this is a containment strategy, this is not designed to fix the problem completely. and the president near the end of his remarks in the rose garden today tried to drive that message home. let s take a quick listen. there were a lot of reports coming out in the media that seemed to indicate, well maybe this thing is done. we won t be done until we actually know that we ve killed the well, and that we have a permanent solution in place. we re moving in that direction, but i don t want us to get too far ahead of ourselves. reporter: exactly, that is the message the white house wants to convey as the president and first family head off to maine for a weekend vacation. they do believe the containment strategy will allow more oil to be contained and isolated up to 80,000 barrels per day, more than ever before but they say it s not the ultimate solution and they have pressure testing to go, so they are trying to be cautious. jon: you kind of get the impression that the white house doesn
turns out that we can t keep the containment cap onto completely stop the oil it s going to allow us to capture much more oil and we ll see less oil flowing into the gulf. jon: senior white house correspondent major garrett is here with more . that s the optimistic side of the story. the president is trying to tamp down public enthusiasm, why? reporter: this has been an economic, ecological crisis and also a visual one. the country has, as soon as bp made available a few days after the spill those images from the seafloor of the spilling natural gas and oil, a visual crisis for the country. that has told the country all it needed to know or much of the bad news. from almost the moment yesterday when the country began to see no oil flowing here at the white house they were saying yes that looks great, but don t jump to conclusions. we have pressure testing to do and we re not sure if the cap is going to work in it s totality.
call today and mention i.d. alert. or go to lifelock.com. jenna: hi, everybody, hope you re off to a good friday, i m jenna lee. jon: and i m jon scott. a bit of good news on day 88 of the oil disaster. the broken well a mile below the surface of the gulf is not gushing oil 24 hours after the last of the caps was closed. bp encouraged by results so far showing pressure inside the cap is a okay, no new signs of any leaks. president obama a short while ago. here is the good news that i think everybody needs to understand. even if it turns out that we can t maintain this cap and completely shut off the flow of oil, what the new cap allows us to do is to essentially attach
oil from flowing into the gulf. right now, bp says it s capturing most of the oil. and we re watching the big board today. stocks opening lower. it s been tough so far. the dow is down almost 200 points. tough earnings news from some of the largest companies and a lack of consumer confidence as we. jon: doesn t look good. a couple of states are backtracking, after plans were revealed that would allow federal use of money for abortions. molly henneberg is reporting live from washington. so molly, will states actually be able to use federal tax dollars in these high risk insurance pools to pay for abortion? hi jon. the department of health and human services now says no, although states such as mu neck s and pennsylvania have said initially abortion would be covered in the high-risk plans. for uninsured people who have preexisting conditions. the states have reversed coarse. course. president obama signed an executive order saying no federal dollars could be used to abortion in a
jon: bp now admits it lobbied for the release of a libyan man convicted in the pan am bombing over lockerbie, scotland that killed 270 people, most americans. libya gave bp a major exploration contract after he was set free. well now the british ambassador says the decision to release him was a mistake, but he insists bp was not involved in the release. jenna: in kashmir, government forces using tear gas on crowds to prevent rioting there, police firing the gas at scores of protessers throwing stones, this after friday prayers. the crowds, running away as the canisters of gas explode. the mostly muslim region has been under rolling curfews for the past three weeks after antiindia street protests killed 15 people. jon: well, it appears apple has some explaining to do. in a couple of hours the company is holding a news conference conference, the tech giant is catching all kinds of static you probably know for its new