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They're being able to exercise the valves over the next 6 to 48 hours. if this doesn't work, if, in other words, the pressure builds up to the point where they cannot actually shut it off, what's the back-up? just put a hose on the top of this thing, then suck the oil off through the top? >> actually, they already have three hoses, i believe, connected. i know they have two connected already to the lower marine riser package. they'll have a third hose attached to this stack itself. then they can also produce the oil. and the fall-back situation to leave the valves open enough, as much as they ...

Transition tool on top of the lower marine riser package and allow us to fit a containment cap potentially later on today. i've asked bp for some plans on how to contest test that containment cap and we have those in hand. if all goes well some time this afternoon the containment cap could go on. we want to slowly close the vafs valves and shut the oil in and see if it can main maintain the pressure. is there a potential to shut in the well or cap it, if you will. or if there is a problem with pressure and the well board, actually produce the oil but control it much more than we have been able...

Strike. we've seen since last night a whole lot of active weather in this area. there were no injuries, all procedures were followed. this is according to bp. and as a precaution, the lower marine riser package, the lmrp, containment operation was shut down. all safety shutdown systems operated as designed. now, from what we understand, this has not started up yet again. they're still conducting final safety and operational insurances inspections and bp is telling us they expect the collection of oil to resume this afternoon. but for the moment, the derrick which is the pump on top of the rig ...

Significantly lower and that might afford them an opportunity to do that. the other option would be to separate the lower marine riser pipe from the stack and actually just replace it with that second blowout preventer that i talked about earlier. this sounds confusing and highly technical, but basically there are three things happening. one is to clog the blowout preventer to stop the leak. the second is to sever the pipe and to put a valve in to replace it or put a second one on. those can be red for execution as early as the 18th. so what we have is a series of steps made to mitigate the le...

Concerns over tropical storm bonnie threatening to reopen the gusher in the gulf. severe weather warnings now that are stretch from florida to louisiana, and the nation gnat incident commander thad allen ordering all ships to evacuate the spill site and take cover. steve harrigan live in grand isle, louisiana. what exactly are they saying about the containment cap that has been placed offer the well and whether it will hold and how the weather is affecting? >> reporter: megyn actually over my shoulder you might be able to see some of the ships leaving the scene. they were told yesterday at 8:0...