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Night thinking, my god, they finally have got a plan. they are going to maybe cap this off. maybe take the oil up into the ships and stop the leak. what happened? >> yeah, chris, you're not the only one. you know, there were very high expectations that for the first time in almost three months, they could stop fresh oil from flowing into the waters of the gulf. they put the new cap in place on earlier this week, and the plan was for them to start integrity testing of the well yesterday, and then late yesterday evening we learned that they were going to postpone that. today we learned that it w...

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Received from bp tonight agreeing to allow so-called integrity testing to begin, to see if the blown-out well can handle the high pressures of shutting down the flow of oil within it. crude still gushing into the gulf at this hour. admiral allen saying in tonight's briefing that the government gave its permission for testing to begin after a 24-hour delay, satisfied that bp's latest scheme does not raise undue risks that outweigh the potential reward. testing to be conducted in stages. bp to slowly close each of the five outlets on the cap at six-hour intervals, stopping to monitor the results...

The coast guard and bp all of these weeks before this operation was undertaken. >> well, industry veteran bob cavnar of thedailyhurricane.com and "huffington post." as always, thanks, bob, if not for the outcomes, at least for the information. >> great to talk to you, keith. >> for more on the so-called integrity testing as well as the integrity of the blowout preventers, let's turn now to ed markey, chairman of the democratic committee. thank you for your time tonight, sir. >> glad to be here. >> you had asked bp to provide information about the status of that wellbore. what did the company t...

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...