the reservoir. rob marciano is live for us in orange beach, alabama this morning. how quickly might they decide whether or not this is the way to go and does it pose any risk, rob, because there are concerns about the integrity of the well and if they start pumping down that heavy mud while the top of the well is capped, could they increase the pressure such that they might actually damage it more? reporter: well, that would be the commonsense line of thinking, john. i think you are right about that, and that s probably why they haven t pulled the trigger right away. 24-hour test, then another 24-hour test until they get basically gain more confidence that that well has kept its integrity, without going to leak now for the past five days. the pressure readings, as you remember when they first capped this thing, they anticipated pressure readings to go to 8,000, maybe 9,000 pounds per square inch. right now we re at about 6,800