let s update you now on the top stories of the day. day 87 of the gulf oil disaster. bp has replaced a leaking pipe and hopes to resume an important test later on today. the integrity test is intended to determine the well s pressure to see if a new container cap can stop the oil flow. a key senate vote expected today on wall street reform, the final procedural hurdle to be sure that the bill moves on to president obama for signing next week. the vatican is vee leasing a new rule book making it easier to punish pedophile priests and other abusive clergy members. looks like the new rules shore up the existing practices not rewrite the entire approach. think about your body, where your body fat is. where your body fat is on your body could affect your memory.
(voice 2) they re pinging more targets. (voice 3) isolate. prevent damage. (voice 2) got em. (voice 3) great exercise guys. let s run it again. let s check your top stories now here on cnn. day 87 of the gulf of mexico oil disaster. bp placed the leaking pipe and hopes to resume an important well test today they replaced a leaking pipe today. the integrity test is intended to determine the well s pressure to see if a new container cap can stop the flow of oil. the product safety commissions that approved new mandatory design features for
officials that had some concerns about the process and then by a leaking pipe. but they have dealt with those issues and now they have started this test. and essentially, it s a pressure test to see if this cap can withstand the pressure of the well. they have shut down the surface containment systems. they are going to be shutting down the valves on that cap. and then they re going to be looking at pressure readings. and as you heard thad allen mention in that sound bite, they want to see high pressure, because low pressure would indicate to them that they have a leak somewhere else that they need to deal with. now, they will be assessing it every six hours, taking a look at what information they ve gleaned. they re planning to run this test for 48 hours. and at the end of that time, they will then evaluate what the next best step should be. and essentially, there are two ways that this cap can be used. one, it can be used to shut in that well. if they find that it can withstand the p
well, and where i am at the port of new orleans auditorium, admiral thad allen will speak within the hour, giving an update about the relief well progress, specifically, addressing the questions of look, if we re only maybe 12 feet away from the actual leaking pipe, but 300 feet down from where they want to intercept, why not just cut across and hit the 12 feet across now. he s going to explain why that is actually not the smartest way to do this. that s coming up in the hour. martha: we ll wait for that, thank you very much, phil keating, that news conference phil was talking about will be streaming live on our website, fox news.com, so go to our page and find that link, watch that conference live while you re watching the show on your tv. gregg: multi tasking. lots of screens on fox news and foxnews.com. it was the summer that town halls took the country by storm. last year, scenes scenes
long-term solution relies on drilling relief wells and killing it. as a neuro surgeon, it s annoying when someone says it isn t brain surgery, but it s close. tom foreman is here with the details. tom? thanks, sanjay. drilling down. look at this as we dive down here and contemplate what we re talking about. you re going through all of this, all in the hopes of hitting something about the size of a dinner plate. that s how big the leaking pipe is all the way down where they re trying to hit it. that s a massive technological challenge. so what if they miss? then what? well, for starters, they can try again. these are the relief wells we ve been talking about all this time. if they were to miss this, the one that s closest down here, they can try again. this drill can be repositioned and they can take stab after