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New capping stack. there are only two ways for that to be released because we did not move that middle ram back. it will start going out the kill line and the choke line. we will then close the kill line and start to slowly close the choke line and take the pressure readings at that time as we intended to do. to let you know what happened. this is the choke line off of the capping stack. as you know, this comes out of the assembly and goes up. if you have seen the video, this is that big yellow device with the curved pipe that goes up with the oil coming out of it. it connects back to the capp...

Long time. >> let's hope and pray that it works. doug suttles is the coo, the chief operating officer, of bp. good luck. we taped that interview earlier with mr. suttles. all right. let's dig deeper right now and further appreciate the time line of what has happened today a and cnn's jessica yellin is standing by with more on this part of the story. jessica? >> well, wolf, the oil flow as you remort and doug suttles explains has been shut down in a number of steps, be i we wantut show you the pictures on each step. they cut off the flow, and then started to cut off the valves. this is the fi...

Well can move forward. they are suspended indefinitely now. those tests are vital. they'll determine whether the gush willing could hold up under extreme pressure once the flow of soil stopped. >> david mattingly has been monitoring all the new developments with us this morning. he's live in new orleans. the hopes were so high this 75-ton cap just a few days ago would be able to finally stop the leak. what went wrong? >> well, this is definitely not what he wee wanted to see this morning. we were watch with a lot of hope last night. it was encouraging when they closed the initial ram, the valv...

Stack which stopped the flow directly out of the top of the capping stack. we then closed the kill line. it left a choke lin. and the way this is set up, the choke line is going to have a variable valve we can close slowly and be able to assess the pressure readings as tkwoe that. in the process of doing that, we discovered there was a leak on the choke line. at that point, we terminated -- we terminated the test that the point so we could determine the cause of the leak and repair that. overnight that has been repaired. i'll show where you that is in a minute. we are ready now to restart the ...

Not sort of fake projects where you're building stuff for no reason. jon: liz, thank you very much, good talking to you. jenna: we're starting with a news briefing here in admiral thad allen with an update of what's going on in the gulf. let's listen in: >> consider outcomes, once that was done i gave the order with slight modifications to include some requirements for seismic testing, akao*sing testing, to go ahead and proceed last night. the sequence on how that test proceed was to take the q4000 helix producer off line to have all the oil and hydrocarbons coming up through the blowout preve...