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welcome, everybody. our "starting point" is this breaking news. two american tourists have been kidnapped in dahab, egypt, in the sinai region. the kidnappers, it appears, are trying to negotiate some sort of prisoner exchange. jill daugherty joins us. what do we know? >> the state department is in touch with the families of these two people. names have not been given. they're 31 years old. the state department is providing counselor services and they are in touch and working very closely with egyptian authorities to try to resolve this. essentially, what happened, these two people, ...

So they like the way things are moving at this point. but as you heard the president mention, so far no decisions made as to exactly what will happen after this integrity test is over. but the longer it goes, the better news that is. it is clear that that gives the scientists, the experts many more options in their decision making as they move forward. they are doing a series of seismic testing, sonar testing to kind of gauge the integrity of all that ground around where that blowout preventer is. they say they want to make sure that pressure does not damage that. that is the critical part so ...

He says it's rising at a rate that's consistent with the well that is in good shape. but this time, at this time the pressure is sort of an in between phase that raises some questions. they're wondering if there might be a lower pressure in this well than they anticipated because possibly it might be depleted. it also raises the question, are we leaking somewhere? so what they're doing, they're going to proceed now with another six-hour period of testing where they're going to let the pressure continue to come up but watch it even more closely. they're bringing more resources into the area. th...