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>> shepard: in other words, don't get ahead of yourselves. the national incident commander in all of this says they will watch the pressure readings for 48 hours to see if the blow-out well holds. >> easiest analogy i can give is you putting your numb over top of the hose, slowly get a higher pressure stream when you are trying to water the garden. if we get very low pressure readings it, would be the equivalent of putting your thumb over the garden hose and the oil is going some place else because of the pressure. if we get high pressure readings that would give us indications that the well b...

And the pressure out of the reservoir right now. i will give you a range. i think between 11,000 and 12,000 pounds per square inch pushing up into the wellbore as a result of the well that was drilled. now, the issue is, how is that pressure being controlled? obviously, they lost pressure and that's what caused the event to begin on the 20th of april. we had a cap that has been recovering some of the oil, but we have been venting oil and when you vent oil, that releases pressure and the lousiest, easiest analogy i can give you is putting your thumb on top of a hose to get a higher pressure str...

What would happen to the well, hello, last night because of a leak in the new cap. jonathan serrie is in grand isle. when did they find the leak and how did they fix it? >> they found it in the choke line which carries oil to the surface. they discovered it while conducting pressure tests, applying pressure and discovering the leak. it works like a garden hose as admiral thad allen described. >> easiest analogy is putting your thumb over a hose, shoally you get a higher pressure stream when you water the garden or something. >> reporter: in the simplest terms, you cover the top of the hose and...