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Through here. so kind of give you a sense of what to look for in the coming hours. say around 2:00 eastern time, this test started. so i suspect if everything goes the way we've been told, about 8:00 tonight, they will get the first pressure readings and start comparing notes. so remember, this is a 48-hour test. at 8:00, it doesn't mean it will last 48 hours. they have said that if they get some really bad readings, they can shut this down at any point. if those pressure readings are not where they want them to be, remember, this all has to do with that well casing that goes deep, deep into t...

Kill is the way to go which is what the relief well will be classified as. >> so how fearful should we be about the structural integrity of that entire well? i doubt that it's degrading at this point. but let's say if we put a big valve on top of the blowout preventer and turned it shut, that would put a tremendous amount of back pressure on to that casing, well casing. and that might be a bad idea at this point. >> i suspect it would be. all right. thank you for your expertise. thanks for the work you're doing. >> thank you. as the oil spill gets closer to their town, residence are fighting...

Over daily oversight of the company's response in the gulf of mexico. hayward will hand over control of gulf coast operations to robert dudley who's been bp's managing director since 2009. meantime, bp says one of two relief wells it's drilling to finally stop the gushing oil is now within 200 feet of that blown out well. nbc's charles hadlock joins us live from louisiana. what more can you tell us about that developing story? >> reporter: this relief well is now about 10,000 feet below the floor of the gulf of mexico and inching closer to that well casing that is now gushing the oil. experts ...

Way to go which is what the relief well is classified as. >> and how fearful should we be about the structural integrity of that entire well? >> well, i think -- i doubt that it is degrading at this point, but that if, let's say if we put a big valve on top of the blowout preventer and drilled it shut, that would put a tremendous amount of pressure on the well casing and that might be a bad idea at this point. >> i suspect it would be. steven wereley, thank you for your expertise and thank you for your work you are doing in the operation as well. republican congresswoman michele bachmann thi...

In 2008, cabbott oil and gas drilled a well 1,000 feet from his demick, pennsylvania. a month later his water well was contaminated. >> my daughter would get in the shower before school and she'd have to lay outen the floor and thought she would pass out because of methane in water. >> they cited cabbott for a faulty well casing that allowed gas to contaminate the aqua for. cabbott supply fresh water to the neighbors they settled with the state for $4.1 million. >> we believe that america does need to seek out the own natural resources. they leased acreage to east resources hoping for big roya...