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This was happening right across the border from el paso, texas. one security expert says this could be actually a turning point in the drug war. let's turn back now to day 89 of the gulf oil disaster. bp has installed a new cap on that well, as you know. it was in place on thursday. this came after a couple of days of delays but still they wanted to make sure they were doing this right. bp expects now to continue with this integrity testing. so right now no oil is coming out, the thing is capped for the most part right. you see video of some oil being burned off. but what's happening below t...

Gulf. we're joined from venice, louisiana. thank you, mara, for joining us. you know, i went to bed last 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 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 la...

Will happen over the next 48 hours as soon as that cap is in place. they will begin a series of what they describe as integrity testing to determine whether or not that cap will essentially be able to do what they hope it does. essentially, that is one of two things, whether it will be able to cap and hold all of the oil inside of it or if that doesn't work whether they will be able to continue siphoning up what they suspect might be all of the oil into vessels on the surface of the water. so we're told that the testing, that integrity testing will take about 48 hours to complete. >> as we wal...

Aliens in utah, so specific, it lists 200 children and six pregnant women and their due dates. >> our towns are terrorized by this list. and maybe by this -- be afraid, be very afraid. >> excuse me? what did you say? glenn beck doesn't want to be president of the united states. >> she the dean of women at beck u.? all the news and commentary now on "countdown." good evening from new york. the obama administration's apparent concern was that merely testing the new well cap could cause so much pressure it might jeopardize the plugs of the well permanently. this does not even address the effe...

Drilling had been completed on april 17th. and the well had been sealed with casing and cement. >> halliburton performed the cement job according to the well owner's direction. we understand that neither the drilling contractor nor the well owner performed integrity testing on that cement job and a subsequent event caused that incident. >> it was quite a show to hear it from the president and others. the president imhadself also said the american people could not have been impressed by that display and that neither was he. team fox coverage tips now. major garrett at the white house. major, th...