case, and agreed based on new evidence that it should be reviewed. once again, within the hour, we ll be going to the white house directly to hear what they have got to say about it. and our senior white house correspondent, ed henry, is there in the briefing room. and he will be there for it. he ll bring us an update as soon as we ve got one on that. we ve also got some stuff developing in weather. let s go to chad myers. he s standing by to tell us a little bit about what we can expect. what s happening, chad? well, there s a little tropical wave that tried to occur yesterday. it tried to pop up and this morning, it s very unimpressive. we have a lot of shear through here. you have to understand that shear is great for a severe thunderstorm. when a severe thunderstorm pops up, it wants to be sheared off with this anvil cloud that you see sometimes charge way out ahead of it. and that s good, because then some of the hail falls out and the storm gets bigger bigger and bigger. shea
on. if a hurricane moves into here, they ve got to be making preparations now. right? they ve got to have a few days lead to get people out who are still in the gulf? sure. and the cap thing is the best possible scenario that it s working. because they re not pumping any oil out of it right now. if they were pumping, then all of a sudden they would have to shut the pumps off and all the oil would keep going. the reason why they wanted to cap this thing this temporary cap call it temporary cap in the first place is in case a hurricane comes. so now we did it before the hurricane came. and so that the the best possible scenario is out there. and a story that hasn t had a lot of good twists, this might be one of them. pressure is still rising, we re going through this. the pressure is still rising, that s a good sign. we don t see any leaks, no oil is leaking from the ocean floor. okay. we ll be back with you for lots and lots of different parts of this, because we ve got a