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Last week, so, in that sense, i mean, they felt they had to go through with the funeral and, get on with it, despite the fact that the ash cloud, has affected the plans of so many, 80 world leaders that wanted to come and just a little over half of them have been able to do so, sarkozy of france had to cancel and merkel of germany cancelled and president obama as you said cancelled at the last minute. they me, they tried up until the last moment to try and make the flight and the president issue...

Extraordinary amount of time and effort considering and preparing for the full range of con teupbgs -- con teupbgs for a nuclear iran. and speaking on afghanistan, he says leaving is a request, not an honor. the funeral for the polish president and his wife is occurring this morning. the ash cloud has kept many world leaders away but dana is there with more. hi, dana. >> poland said goodbye to one of its great patriots today but unfortunately, many of the world leaders who wanted to go to pola...

Lech kaczynski and his wife maria. up to 80 world leaders were to attend the funeral in the church in krakow but the ash cloud caused more than half of them to cancel. president obama saying he was a close friend and ally of the united states as well as the people who died alongside him. several polish leaders spoke of warming relations between russia and poland and that perhaps this tragedy has brought the two nations together despite their dark history. new home video of the crash site has sur...

Them for after the lockdown ends. now the germans flew at low altitude under that cloud, which is between 20,000 and 40,000 feet. they were following about 12,000 feet on their route, observing visual flight rules all the way. now, that would not be impractical for the rest of europe to use that as a method of transporteding people around. its just too dangerous to fly at low altitudes for long periods of time. and it wouldnt be fuel efficient. >> tom, are you getting any sense of a change of te...

Klm, the dutch-based carrier and they have been in the lead to try to break the log jam here and try to see how dangerous that volcanoic ash cloud really is over europe. they have run ten test flights between amsterdam and duesseldorf and ten test flights that have shown no irregularities and they are pressing the safety agencies to let them fly again. and in addition to that, air france, lufthansa and british airways and austrian airlines have been doing the same thing. there will be more meeti...

Kaczynski. he and his wife, maria, were among 96 high-ranking civilian and military leaders, kill in a plane crash, last weekend, in russia. dana lewis has the story in moscow. >> reporter: gregg, poland said good-bye to one of its great patriots, the president and his wife were laid to rest today but a lot of the worlds leaders who hoped to attend the funeral were prevented from doing so because of the ash cloud over europe and the nation of poland seemed in shock today. burying the dead and to...

Volcanic clouds without suffering any damage. they hope to resume passenger services as soon as possible. meanwhile, much of europes airspace remains shut down this hour because of the ash cloud and thousands more flights have been canceled today. and then take a look at this. we are getting some pretty incredible aerial pictures of the icelandic volcano. it looks more like a screaming face, right? that is what were told it is. so for more on the science behind all of this and how long it might ...

Investigation. nature hides what it has in store for us. but people are looking at it very carefully, and im sure theyre looking at the seismic waves and analyzing the gases that are coming out and trying to estimate how deep the magma chamber is and how fast its rising up to the surface. we cant predict how long its going to last. >> is there anything to be done to alter the pattern of an ash cloud much like the concept of cloud seeding for precipitation? is there anything like that out there s...

Managed to is cape damage from the ash, but thanks to the prevailing winds, even the capital remains open, believe it or not. areas closer to the eruption are certainly affected. hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes because the volcano is melting a glacier that is causing flooding. a layer of ash that blankets the surrounding countryside, iceland in the middle of the atlantic ocean and is no stranger to seismic activity. its the deadliest one came in the year 1783. that natura...

Stopped opponents plans. polish leader was killed in a plane crash last week. they are saying the ash cloud is spreading across europe poses to too great a threat even for air force one. joining a list of world leaders who will not attend tomorrows funeral for lech kaczynski because of the fallout from the volcano. this is as warnings mount there is no forecast when the volcano stop spewing ash into the sky. its invisible and destructive grit that can get into jet engines and cause them to stall...