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A 100-ton concrete and steel containment dome that crews will hope will capture most of the oil spilling into the water. chief environmental correspondent anne thompson again for us in venice, louisiana, this morning. anne, high hopes but what about the likelihood this will work? >> reporter: oh, the odds are really against it. this has never been tried before at a depth of 5,000 feet below the sea where this well is leaking and overnight, as you saw on those pictures, very slowly and very carefully they lowered that four-foot-story containment dome down. now b.p. this morning is not saying wh...

Stone unturned, and they are turning over all the stones. >> i know you always worry about contingency plans, assuming, and we hope it succeeds, if the containment plan fails, what's plan "b"? >> we'll have to look at the oil coming ashore and the oil out there, no matter what happens, because we have oil on the water. and the oil has already started to contaminate the chandeleur islands to the east of the louisiana coastline. we're working close with the state and local governments especially the parish presidents in louisiana. i directed our coast guard commanders to work with them to unders...

Coast. david mattingly is live in venice, louisiana, most of the way down the mississippi delta there. dave, the coast guard going out to inspect all of the oil booms today. when that going to happen? >> reporter: well, it's going to be happening just about now. now that the sun is coming up. they're sending crews out. we've been getting reports from fishermen that oil had gotten past some of the containment booms and may have made contact with the land here on the islands off the coast of louisiana. we know that satellite imagery has shown at that sheerngs the oil on top of the water, has bee...

Right now in louisiana, everyone is hoping it's their new superdome. >> very true. we're talking about this giant experimental containment well that's on the way to the gulf. british petroleum is planning to lower the device to capture the oil. >> david mattingly in venice, louisiana this morning, kiran mentioned the word, this really is a bold experiment to try to staunch the flow of oil? >> reporter: that's absolutely true. this is a one of a kind device for a one of a kind job. if this device doesn't work, if somehow this operation fails and it's damaged in its placement, then they don't ha...

Before they're going to try the drilling. the drilling could take months. but this process here, they're going to try and trap this oil, they hope to have that done, well, in a couple days, have that facility on top of that main leak. and then in operation shortly after that. >> david magaziningly for us in venice, louisiana, monitoring all the developments, with them trying to cut flow of oil there on the sea. david, thanks. coming up on the most news in the morning, violence erupts in greece as that country faces financial problems. why americans should be concerned. christine romans is he...