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Signs of any new oil leaking from the capped well, we are waiting though for the ultimate fix, that, a relief well to permanently plug the leak, and, not coming until later next month but the tests continue, gulf coast residents, bp, the white house and the country anxiously watching and waiting to see you if this is finally at its end. phil keating live in louisiana with the latest. phil, there seems to be an ongoing debate with the cap, what to do next. what is that about? >> reporter: well, admiral thad allen says, all along the original plan was to do the integrity test for 48 hours which,...

Apparently no new oil gushing into the gulf of mexico. and, the pressure readings under the new tight-fitting cap, all are steadily rising and, they haven't seen or detected new oil over the integrity test and the small fleet of remotely operated vehicles and seismic and sonar readings being conducted from the surface, the data indicates the well's integrity appears to be sound. but instead of leaving the well essentially corked and waiting for the bottom kill to happen with the relief well, the plan remains, to open the riser and, let the oil flow to the collection ships on the surface, as it...

>> reporter: that is true. all of that is true and now, we are in essentially a holding pattern. admiral thad allen, just allowed the structural integrity test of the cap and the well, itself, to continue now, for a 4th day and we're an hour now into the 4th day, and, admiral thad allen announced earlier today, that every day, he's going to decide around 4:00 in the afternoon, eastern time, whether to continue the test, continue the capping as it is now and continue to not have oil going up to the surface ships for containment. or, soon as there is any sign, that perhaps there may be some oil ...

They're so ridiculous. and baskin robbins is retiring four flavors they say have gone out of fashion. >> we'll start with the oil spill. it's now day 90 of the spill in the gulf. it may not be a spill anymore, it may be capped because when you look at the pictures it does appear that the good news continues to flow, pun intended, there's no oil leaking out that have well. what they are going to do soon is reopen the well and send some oil back up to the ships on top of the ocean which means oil will seep back into the gulf. not the flow that we saw for the last 89 days or 88 days, however, but...

Children from church camp rolled over this morning in kansas. it happened on interstate 35 near wellsville. one child was taken to a hospital by air ambulance, eight others by ground ambulances. and on day 89 of the gulf oil disaster, cautious optimism. there are no signs of any new leaks two days after the oil stopped gushing. bp is continuing its so-called integrity test on the new containment cap. and this is just past the 48-hour deadline that they had set earlier. president barack obama and his family are in maine this weekend for a brief vacation. republicans are criticizing the get ...