weapons program, their missile program, especially their icbm program. the intercontinental program that allows them to hit the united states. in order to get them to do that, we need to really raise this economic pressure level. and that s going to require cooperation from all parties. so i do think it s achievable if we re steady about it. if we tone down the rhetoric and we work together. so i do believe in congress, you re going to have a bipartisan effort to really enforce the u.n. sanctions and make sure that china, especially, is serious about doing it. we saw that china was cutting down on the trade that was coming across the chinese north korean border, but we continue to get reports that chinese banks and financial institutions are used as conduits for north korea. they continue to supply oil to north korea, which is really
aircraft in case of water. in case of water. but we look at the distance here, we re talk mortgage than 14,000 feet below the surface. a few miles. the empire state building looks like a speck. this is huge. this is deeper than the titanic. what about the pressure level? yesterday somebody was explaining to me as putting a cadillac escalade on top of your fingernail. could it be intact down this with that kind of pressure? have asked that question a million times. everybody says it s the metal. yes, if you put a tin can down there, it will crush. but for some reason you put the titanic down there, it doesn t crush. miles do, you know the answer to that question? i think it s a question. the pressure differential is the key. as long as there has been a breach, i think you d find it intact. no, because i can t help feeling that it still would have crushed whatever like a window would have popped out.
reporter: they are, norah. if all goes according to plan, this test should end about midday today. and throughout the night, engineers and scientists at the houston command center kept doing their calculations trying to figure out what the pressure levels inside this ceiling cap really mean. you can see the difference on the surface above the damaged well. the flames of the discoverer enterprise and q-4000 are out. the crude is not flowing, but there are concerns. i think we re to a point where there s enough uncertainty regarding what the meaning of the pressure is that we re seeing that we need to have due diligence moving forward. and we need to be careful not to do any harm. reporter: after the first 24 hours, the pressure level read 6,700 pound per square inch, an inconclusive reading that could mean so much oil has already flowed out that the pressure is lower than expected, or there is a leak underground.