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Breaking news right now for the first time in months there is no oil leaking into the gulf of mexico. that is because of a critical test bp is currently conducting on a new well cap. so what happens after this test is completed? should be completed within 48 hours, and the national incident commander and retired coast guard admiral thad allen explains the process. >> within 48 hours, we will terminate the task back to production with the q-4000 and the helix producer and evaluate where we are at. that will include most likely another seismic run over the area, and this will be a -- this will a...

The process. >> the president certainly has suffered a great deal. >> has paid a price. >> politically because of these three months. >> you remember during the crisis which is now almost fully three months, the people started comparing barack obama to jimmy carter during the hostage crisis, and there's a question of how competent barack obama was or if he -- if he was competent how compassionate barack obama is, and now he's got a political fight on his hands about a moratorium on drilling deepwater wells. he wants to have a moratorium. there are lots of folks in the gulf who don't want to, s...

A huge moment in the course of what we've been covering over the last three months. i mean, i don't think there's any words that can add to this to explain why this is such a crucial moment in the hope that what we see on the right of your screen there is what we can hope -- would hope would continue from here on out so we know that we're in the middle or the beginning of this integrity test. it will last a couple of days, and why this is significant, because if one of the two options that they hope will play out here, essentially what we could be seeing is even if it's not capped, even if it'...

Hurricane, and also this cap, is it going to be instrumental in helping them to ensure that the kill process runs properly. and the seismic test that is coming up is something that is very important, because it will tell them if any oil and gas is actually leaking into the layers of the rock, and actually displacing salt water that would normally be in the rocks with oil and gas and it is a clear-cut indication that there is a leak, but if they see nothing it will be a very good sign that there is no significant leaking whatsoever in this well. >> because i want to put up on the screen what is...

Waited for, you know, 87 days for. obviously the cap that is -- that has been put on proves that cap could have been designed in 2003 when they knew these blowout preventers were not failsafe. having said that, good news is good news and we need to make sure that the focus returns to where it should have been which is keeping the oil from coming ashore, protecting habitat, seeking additional resources there. the money is obviously there. they have the resources that exist but putting the two to work seems to be vexing for this administration and the bureaucrats that came down there to make lon...