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Welcome back. live pictures right now of bp's damaged well. a mile below the surface of the gulf of mexico. as you can see, no oil is gushing for the first time in almost three months and that is a welcome site. bp's new containment cap has been capturing all the oil now since yesterday afternoon, but, bp says it is far from the finish line. it is conducting pressure tests to see if the new cap will hold and those tests will continue through tomorrow. in any event, the new cap is only a temporary fix. let's hope the relief wells being drilled will finally kill the blown out well by the middle ...

Where it's being collected by a number of skimmers that have been called in to the area. but while this is going on, everything else is put on hold. those operations that were pumping the oil up to the surface to containment vessels, that saun hold. the drilling operations for the relief well, that is on hold. everything was going to be watching about how well this cap was going to perform. if they were able to shut it off successfully, they would be starting -- would have already started probably those pressure tests to determine if they would be able to cap this well. they were going to be g...

Were before and capturing all possibly of the oil and taking it up to the surface where they will be able to quantify once and for all exactly how much oil has been leaking out of there everyday and thad allen again talking about the cap only as a temporary measure in case of a hurricane, because although the ships and the containment vessels on the top would have to disconnect and move out of the area to leave the oil toflow back into the gulf, so with the cap, if it is successful, that's the time that they will be able to know that they can use this cap for it to make it essentially hurrican...

They proceed with these pressure tests. that was also going to give them very good information on how to proceed with the final capping of this well with the relief well that is now being dug, but, again, all of that on hold. also on hold right now are all the containment procedures. those were suspended. they were stopped -- they stopped the flow of oil up to the surface where it was being collected by the large vessels up there. that has been stopped. so all the oil you see coming out right now is being hit by dispersant and going up to the surface where a large number of skimmers are up the...

Developing story -- look at all that oil gushing out minute by minute as we talk about this, as we go about our daily lives and as we go to david mattingly down in new orleans. david, there was a setback but you said there is a little bit of hope on the horizon right now? >> reporter: it was a setback, don, and it cost several hours last night when the choke line began leaking. everything seemed to start so well when they shut off the valve. that's when they discovered the leak in the choke line. so what they did over night, they removed it. they replaced. it, and now they're in the process ar...