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To us once again what they are worried about could go wrong. >> reporter: well, they need to just by the name of the test. integrity testing. essentially what they're going to do in this test is close off all of the valves. you can imagine how intense the pressure with all of this oil shooting out into the gulf of mexico. we are talking about intense, intense pressure. when they cap that, all that pressure is kind of contained in there and they need to make sure that the cap that they've put on there will be able to withstand that and that everything down the line, deep into the earth, would b...

Well. cnn's ed lavandera on day 86 of the bp spill. >> reporter: the preparations for this integrity test have started in the gulf. significant because over the course of the next 48 hours, in six-our increments, we could begin to get a sense of whether or not this containment cap system is going to work the way bp officials and federal government officials hope it will. that means as all of the events and everything is shut down, they will begin pressure readings to determine whether or not this containment cap will be able to withstand that pressure. and they hope that it works in one of two...

The testing period with apparently no new oil gushing into the gulf of mexico and the pressure readings under the new tight fitting cap steadily rising. they have not seen or detected any new oil over this integrity test via a small fleet of remotely operated vehicles and multiple seismic and sonar readings conducted from the surface. the data indicates the well's integrity appears to be sound. instead of leaving it corked and waiting for the bottom kill to happen with the relief well, the plan remains to open the riser to kill and choke lines for the large collection ships on the surface. as ...

Them. the new celebrity couple? bristol and levi? what led to their reunion. "us weekly" takes us behind the scenes. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com it is day 89 of the gulf oil disaster. bp's integrity test of the new cap will no go on until at least tomorrow afternoon. in the meantime, bp says one of two relief wells is just a few feet from interseptembering the crippled well and there are still millions of gallons of oil to clean up. it was about ten miles northeast of the well site. the huge converted cargo ship called a-whale won't be part of the skimming operation. it failed to c...

Of it spilling into the gulf but going into the surface ships all of which will happen until finally the ultimate fix bottom kill below the surface. >> where does the relief well drilling stand at this point? >> they actually did pause the drilling while they did the integrity test. drilling has resumed. we got on board by transocean, one of the two ships that is drilling. deepest relief well is about 17,840 feet. according to bp, it's 24 feet away from point of interception but it's slow going because nobody wants to actually miss the interception of the 2 wells bee by even a millimeter. once...