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Experts and scientists involved in this in a unified way, not just a bp estimate, the coast guard and government agencies as well. it's somewhat inexact. there is no question about it. but 70,000 feels like a little exaggeration, a little scare-mongering. >> admiral thad allen who is overseeing the federal response for this said he is now also not too concerned about the estimates or what's happening. he says the amount of resources that the federal government is throwing at this and also bp is throwing at this doesn't really -- they're not too concerned about what the estimates are. he's thro...

Sea with that oil spewing from a broken pipe. bp finally released this video after pressure from the white house and news operations. the slick is still sitting there in the gulf. noaa says southeasterly winds could push the oil closer to the mississippi delta. our nbc news correspondent is in dauphin island, alabama. >> reporter: right now, there's still petroleum to see if there are any more datar balls. those didn't test positive as relating to the oil spill. all eyes right now are off the coast of louisiana at that spill point as you had mentioned. the company, bp, is now trying to lower a...

Collector dome putting it on top of the leak and attaching all the pipes to it. that allowed the hydrate to build up. it clogged the exit pipeline. so what they are doing right now all day today, they are going to be using the underwater robots to connect the two hoses to the top and that will allow hot methane, hot water and methane to be pumped down to the top hat dome in an effort to keep it warm enough down there that you won't have the slushy buildup this time around. also the pipeline connecting the top hat up to the ship will be two pipes in one. and that will allow the outer pipe to be...

Washing up on shore? >> reporter: that was on saturday. right now, the national guard is laying down these large containment boxes and the purpose is to absorb any oil sheen. they found six and they are now being tested to see where they came from. west of here at the oil leak, bp is now trying to consider other options after the dome failed to do its purpose here and they're trying to figure out the best option to plug up that leak. one is a top hat dome. that's going to be a smaller dome that's going to be lowered down into that blowout preventer. the other option is what they call the junk ...

Actually cap this. they're going to try to bring in what they call the top hat dome. that's going to be a smaller containment dome that's going to be moved on top of that leak point off the coast of louisiana. that's supposed to be lowered on thursday. then they're also talking about this option, junk shot option probably another week away. potentially choosing that option as well. that's going to be a controlled blast of debris that's going to go down to the leak point. a lot of this right now is still up in the air. meanwhile here on dauphin island they're preparing for any type of potential...