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Down here the rest of the riser pipe. it was bent. it wasn't straight. they brought a machine down. they took the bolts out. they took this thing away. then they brought in a brand new piece that they just built. a cleaner piece with belter edges. they brought it down. and stacked it right on top of the old blowout preventer. what that did -- that allowed now a better sealing piece to be laid on top. not that old clunky looking cap that they put on earlier. there is a nice clean ring, clamp on to the ring, now had a good seal. good seal here and good seal to the new cap. kind of a blowout prev...

Because the oil will be turned back on, in the next 48 hours or so as they figure out how to proceed forward. so but this is the best news we have seen in almost three months. i think people will take that. but they also realize there are months if not years of clean-up left to do. >> thanks, ed, on the scene in new orleans. let's go to cnn center and chad myers, chad, walk us through, how did they stop this? >> they took apart the old top of the well, larry, the riser pipe went up, it bent over, kinked it made itself unusable. they cut it off. they took it away. it still doesn't sealable. so ...

The riser pipe it would mean worse case scenario that the oil is going under the sea bed and could pop up anywhere. you don't then know what the location is to try to contain it and eventually to stop it. >> right. and that's certainly the worst case scenario. the other thing about putting this new containment cap or this new sealing cap on top of the well is that it will actually help them when they go to kill the well with the relief well. and the reason it should help them is because the belief is this cap will actually help stabilize the well. it will give them more informing about the con...

The last to hours, really more of a tone of cautious optimism. because the oil will be turned back on, in, the next 48 hours or so as they figure out how to proceed forward. so but this is the best news we have seen in almost three months. i think people will take that. but they also realize there are months if not years of clean-up left to do. >> thanks, ed, on the scene in new orleans. let's go to cnn center and chad myers, chad, walk us through, how did they stop this? >> they took apart the old top of the well, larry, the riser pipe went up, it bent over, kinked it made itself unusable. th...

Ultimate success will be the relief well and developer driller 3 is now at 17,840 feet measured depth. they have been there for a day or two. they are doing testing to make sure they have the right angle of attack as they close in for the last 60 or 70 feet before they last. you try to make the penetration for the relief well and the current estimate of how far away they are from the well at this point is 4'4", this gets pretty precise as they go down another 60 or so feet and drill into a seven inch casing pipe. so, that continues, as well. one other thing, if we are to go to a full productio...