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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 on top of the leaking pipe on the bottom of the gulf of mexico and trying to channel that into that dome, channel the leaking oil into that dome where it will then shoot up into pipes that will go into container ships and get it out of there. they think they can capture up to 5 pierce of the oil coming from that pipe. on the timetable of this they think they can get this ready by wednesday at the
they ve got to do quality control checks and they ve good to to take it on to a ship and low ter down and they believe they can get it down there by the end of this week. that s an ambitious timetable, but they ll at least try to do that. so this is the latest attempt at trying to contain the oil and this slick and try to head off the massive amounts of outflow coming out of the wellhead right now. i m brian todd, cnn, in port fourchon, louisiana. the massive oil slick in the gulf now being felt in california. that accident is causing california governor arnold schwarzenegger to pull support for offshore drilling. he had been backing a plan that would net the state an extra $100 million a year. you turn on the television and see this enormous disaster an you say to yourself why would we want to take that risk in the risk is much greater than the money s worth. if i had a choice between the $100 million and what i see in the gulf of mexico, i d rather just figure out how to make up
a break in the times square bomb case. i want to show you pictures of this individual. we finally have him here at cnn. 30-year-old faisal shahzad. we know he s a naturalized u.s. citizen born in pakistan in custody and expected in federal court some time after 2:00 this afternoon eastern. by the way, we have also learned that president obama will be speaking about this case in about an hour from now. we ll bring that to you live. meantime, shahzad was taken into custody last night right around midnight at jfk airport in new york, he was on a plane headed to dubai. two other people were removed from that plane. they have been cleared. they have been released. they said they have absolutely nothing to do with this case, but a law enforcement official has been telling cnn that shahzad told investigators he was a lone wolf, that he acted alone. he s also believed to be the person who drove the nissan pathfinder full of explosives into a very busy times square saturday evening.