permanent one. as it works, the new cap, we re told, will collect more oil than the old one, but it will cause new problems. a little concern. tom foreman joining me now to explain how this will all work. hi. these are the big things to watch this weekend. you have a containment cap down here. collecting the oil. see the pictures of it all time with the oil gushing out from around the sides. there are vents that are open on the side there to let some oil out so they don t have too much pressure to blow it off because it s sitting there. that s what s happening right now. that oil is coming up to a ship above here. they also have oil coming out of a vent in the side here up to another ship and this weekend they re trying to move another ship in to place. they re hoping to maybe add a fourth. overall, this will increase the containment of oil here from right now around 23,000 barrels a day to hopefully 50,000 barrels a day. that brings us to the other important thing to watch
which chad was just talking about. cnn photo journalist phil littleton got a close-up look on a special tour with the national wildlife federation and the images he captured are pretty heartbreaking. this devil keeps sneaking in here and keeps coating these birds. keeps damaging this ecosystem. that leads to damage to families and communities. my name is mora wood. i m on staff with the national wildlife federation. and today we re going out into the bay to continue to get a firsthand look at what s going on out there with the oil spill, its impact to the wetlands and marshes and what s being done about it. we ll go along the top edge of the bay where there s a lot of oil in here. we ll run down to the island where the pelican workry is. we need to stop the gusher at
what are chances we ll actually learn something about the president s supreme court nominee? russian spies among us sounds like a hollywood thriller. fbi arrested ten people today accusing them of being deep cover secret agents. so what secrets, if any, did that pass along to moscow? lots of news to get to tonight. we begin with the number one story tonight. the fears of everyone living and working in mississippi have been realized over these last two months it appeared that much of the state may very well dodge the worst of the oil spill, which seemed to be heading toward the florida panhandle but look at the change. this is just the last week. the winds and current now pushing the oil into the mississippi sound and for the first time since the spill began, the oil is now hitting the mississippi mainland. ed lavandera has been covering the spill for weeks and is in new orleans for us tonight with the latest on that. hi, ed. reporter: hi, campbell. significant as you talk
that s a good sign to see them alive. we didn t really see anything but cloudy water. not a lot of life going on down there, sanjay. i m glad you said seeing sharks a good sign. most people may not agree with you on that. rich, this is amazing. you and i were talking about this. you were able to get a live shot from underwater. we had the x-1 housing and a video cable up to the surface going to our professor, phil littleton with our marine tracking beacon. it s kind of a technical sort of undertaking for this all to happen. everything had to happen just right. we had amber and felipe on communication boxes back up to the surface. and i only had the camera basically. so we were down there. we were in our suits, which had
not a lot of life going on down there, sanjay. i m glad you said seeing sharks a good sign. most people may not agree with you on that. rich, this is amazing. you and i were talking about this. you were able to get a live shot from underwater. we had the x-1 housing and a video cable up to the surface going to our professor, phil littleton with our marine tracking beacon. it s kind of a technical sort of undertaking for this all to happen. everything had to happen just right. we had amber and felipe on communication boxes back up to the surface. and i only had the camera basically. so we were down there. we were in our suits, which had a lot more buoyancy, and it all came together fantastically and