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A barge carrying a huge metal and concrete box is expected to arrive at the leak site within a matter of hours. engineers hope that 98-ton dome can control the spewing oil, but this is something that has never been tested. never been tried before. nbc news correspondent mike taibbi is live in biloxi, mississippi. how soon will we know if this is working? >> reporter: hi, peter. how are you? it's actually going to be a couple of days. i just spoke with somebody from bp who explained that yesterday, the device is out there. they're calling it a big box, that 98-ton smenlt and steel structure tha...

Surface and help mitigate any impact to the environment. >> you said it funnels oil to the surface, basically it sucks it up and then what? where does the oil go? >> well, they'll be a drill ship on the surface, and the containment system will be connected with a pipe from the containment system all the way to the drill ship, where the oil will be taken off and put onto the ship and collected and captured there. so, it will help to, you know, it will help to minimize the impact into the ocean. >> how much at one time can it handle? >> the drill ship i think is capable of -- has storage capacit...

Barge. bp says the funnel should be hooked up to a drill ship over the weekend. another control burn is also set for today. wins allowing. federal prosecutors are appealing a judge's order to release nine jailed members of a michigan militia. the suspects are accused of conspiring to wage war against the government. the judge initially orders the suspects released until trial but suspended her decision. the fda says mcneil consumer health care knowingly used bacteria-contaminated materials to make medicines that are now being recalled. the company announced the recall of more than 40 types...

State of tennessee stands at 19. >> martin, thanks so much. we're crossing the half hour. prosecutors say the suspected times square bomber faisal shahzad is talking and admitted he got bomb-making training in pakistan. there it blows again, the iceland volcano. what was the name again? causing more trouble for flyers over europe. a new ash cloud forcing british officials to close down air space over northern ireland and scotland this morning. the leading edges of the oil spill grazing the shoreline. bp expects to lower a metal container over the biggest leak this week and the goal is to...

And later it was supposed to move off from this site pretty soon after and then they bring in a platform to start actually pumping the oil and gas out. >> is this fixed to the ocean, or does it float? >> this particular one floated, and it would use, like, dynamic positioning they call it basically, motors to, you know, propellers to keep it in place. some of them used big mooring cables, but this didn't use that. >> where are we getting the calculation of the amount of oil that could be leaking into the gulf of mexico? this is a drill ship. they weren't actually extracting oil, right? >> no, ...