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The story is unfolding as we speak. the past hour said they had given b.p. the green light for pressure test after a delay, and they needed the time to get assurances from scientists and b.p. that the cest would not do any damage. look at the sea under the spilled site. it will put it on the new cap and then measuring the oil pressure building up inside the cap. high pressure would suggest the cap is holding back the oil flow. low pressure will indicate a leak somewhere else in the well. but it's never been conducted at depth of 5,000 feet. federal officials called for the delay yesterday to a...

Breaking news changes everything on "studio b." first day 87 of our national disaster in the golf. if all goes well oil could stop flowing by date 89. we're heard a lot in the last few months. they say maybe but it's a if. engineers started a pressure test on the well in the last hour. they have to find out what happens when they shut the flow of the oil off. why? why do they need to take the risk they might not be able to prevent another blowout with a blowout preventer? even if it holds, new leaks could happen and more oil could pour from other spots. a sounds familiar because the people in ...

Officials that had some concerns about the process and then by a leaking pipe. but they have dealt with those issues and now they have started this test. and essentially, it's a pressure test to see if this cap can withstand the pressure of the well. they have shut down the surface containment systems. they are going to be shutting down the valves on that cap. and then they're going to be looking at pressure readings. and as you heard thad allen mention in that sound bite, they want to see high pressure, because low pressure would indicate to them that they have a leak somewhere else that they...

Megyn: we are just getting word bp has started critical work in the gulf of mexico. this is a critical pressure test it's performing on the blownout well. this could be the beginning of the final steps of getting this thing capped. day 87, hard to believe. a jury is deliberating at this hour in the john stamos extortion case. a michigan couple accused much trying to swindle $680,000 from stamos threatening to sell photos of him they say show him with strippers and using cocaine as he shared a hotel room with a 17-year-old girl. he claims that such photos don't exist and that these two are tryi...

We can fix that. i want to go to venice, louisiana, where mara has been following this throughout. mara, what are you hearing there? >> i'm just tuning into your broadcast. i didn't hear what your previous guest may have stated. but this is the first time in the life of this crisis that they have been able to stop fresh oil from spilling into the waters of the gulf of mexico. regardless of its permanence, it is symbolically significant. s that the first time since the explosion happened on april 20th they've been able to stop stretch oil from spilling into the water. this was something expecte...