brooke baldwin has been watching the recovery effort unfold from mississippi. dome is on its way. i believe that's a live picture we're looking at. give us a sense of when it's supposed to get there and explain what it's to do. >> sure. well, at least some good news, campbell. we have confirmed that this dome that you're looking at is officially out at open sea. it left the port earlier today. it's supposed to take in the neighborhood of 12 to 13 hours just to reach the leak location and then once it does that, the process of sealing this thing on top of the well head will take another two days. we're hearing earliest saturday when they start containing the leak. >> that's about what you said containing it. talk to us about the cleanup efforts that are under way. how it's going? >> in terms of cleanup efforts. we have just learned from bp that they're stopping or at least temporarily stopping the use of those dispersants to break up the oil. we need to assess the effectiveness and the impact of that. we're hearing that they're giving the burning another go. they

cnn's brooke baldwin is on the coast watching it all unfold for us. dome? how does it work? >> reporter: wolf, think of this containment dome as a big, massive, metal, concrete funnel. and the best way i can sort of explain it is by demonstrating. imagine you have a funnel just like this, this funnel, this concrete dome, is being taken right now from what i'm hearing it's just now exiting port buchon in louisiana and entering the big waters here on the gulf. it will continue for about 50 miles offshore to the leak location, and then what will happen is they'll take a system of piping, so, like, a straw, for example. they'll put the piping inside of this containment dome and then with a ship up above, they'll be able to siphon or essentially suck up what may be 85% of this oil that's leaking. what's key here is that bp has never performed an operation at this depth of water, 5,000 feet under, but this is a first for them. so, keep in mind they did cap one well this morning, but, of course, that means the volume of the gush has not changed. it is still

holmes with brooke baldwin. this morning covering breaking news from new york city where times square has been shut down for the past 12 hours after what has been described as a car bo