>> reporter: right. it is interesting, too, because early on in the day, as many of the briefings as we had originally started to have started the integrity test tuesday morning and it has been delayed and delay and woke up this morning experiencing the same delay with all of the briefings, but today, the bp officials sounded much more confident an felt like they were ready to move ahead. so i imagine that they were ready to get going with all of this. >> ed lavendara, standby, because we will come back to you. we are going the go to chad meyers who is getting more insight as to the breaking news we are following right now. the formal test has started and we are assessing whether this will succeed or fail. and we will also go to the white house, because they are weighing in on what is going on and the officials have been briefed by thad allen and standby. also, coming up a debate. the naacp says that the tea party movement harbors racists, and the tea party activists