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Leak in the gulf. the oil company put a new containment system in place and it is now waiting for a government green light to test this thing. to date between 95 and 180 million gallons of oil have spilled into the gulf. can you even get your arms around that? just over 33 million gallons have been recovered. brian wilson live in gulf shores, alabama. there is another delay in stopping the boil. -- oil, how are the people taking this latest news. >> reporter: there is a great deal of frustration, megyn. we are very excited about the possibility that maybe, just maybe it was coming to an end th...

They would move that containment system back in and try to siphon up the oil just like they've been doing. what they don't want to do is have another oil leak somewhere on the sea floor. but the real killer of this well will be the relief well. and that is several weeks away now. it's only about -- the drill bit is only about 100 feet away from puncturing the casing that would kill the well at the bottom of the well. the only known way to stop this disaster in the gulf of mexico. norah? >> thanks, charles. and for the latest updates and analysis on the gulf oil spill disaster, you can always...

What they have yet. and as i said, the good news is, at least no oil is going into the gulf. >> and ann, what they're testing though is whether they can keep this sealed off for good, correct? because even worse case scenario at this point, they now have a controlled way to keep some oil flowing up to a containment system, correct? so overall, there's still a lot of success here, right? >> reporter: right. there is. originally this cap was designed to help move the oil up to the surface. it wasn't designed to shut in the well. they decided to try to shut in the well and do this well integrity ...

Barrels of oil a day, siphoning it up to the surface, just like we've been watching over the last few months. why they would change that, we don't know. but it's obviously a point the obama administration is going to have to make sometime today and doug suttles says it may be a case where we do it day by day, hour by hour, continue with the cap. if there's any signs of trouble, then switch over to the containment system. right now the cap is holding but the admiral says it may come off later today. >> all right. we'll be watching, charles. thanks. >> reporter: sure. >> msnbc.com has an incredi...

Containing the oil and they say they can do that fairly quickly. the q4,000 and the helix producer, two of the vessels are already out at the site. they've got the discover enterprise there and it's got a cap that could go on top of this new sealing cap that exists. they've got a lot of ways to go. when they do get the containment system fully up and running, it can capture up to 80,000 barrels a day which is 20,000 barrels more than what the government thinks is flowing out at the high end. >> ann, have we made a technological leap here, for instance, we're having this debate in the gulf abou...