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Delay. good evening, jonathan. >> hi, bret. 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 o...

Underwater camera, you can surmise that the choke and kill lines and the pressure has not started in earnest. >> so once they close the valves, presumably if all goes as everyone hopes, we won't see anymore oil leaking from the top. the pressure test, brian. >> right. >> do we know how long that test goes on for? >> well, they said it could take as little as six hours to get results from it, but could take as long as 48 or more hours. this is really unchartered ground for a lot of the researchers and these officials here, because they have never done it at depths like this before, 5,000 feet b...

Criticism for everything here. including this idea, saying this sounds like a very low-tech solution to a very high-tech and very dangerous problem. but the plan is, to inject that in there, clog up the pipes, make sure that this oil stops completely, until they get their wells drilled to cap it permanently. >> david mattingly in grand isle, louisiana, thanks, david. right before that oil in the gulf exploded into flames last month, bp knew there was a problem with the well but did not halt production. according to congressman henry waxman, bp officials privately admit that the well failed a...

Congressman, henry waxman, b.p. officials privately admit that the well fail aid critical pressure test just hours before it erupted and went into flames. it suggested that natural gas could have been sweep into the system which could have been a cocktail for catastrophe. information reviewed describes an internal debate between transocean and b.p. personnel about how to proceed. what we do know is that shortly before 10:00 p.m. just two hours after well operations apparently resumed, gas surged from the well up the riser and the rear exploded in a fireball. >> 11 workers on that rig are mis...

In the gulf. bp has not been able to stop the leak, but the company could be getting close to trying another capping of it. as we learn, there were problems before the rig exploded last month, killing 11 men. david lee miller joins us live from venice, louisiana, so what are we learning new about the investigation, david? >> well, you know, jon, success has many fathers but failure is an orphan and no more is that true than in this ongoing investigation. bp, the operator of the rig, the subcontractors, all pointing the finger at one another, saying that it's their fault. now, let's talk specif...