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Causing this disaster in the first place. they're looking at putting on a new blowout preventer. they're also looking at filling the leaking pipe with solid material. now, both of these carry risks that could end up making the leak even worse. so right now they are concentrating on making their first option work. this containment dome that will sit over the largest of the two remaining leaks at the bottom of the ocean. they hope to be able to siphon that oil off to containment vessels on the top and prevent this disaster from getting any bigger while they look for, while they continue to drill...

Want to update your top stories now. hopes dashed today of a quick fix to that gulf oil spill. a large metal dome lowered nearly a mile down to cover up the leaking pipe had to be removed when ice-like material clogged up the dome. the structure was meant to act like a funnel and captured much of the escaping oil. a pipe would then bring it to surface. it could take several days to overcome today's setback. at least 19 airports are shut down in spain today because of the ash spewing from that volcano in iceland. those closures include the country's second biggest hub in barcelona. that ash p...

Plan a, to shut it off didn't exactly work. that blowout preventer not activating. so now time for plan b, the dome. that they say is still days away. cnn's brian todd has more. >> reporter: i'm brian todd in port fourchon, louisiana, where we have access to something we've never seen before because they've never tried it before. this box-like structure is called the pollution containment chamber. that so-called dome that we've been talking about for the last few days. it is under construction here and they've been working on it for about a week, 24/7, trying to get it ready to be lowered down...

Cleanup. but the price has already topped $34 billion and will go much, much higher. >> so far, bp has filled to seal the gushing well n deep underwater, chemical disperse sants have had some success breaking up the oil so so it drop to the ocean floor. they have huge containment domes they have been building ready to ship out to the site as soon as tomorrow night. once in place, possibly by the weekend they hope to pump out some of the leaking oil. >> this weighs about 100 tons it is about 40 feet tall, 15 feet wide. this is the dome that they are going to lower on top of this leaking pipe, s...

Know, real vivid form. we have a live picture of it for the first time. you see those guys up there on the top of it? they have been working here for more than a week, 25 to 30 people working 24/7 to get this thing constructed. this is about 40 feet high, it's about 15 feet wide. and it's supposed to go down into the ocean, into the bottom of the ocean, where it will lock on to the leaking pipe and straddle it, and it will also dig about 15 feet below the floor of the ocean to kind of latch on to the ocean floor. the idea being that this will essentially capture the oil as it comes out of the ...