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Smaller dome set aside, ready to go. a containment dome, something much smaller than what they tried a week ago. that's their backup plan in case this one does not go through. can you give us more of an idea of this jump shot, david? >> reporter: i don't know who comes up with the names but they are sort of descripted. it tells you what they are. this jump shot is something the industry uses. they essentially shoot a bunch of junk, solid material, golf balls, pieces of tires, things like that, along with liquid into the piping when they have a leak. the idea is to clog if it up. it has worke...

Estimate. they say that measuring it isn't the important job here. it is stopping it. the big dome, top hat, jump shot, it all sounds a little comical. efforts to stop the gusher are no laughing matter. cnn's david mattingly live in new orleans. what is b.p. trying right now to get ahold of this catastrophe? >> reporter: b.p. hoping that today is the day. what they are trying right now is an insertion tube, exactly what it sounds like, inserting a tube inside that massive leaking pipe, that tube would then have a seal around it where they would stop the flow of oil out of the pipe and pump tha...

Event we -- and i would urge us all to remember we're operating in an environment where there is no human access and the only parameters we have are a video presentation and any remote sensing that we can do out there. so while all of that dos and ultimately we'll have to know the extent of the spill for damage assessments and other things. as far as a current response we're on top of everything on the surface and doing a great job so you don't have the impacts here. that needs to continue, but as far as how we're conducting the response, that can run its course and we're attacking it as if it...

And you've got something on -- about facebook as well, launching new security features. some people saying that they're deleting their facebook accounts because of security concerns. i'll have more about that in the coming hour. >> a little bit too much information floating out there. thanks so much, ines. let's get started with our lead story right now. we could know by tonight whether the latest effort to reduce the flow of oil in the gulf of mexico is actually working. bp is inserting a tube into the leaking pipe to try and siphon the oil into a tanker. we expect to hear from president ba...

That in orbit accident there? here is a clip from the academy award winning ron howard film. >> i suggest you gentlemen invent a way to put a square peg in a round hole rapidly. >> okay, people. listen up. the people upstairs handed us this one and we got to come through. we got to find a way to make this fit into the hole for this using nothing but that. >> wow. well, like the astronauts 40 years ago, teams in the gulf disaster are working with what they have under a critical time clock. right now bp says under sea robots working to thread a small tube into the leaking pipe to suck up the cru...