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Blowout preventer. are they an indication of methane? they're testing for that. the third problem is a small leak in the flange of the capping stack. that essentially is the bottom of the ceiling cap. and they don't seem too concerned about that. so, the government green lighted this test to go ahead for another 24 hours which takes us to about mid afternoon today. and we'll see if they get another 24 hours. but in the meantime, bp has announced yet another plan b. i call this one plan b to about the 20th power. it is called "static kill" and it is a version of top kill you'll remember. and es...

To refresher courses on chemistry and biology. abc's john hendren points out five lessons learned. >> reporter: the oil spill has brought us new phrases. top cap. top kill. blowout preventer. junk shot. but over the past three months it's also given us a litany of fascinating oil trivia that you probably never knew, and now won't be able to get out of your he >> no, i didn't know that. >> reporter: here are our top five things we've learned from llgulfco. number one, oil evaporates. who knew that much of the oil in these waters dissipates within days? still, scientists say the small percentage...

Control, and the well -- relief well finished. so it's a mixed bag of feelings here with business owners, with residents and tourists. they want to put their hope into this, but they have also been through a lot over these nearly three months of top kill and other things that they have tried down there. so they're not going to get, you know, their hopes up too high. but they also say this is the key. there's a lot of oil already out there, they know they're going to have to deal with in the coming months. and if they get this fixed, it will be a big help, but not the end. >> all right. and mic...

>> yes. >> yes. >> thank you. this is good news. this is the only good news we've had in 80 plus days. i'm a little happy here. >> you should be down here. there's been no good news here. >> anne, great to see you. thanks for coming in on "hardball." bab cavnar is an executive with the oil industry. just confirms. it seems optimistically they'll either cap it off with this new technology they've applied today, or they'll be able to divert it up to the ships and not spew any more oil into the gulf. is that the way you read it? >> that's exactly right, chris. they have the two options of shuttin...

Orderinger them. i would rather push supply than waiting for a demand we can't answer. >> hi. thank you. if the pressure is low at the top of the well zrk that indicate that oil is flowing out through some other point of the well and if so, what are the theories on where it's escaping? >> that's what we're going to try to determine from the pressure. one could make a case that there are issues with the casing and wellbore itself. i don't think we'll know that until we take the pressure readings and see where that information takes us. it is unknown what happened to that wellbore. at the time o...