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Good evening, everyone. tonight in the gulf of mexico the latest attempt to reduce that flow of oil may already be under way at this hour. bp hopes to start siphoning oil away from the gusher tonight using a mile-long tube to transfer oil to a ship. the strategy is designed to minimize the oil leak. it's still too soon to predict when the leak might be completely sealed. let's turn to cnn's david mattingly. he joins us from new orleans. david, anything new on the efforts to insert that tube into the leak now? >> reporter: only that tonight is the night that bp thinks they're finally going to g...

>> reporter: what we ran into last night says bp was a little bit of a setback. they have the insertion tube ready to go, ready to insert into the leaking pipe at the bottom of the gulf of mexico. but the frame around it, they had to bring it up to the surface again last night to make some adjustments because they weren't able to connect the hose or the pipe that is going to siphon off all that oil up to a surface vessel to contain the oil. so, they're going to -- they had to take it up, made some adjustments, they're going to try again this evening, they hope to have it operational sometime t...

Weekend. he says that combination could collect all the leaking oil, 60 to 80,000 barrels a day by government estimation. so, for the first time in almost three months, oil will gush but not into the gulf. or that's the hope. phil keating live at the port of new orleans tonight. phil, how is this supposed to work. >> got a window of good weather over the next week and ten days. hopefully with that and a lot of good fortune finally have long overdue great news. this the existing cap that's on the leaking pipe is going to be removed. that means for three or four days, oil and methane gas will be...

To seal up. they hope to collect most of the oil that's coming out of there and trap, it send it up to a containment vessel on the surface. so far they have not been able to do that. they failed in the attempt to put a containment dome over it. that cost them more than a week. and now this one is the one that they're going for. they have something set aside just in case this doesn't work. but they are trying to make this insertion tube the solution to the problem that they've had now for weeks. >> did they tell you what is, david, is set aside, or are they keeping that to themselves? >> report...

Good evening, everyone. tonight in the gulf of mexico the latest attempt to reduce that flow of oil may already be under way at this hour. bp hopes to start siphoning away oil from the gusher using a mile-long tube to transfer the oil to a ship. it is too soon to predict when the leak might be completely sealed. let's turn to david mattingly. he joins us from new orleans. david, anything new on the efforts to insert the tube into the leak now? >> reporter: only that tonight is the night that bp thinks they are finally going to get this right. they said that last night. they encountered a probl...