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Massive leak. let's get the details live from venice, louisiana. with a good saturday morning to you, what can you tell us about this new plan? >> reporter: good morning, alex. essentially, what they're trying to do is increase containment to the point that no more oil is leaking into the gulf. so this is about containment. it's not about shutting down that well. and the way that they're going to try to go about doing that is by replacing the current containment cap which has been successful to a degree in capture something oil with a better, more efficient cap with a tighter seal that can cap...

Coming up but is 0100% is wishf thinking. there are so many pieces to the puzzle they're trying to juggle in this operation that it is fraught with risk and anything could go wrong. and given the history here, it probably will. so i think it's a long shot but let's just hope they can. >> let's hope you're right. we have to root for it obviously but if this cap works this weekend. >> right. >> why would it have been the case that we had to wait 81 days for it to work? >> that's probably the $20 billion question, keith. obviously you don't build a fire truck while the house is on fire. you have ...

Burned were whatever it is they decide to do with it. they want to get a better cap on. they're considering removing that containment cap and putting on a cap with a tighter seal. there are a couple different factors that come into play with that. when they remove that cap, does that mean oil spews unchecked into the ocean as it did on day one. do they operate some of the other containment systems simultaneously? we don't have answers to those questions. there's a third system they're trying to put into place. all of this can get confusing. the fact is, they're trying to get a better seal to c...

Million barrels of oil thursday through it's two containment systems. government scientists estimate 35,000 barrels of oil are gushing from the well. it also says it has paid out 39,000 claims totaling $126 million. the average payout per claim, $3,900. nbc's charles hadlock joins us now live from venice, louisiana. bad weather could add to the problems, we have been talking about the possibility of what might turn into a tropical storm, potentially, and i just want to stress potentially heading that way, they're bracing for anything that's possible. >> hurricane hunters are now flying into th...

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