." >>> hi, everybody, good evening, a aim soledad o'brien sitting in for larry tonight. as you just heard, we seeing where things stand six moments after the big quake in haiti. but first, breaking news about the situation in the gulf to get to bp has placed a new containment cap on the leaking oil well. it might completely contain the gushing oil. so let's go right to cnn's ed lavandera. he has the latest for us. hey, ed. >> reporter: hey, sole dad. might is still the operative word here but admiral thad allen saying things are significantly moving in the right direction. bp says they are pleased with the way things are moving and we know that that containment cap is now in place. there is still oil that is leaking from that cap. that's because there's a valve on top of it that they will begin to shut down. testing begins on this containment cap tomorrow morning, on tuesday morning. it is expected to take anywhere between 6 and 48 hours. after that, we will really get a sense of whether or not this is going to be effective. so, very critical moments here and obviously g