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Of oil determined to have gone into the gulf of mexico all spring and summer. we have only had the gismts. 35,000 barrels a day or 60,000 barrels a day. if you cap the well as it is now and open it back up, no oil is going out into the ocean. you can get a number as to per day how many barrels spilled. doing that transitioning will allow no more oil to spill two or three more days. that's what bp says. again admiral allen says in the end will come pretty close pressure tests. >> shepard: phil keating, reporting from the pass christian. >> shepard: tapes claimed to be from two high profile lead...

The gulf of mexico. bp confident there is not a new leak anywhere. this thing is holding. the company trying those pressure tests, running those right now. the new containment cap put in place. bp says the relief well could intersect with the ruptured well by the end of this month, then it could take a few days or weeks to kill the ruptured well. right now things possibly looking up. there is no oil going onto the gulf right now. in new jersey, a tragedy averted. no one has been found in the rubble of a collapsed garage. searchers feared they might find a victim in there in a crushed car. th...

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That's the picture we have been looking for for so long in the disaster. but that's only in the here and now. pressure tests are going on, and based on the technical briefing we got this morning from bp, things are going as they had expected. so far, so good, everything as expected, no surprises, and no oil leaks. that's very good news right now. they've got the rovs positioned on the ocean floor. they're actually looking beneath all their equipment down there, looking at the ocean floor, looking for the possibility of any oil seeping up through the ground in that area. that would tell them th...

Focuses, contributory negligence. thad allen was supposed to brief reports on a conference call at 3:00 p.m. eastern. that's delayed until 4:30. there were two reasons, one, the national incident commander wants more data from bp on the pressure tests and wants more time to evaluate what the federal government is able to accomplish in the reprieve from the flowing oil. the president says the containment cap may contain up to 80,000 barrels a day. that translates, when you talk about 42 gallons a barrel to 3.3 million gallons every day. for the first time there's a 24-hour reprieve and the skim...