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As it goes back out, some of it will go back out. some of it will lay right there. we have a possible natural disaster on top of a manmade disaster, a tough cocktail for the people here, but when you talk to fishermen, you realize no matter what comes at them, they re here to stay. bret? bret: steve harrigan live in new orleans. thanks. back in washington, senators want to know how the president s reaction to the oil spill is affecting the gulf and its people. chief washington correspondent jim angle has that part of the story. reporter: as lawmakers press interior secretary ken salazar about the reorganization of the federal agency that overseas offshore drilling he offered rare optimism on bringing the spill under control. we see a light at the end of the tunnel. there is a shut-in that occurred with the well and monitoring we require of b.p. has shown it s holding. reporter: but as that ....
Bp may decide to keep the cap in place or re attaattach a riser to take the oil to surface ships. bp says one of two relief wells is now just feet from intercepting the crippled well. it will allow concrete to be pumped in and seal it inside the earth. there are millions of gallons of oil to clean up. this controlled burnout in the gulf was ten miles northeast of the well site. now to the ground with david mattingly. extending the pressure testing of the cap. is it good or bad? reporter: well, don, i m just now getting a message from admiral thad allen, a statement from the head of the operation. he s saying that the test has provided us with valuable information which will inform the procedure to kill the well and a better understanding of options for a temporary shut-in of the well during a hurricane. the fact that they were not able ....
Happening. anger, resignation and among the golf residents, optimism. i hope it works. sigh of relief from both ends of pennsylvania avenue. even if a shut-in is not possible the new cap and the equipment in the gulf will be able to contain up to 80,000 barrels. a day. that should allow us to capture all the oil until the well is killed. glad we got a stop and let s hope it stays that way. make sure we understand what happened so it can never happen again. should the well hold, national incident commander thad allen is expected to order engineers to open valves on the sea floor and begin pumping oil up to containment vessels on the surface. the same time the officials are expected to restart drilling to relief wells allowing b.p. to permanently kill the well sometime by mid-august. ....
reporter: now at the government s assistance, bp has beefed up its monitoring of the ocean floor. it has those remotely operated vehicles with cameras and sonar looking for any signs of a crack in the ocean floor because of the shutting in of the well at this temporary shut-in of the well. they are also doing what s called seismic surveys, trying to give them a map of what s going on. but, again, they are monitoring this very carefully, norah, and we should know perhaps at midday just what they think this test has shown them. okay. well, we ll be watching, anne thompson. thanks so much. and no relief for most of the southwest as extreme heat continues to boil the region. but some rain is expected as thunderstorms sweep through arizona and new mexico. nbc meteorologist bill karins has today s complete forecast. good morning, bill. well, a happy weekend to ....
The white house. i want to give everyone a quick update on the situation in the gulf. as we all know, a new cap was fitted over the bp oil well earlier this week. this larger, more sophisticated cap, was designed to give us greater control over the oil flow as we complete the relief wells that are necessary to stop the leak. now, our scientists and outside experts have met through the night and continue this morning to analyze the data from the well integrity death. what they re working to serm is whether we can safely shut in the well using the new cap without creating new problems, including possibly countless new oil leaks in the seafloor. now, eif a shut-in is not possible, this new cap and the additional equipment being placed in the gulf will be able to contain up to 80,000 barrels ....