which included the top hat going to the discover enterprise and the q400q4000 connected to the e line represented 25,000 barrels of containment capacity on any given day. sometimes it fluctuates to more or less. the containment capacity in the new structure, the sealing cap, will draw to two different boats and increase the containment capacity from roughly 15,000 to between 20,000 and 30,000. the helix producer which is not related to the sealing cap was coming online separately. we made the sealing cap and helix producer movements happen together rather than separately as was originally called for but changed because of weather.
let s hear what he has to say. he s talking about uganda and the terrible attacks there. theeaders reassured their shared commitment to working together to combat terrorist organizations that threaten innocent civilians around the world. mr. feller? just to follow on that point, is there any specific assistance the u.s. is providing at this point? i m told that the fbi will assist in the investigation of the bombings yesterday. on the oil spill, obviously bp is working on this new cap today. what s the view from the white house? how confident are you all that this is going to work? well, let s take this in a couple different stages. the containment capacity prior to let s go through friday
order to get a cap. that s exactly right. the big picture idea here is that this is a big deal. we re at a crucial point in this juncture, as you ve been saying, we re 82 days into this oil spill. with the replacement of the formerly existing cap that they took off earlier today to put on a new cap. this could be the best development we ve seen yet. in the entire timeline. now, this could take up to four to seven days from start to finish. again, they began this removal process earlier today. but it could be by the end of next week, we could see this well capped. and you ve been following the developments all day. you ve heard some of the officials at bp and people out there, they re very hopeful about this. this may be their last chance, they said august, but you re saying a couple of days, but they re very hopeful at least? it s important to make two distinctions here. while they re hoping to, what they call shut in the well, contain it the best they can, at the same time basic
contain it as best they can, at the same time double the containment capacity here. the eventual result will still be to kill the well. we shall see. thank you for following this story for us. vivi vivian kuo. nice job. a lot manufacture oil is going to escape into the gulf of mexico before it s all over. we re joined in waveland, mississippi. and as local officials were worried about oil getting into the marsh and it appears it ee happened now. reporter: yeah. it happened with the marsh right behind me. you ll see a couple of days ago they had the high tides and oil and wind and water reach just above the brown line on the grass. why this is so critical, the marsh is where you have shrimp and crab that actually lay their eggs here. so it s a very, very delicate area. it s very difficult to clean up this area because you can t step
black and stayed black for mile after mile with smaller pools of rainbow and metallic colors. it was darker and thicker as we got closer to the site, which is marked by the two giant flames which are burning 9,000 barrels of oil every day. there are a dozen large vessels in the area including the q-4,000 and enterprise to collect the oil from 5,000 feet from the surface. he lix producer is there, the third ship supposed to double the containment capacity hooked up. that won t probably happen to next week. we didn t see the skimmers that could be scooping the oil off the surface. grounded by the rough weather earlier in the week. we flew with the deputy incident commanders nathan knapp with the coast guard and he explained why the skimmers weren t back at work yet. they re not fast boats, they re built for a mission, that s oil skimming. they don t get here quickly