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Massive asteroid that could be as old as the solar system itself. and we'll revisit the gulf disaster in my "xyz." looking back on this roller-coaster ride and looking ahead to a very uncertain future. let's get start r stathd for you in the gulf. we're looking at the very latest. the newest containment cap that they have tried to put in a mile underneath the sea, supposedly going to be the most encouraging news from the spill site after the last 84 days. these are 12 different routers we're watching. some are active, some aren't. the one on the lower right-hand side is the top of this new s...

Police officer's uniform that a tradition armor doesn't cover. that's your big "i" for the day. coming up after the break, we'll give you the very latest on what's happening in the gulf oil recovery. how are they doing in terms of the number of barrels? and the key containment cap that is brand new, is it working?

That's happening there in the gulf. live in new orleans. ed, what is the latest? we have been watching this video. what are you hearing now in terms of what's happening underneath the sea? >> reporter: you summed it up really well. what we are hearing, waiting to hear from bp right now, just how far along they are moving with that new containment cap. they say they have been making good progress in bringing it closer to the site of where so much oil is spewing. to do this step, they have cut off back on saturday, they removed the other containment cap which wasn't containing everything. but th...

The period of time, this week mean that they're able to stop the oil using this, possibly. bp says the work, though, to install this new cap is ahead of schedule. that's good news. it could be in place sometime today if everything comes to pass. oil has been gushing freely over the last 48 hours as they remove that old containment cap and put in this onew one. once the smaller, tight-fitting cap is in place, it could contain most if not all of the oil that is spewing out of the broken wellhead. some of the animations here showing what they are going through at this moment as well as the coming...

Bp says the new fix will be temporary. the two relief wells being drilled in the long-term permanent solution just moments ago when bp's chief operating office says the first relief well is five feet away from the main well. the response cost now is $3.5 billion. president obama's seven-member national oil spill commission will hold the first public meeting later this morning. cnn's ed lavenderra is live with the latest. is there any hope that the latest containment cap is actually going to work? >> reporter: the feeling is we have been down the road several times on the engineering front in...