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How important this is and how aggressive an agency can be. >> theres no one to advocate for this budget, no one to lead it and no one to go to capitol hill. >> and we have a time with the surge in activity, cross border violence from mexico. secretary clinton went down to mexico last month and said were doing all we can to stop the flow of illegal weapons. whos supposed to do that? thats atf. they dont even have a nominated director to do it. >> thank you very much. michael isakoff. of course, r...

Critical now for so many years to medevacing and lifting the wounded out of the war zone. they fly from germany from the war zone and back to the united states. look at the green line. what they are having to do now is fly from spain, south of the ash cloud, over to the war zone and then air lift them all the way back to the united states. in fact, later today, another flight of the wounded expected to arrive directly at andrews air force base. this is impacting a whole lot of people, even gener...

Grenade into the facility killing one afghan soldier, seriously wounding another. no u.s. or coalition casualties in that attack in kabul, monica. >> thanks for the update. a breaking story were following. minutes ago we learned 50 planes with passengers will be able to fly back to germany. these are lufthansa flights. this coming from air authority in europe. the airline is a german low-cost airline. the giant ash cloud hanging over europe still causing huge problems. while its not expected to ...

The a.m. fix blog is up and running. people are weighing in about whats going on. we have one guy who is stranded -- >> daniel here is stranded in new york with soon to be wife, i must comment on the fact the ash cloud was deadly to attempt to fly through days ago and saying if theres a 30% of flights resuming today, i dont want to take a 30% risk of being safe up in the skies. not exactly what the experts are saying, but it is interesting to see that even now folks are feeling like theyve got t...

Enough plastic water bottles to stretch around the earth over 190 times. each brita filter can take up to 300 of those bottles out of the equation. >> shepard: top stories coming up. but, first, the results of our online poll. its a question the supreme court is considering now. should the personal messages you send on computers and phones, et cetera supplied by the office, be private? the vast majority of you, 84% say nope, no way. updating some of fox top stories tonight, more planes expected ...

Bit of good news. is that we did have some dissipation, today, don, and that allowed those test flights to take place today and all those pilots from several major different airlines reported no problems. the planes were inspected afterwards and they were all in good shape. so thats some good news. 80% of the european air space today was closed. if you had any european flights, for the most part, they were down here. spain, over toward italy and then well over into turkey. additional flights hav...

Surface ash cloud is from surface to 20,000 feet. so you cant take off through this ash. even if the air is clean at 40,000 feet, you can start north, you can start south, you can start east or west, but the problem is, you cant just fly through this at this point. so opening air space is not really all that perfect when it comes to people being stranded. you can still be stranded, because you cant get to that air space thats open because you have to fly through that cloud. and so its going to g...

Power. dont write us off. >> ill be sure not to make you mad. >> youre a millennial. >> in dog years maybe. up next, a live report from the ash cloud over europe making its way toward north america. plus "rolling stone" magazine. they are doing something they have never did not before. tell you about the big changes in store for this iconic magazine. courtney hazlet has it in the skoop.

Tomorrow and theyll start in the north, scotland, midday, and then go down to the english midland by the afternoon and then, the london airports by, oh, late tomorrow afternoon. this coming just an hour after the head of british airways said all the closures of the air space is unnecessary and he was on a flight along with the ba pilot, they flew to the ash -- through the ash yesterday afternoon and said we had no problems. martha: fine, yes. bill: thats the news from sky news coming out of the ...

Heavily. that area was like a severe dust storm. the big question for authorities, how much is a danger over northern europe given the economic problems its having. of course you dont want to take a chance with an airplane, it is frustrating. thats going to be the discussion thats happening over the next few days. >> nbcs bob bazell, thank you, bob. going on five days since the ash cloud blanketed europe and the volcano is stillvillently erupting. joining me now bill nigh the science guy. how lo...