nbc joins us from port sulphur. reporter: the weather is cooperating after a couple rough days other the weekend. this calm, this low in the weather is allowing officials out there responsible for the cleanup and containment of the oil spill to go out and continue booming. also more importantly to continue the skimming. they re trying to kor ral and contain this oil spill, this oil slick, into areas where they re hopefully going to try to let off and ignite some of the controlled burns that we saw earlier last week. meanwhile bp is moving ahead with some of the solutions they ve been talking about for a while. one of those includes a 65-ton coffer dam. it ll basically be going down and capping the major oil leak down at the sea floor of the gulf. it s going to pipe up there s going to be a pipe connected to that coffer dam that s going to be piped up to a boat. that s going to be at least six days away is what they re saying here. they re also going to try to drill some relief dams