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Viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, and you are in i'm wolf blitzer, and you are in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com let's open up a new chapter in the gulf oil disaster and now bp and the federal government have decided to extend the integrity test for the new well cap for another 24 hours. for six days it has kept oil from leaking into the gulf and giving experts time to consider a more permanent fix called a static kill which is designed to end the threat once and for all. we go to cnn's david mattingly who is monitoring this fro...

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 this continues the relie...

Concern leaving the white house and b p at ads. bp wants to keep the cap closed, the government is in fave of pumping oil into tankers. the major concern now, if they're opening the cap, if they reopen it, it leaves open the possibility of making the oil spill even worse, and then of course harder to fix. phil keating in gulf port, mississippi. we talked about this yesterday. how serious is this seep and the methane that may be coming out of it? reporter error it's critically important and it is at the crux of what this integrity test is all about. down there under the cameras, on the seafloor...

Returning the oil up to the surface just to collect it, just leave it as is and wait for the relief well to happen. well, admiral thad allen who has final authority here just recently released a statement. he had said that he wanted to resume as soon as the integrity test was complete, resume sending oil up to the collection ships above which would also incidentally give a definitive rate of flow of how much oil is spilling into the gulf. he is now saying they will take this on a 24 hour basis, meaning the integrity test. theoretically the 24 hour integrity test extension could keep happening ...

Phil keating live in st. tamanie parish, louisiana, with the latest on the cap and the progress. phil, what happened? admiral allen's plan to reuse operation on the surface ships. does it appear that the oil has been completely stopped? >> admiral allen indicated yesterday that the plan was once the testing was done on the integrity of the well and we're in the third day of no new oil, polluting the gulf of mexico. that he wanted the reopen the valve and the pipelines up to the surface ships and resume containment and collection methods until the relief wells finally bottom-kill the well. most...