worked on it but we're just a subcontractor, we were done 20 hours before the accident and all of our work passed the integrity test. they're saying if you're looking for someone to blame here, look at the equipment operator, look at the people in charge but don't look so much at us. as you said from the beginning, we have a circle of everybody pointing at everybody else and saying, this is where the blame lies. it is a very hard for any senator or congressman to make sense of that. >> it certainly is. thanks. word tonight on what comes next in the struggle t...

They finished with well ahead of time. the accusation is that there was a problem here that allowed a rush of oil, a rush of methane gas which caused this explosion. but what halliburton is saying, we worked on it but we're just a subcontractor, we were done 20 hours before the accident and all of our work passed the integrity test. they're saying if you're looking for someone to blame here, look at the equipment operator, look at the people in charge but don't look so much at us. as you said from the beginning, anderson, what we really have is a whole circle of everybody pointing at everybody...

Posed nude. now they're back together. "us weekly" broke the story and we'll hear from an editor tonight. it is day 89 of the gulf oil disaster and day two of zero oil gushing into the gulf. bp's integrity test of its new cap is now passed the 48-hour mark and will go on a while longer. david mattingly joins us from new orleans. david, why the extension of this testing period? >> reporter: well, that's just another evidence of all the caution that we're seeing throughout this entire process. 48 hours have gone by. there was no sign of any oil leaking as the pressure slowly continues to build...

Next on "larry king live." good evening. we begin with breaking news in what could be a turning point in the gulf oil spill tragedy. let's get the latest from cnn's ed lavandera in new orleans. what's the latest, ed? >> reporter: well, larry, right now, we know that officials with bp and the federal government are entering into the preliminary testing phase, getting ready for what's called the integrity test. based on the readings they get from these tests overed course of the next 48 hours will determine whether this containment cap that they put in place on monday will work as they hope it d...