on july 15th. once the cement drys, the well will be dead and incapable of releasing anymore oil. pressure tests will be conducted to see if it s affective. the u.s. supreme court is the last hope for a virginia woman an death row. brian todd that has story. reporter: from virginia east death row, teresa sings for divine intervention. reporter: no miracles, yet. virginia governor refuses to slay the execution. if the supreme court doesn t intervene, lewis will die by lethal injection next thursday. i spoke with her before the ruling. because of the sensitivity of the case, it s limited to predetermined questions for her. we are not allowed to bring cameras into the facility where
reporter: martha, we should point out it s taken bp nearly five months to issue its findings and in this 200 plus page report, bp does take some of the blame, but the oil giant is also pointing fingers. for example, bp says the cement that was used on this well failed to keep the hydrocarbons within the reservoir, the hydrocarbons, of course, the natural gases, and pointing out that failure, bp is implicating halliburton, the company that set the cement. bp is also saying that the pressure tests to determine the well s stability were misread not only by bp employees but also by transocean employees. remember, transocean owns the deepwater horizon rig that sank, the bp folks were just leasing that rig. also, bp is saying that over a 40-minute period or so the transocean employees failed to recognize and react to those hydrocarbons and in doing so, when they actually did, they say that key pieces of equipment like the blowout preventer which was manufactured by a company, cameron inter
house had remained silent on this one, even if he is trying to recalibrate, as the white house says, the message here because they re not talking about health care reform or the company getting any better and they are off-message and democrats feel it will hurt them in the weeks to come but we ll see if had hurts them in the midterm elections. day 119 since the gulf oil disaster. the job to permanently seal it is on hold. additional pressure tests are being taken before bp gets the go-ahead to finish the relief well. it will take a few days to review the results and up to four more days before the relief well actually intersects the well. tourist industry has taken a huge hit. reynolds wolf joins frus gulf shores, alabama to talk about the recovery plans. reporter: share s hoping that they re going to finish this week with the relief well and
shot, huh? president obama takes a dip with his daughter sasha, sending out a measure that gulf beaches are back but it got lost in translation, overshadowed by his comments on the proposed islamic center and mosque near ground zero. first, louisiana seafood, is it safe now? reynolds wolf joining us with an oil and seafood update. if the seafood is safe, we need to get the word out on that. reporter: absolutely. one of the things that helps to reinforce that is finishing up the well. today they re going to be conducting pressure tests inside the well. results should be in later this afternoon, possibly tomorrow. once the tests come in, if favorable, they proceed with the relief wells and bottom kill operation. the relief well, if they resume
so come visit, but now at the same time there is news to report about the well. no, oil is not leaking, but reynolds wolf is there, and we could be a week away from being done with this thing. when i say done with this thing, we are talking about just the well itself, we could be a week away. reporter: i would say if this were a horse race we would be in the home stretch. we are close to the finish line. we may have a few obstacles, and we will get to that in a few minutes. let s start off with the telephone conference with admiral. the first thing they plan on doing is to finish the relief well. and the second objective is to complete the bottom kill. but before we get to that point he wants to release an order to bp where he wants to conduct pressure tests inside the well head itself and if the pressure readings seem okay they will