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Of "why we hate the oil companies." john, as always, i welcome your expertise. what do you make of this? keep it in civilian terms here. they're keeping the cap on. that's good news. what's the worry here? >> well, they're going to take it day by day, which is really important, because credibility and confidence i think are really critical to what the next steps might be. in the case of confidence, there are many people, including in the white house, including the department of energy, who doubt the integrity of the well casing, who believe that the well casing could well be ruptured or damage...

That's national incident commander admiral thad allen announcing the oil leak will remain capped for now. but both bp and the government are on edge. john hoffmeister is a former oil executive and author of "why we hate the oil companies." john, as always, i welcome your expertise. what do you make of these? keep it in civilian terms here. they're keeping the cap on. that's good news. what's the worry here? >> well, they're going to take it day by day, which is really important, because credibility and confidence are really critical to what the next steps might be. in the case of confidence, t...

John hofmeister is a former shell oil executive and author of "why we hate the oil companies." john, as always, i welcome your expertise. what do you make of these? keep it in civilian terms here. they're keeping the cap on. that's good news. what's the worry here? >> well, they're going to take it day by day, which is really important, because credibility and confidence i think are really critical to what the next steps might be. in the case of confidence, there are many people, including in the white house, including the department of energy, who doubt the integrity of the well casing, who b...

Since the disaster began 89 days ago. and in a blow to cleanup efforts, the super skimmer dubbed the a whale has been beached. weeks of testing showed it wasn't collecting enough oil. and the upcoming hours will be critical to see if the well cap will hold. charles hadlock joins us live from venice, louisiana. charles, going to what we learned from that technical briefing we got this morning. >> reporter: well, everyone remains cautiously optimistic. no one is ready to say this is a permanent fix for the well because they could have to take this containment cap off if they find that pressure...

>> why don't we just say, let's give the unemployed more help. it does seem extremely heartless not to help the unemployed. >> i agree with ben. >> i don't think i said that. >> it is heartless. >> larry: that's it for tonight, but we have not heard the last. i think all four of these are going to be back. and we appreciate the new love affair between ben stein and stephanie miller. this is shocking but true. "us" magazine will have it next week. around son cooper now. anderss eerson anderson? >> a high pressure, high stakes underwater job. engineers preparing to shut the valves on top of bp's...