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If they do go forward and go all 48 hours, that would take us to about midday saturday. then they'll decide whether it ç would be a permanent shut-in opportunity or they would turn it back into a containment cap and send it up to the four vessels on the surface of the gulf of mexico. >> just to be clear, in the event they decide to do this, not as a plug but essentially as another means of funneling oil up to the surface, if they are using it as a containment system to funnel oil to the ships on the surface, they will still have to pull those ships in shore and stop the containment effort in ...

Kept on gushing. then there was the massive 4-story containment dome, remember that part, that was supposed to be placed on the top of that leak, ice prevented that from being successful, after that became the top hat method, told by the top kill option, which was funneling thousands of barrels of mud into that leak, again, not successful. fingers crossed that this new containment effort may be the one that finally stops this leak, and then of course, you've already got all the oil that's already in there in the ocean and in the waters, polluting so much and destroying the livelihood of the gu...

Out of the containment effort, not leaking in the gulf of mexico, the oil is still flowing. as far as permanently stopping the leak, it's the process of drilling in the gulf of mexico deep beneath the ocean floor. the first is not expected to be complete until late this month, possibly the middle of next month. only then will b.p. plug the well once and for all with a combination of mud and cement. you come back to the live shot here on grand isle, you can see all of the extensive booming efforts going on here. panning over here, you can see vehicles on the beach and you crews are taking a bre...

Significant as this effort goes on. >> and sebelius talked with cleanup workers during that visit. so let's get the latest on the new containment effort going on. nbc's marra is live wifor us in venice, louisiana. what are we getting from the latest to contain this well? >> good morning, alex. crews are working around the clock now to switch out this containment cap. since about early june, they had a containment cap in place working to collect some of that oil and now they're working to replace it with a more efficient cap. this is called top hat number 10 and it's designed to fully seal of...

Containment cap covering the gushing oil well in the gulf. robots have taken off the existing cap. we'll have more on that in a moment. the coast guard says it will wait for more in-depth testing to find out if oil found on texas beaches is from the spill. the coast guard initially said the tar globs were not from the bp spill but that may have been premature. wild life officials say the first 100 sea turtle hatch lings have been evacuated to florida's east coast. they are the first of several hundred wildlife -- agencies are planning to relocate. the latest on the new containment effort goi...