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Earthquakes. lets explain. i know a lot of times when we think about volcanoes we think about that hot, red lava. this one is different. >> thats correct. many explode eruptively. clouds go up into the atmosphere and can affect the climate and air traffic control. >> have you ever seen air traffic impacted to this extent? have you seen an ash cloud of this size before? >> yes. well, this is actually not a particularly large explosion. there have been larger ones in the aleutians. >> al roker act...

Volcano settles down, doesnt look like it wants to do that. a couple of our pictures, infrared satellite imagery showing you where it is erupting, between red and black, that is the ash plume driving down towards the south and east. another picture i want to show you, actually tracking the ash cloud coming out of iceland. you can see how it drives down to the south towards northern u.k. then kind of disburses along a southern parts of england and into western parts of europe. that seems to want ...

President there today. he was saying when we have debates theyre important. when they go over the line and get into the politics of personal destruction, when we go into labeling people who are moderate radicals and extremists and theres rhetoric that people want to take over and take over peoples lives, you know that gets -- that crosses the line. everyone respects the right to protest your government. i strongly respect that right. but the idea of attacking people personally, saying they want ...

Chaos in europe and its not letting up. weve got the latest on the effects of that ash cloud coming out of a volcano in iceland.

>> ash contains particles of rock, glass and sand. when an airplane hits ann arbor clo -- the ash cloud visibility is reduced. a greater danger the ash can be sucked into the engines, melt and shut them down completely. >> well have a lot more on the story coming up later in the hour. here at home tonight, our number one story is president obama at the kennedy space center. he had good news and bad news for nasa. the good news? another $6 billion for the agency over the next five years. the bad ...

Satellite images. this is from space. this is what this looks like on a satellite image, the black cloud moving through here. more behind through iceland. norway here, british islands here. what is this doing to air travel? a look here as you watch yellow flights here, southern europe. planes, all flights in action. up here, see all 0 the blue dots, youve got to come in close to see. those are airports across europe that have been shut down, flights grounded because of the travel ash. look, this...

You can see, just make out over here, this is the ash cloud. the rest of it is just normal cloud, vapor, just water. this is not water. this is actually particles of lava that have solidified. this is whats wreaking havoc. its causing major travel disruptions to airlines worldwide, far more than we saw on september 11th. richard quest was saying he had heard that it was the worst since world war ii. the reason for the flight risk, if the ash spewing from this volcano and that cloud get sucked up...

All the flight crew had been able to see through the whole thing was a bizarre luminous glowing around the plane. that incident that happened in 1982 is why we have rules about not flying through clouds of ash from volcanos. a volcano in indonesia had erupted. that british airways flight went right through the ash cloud. it was at night. they couldnt see it. ash clouds are dry so they dont turn up on weather radar. the particulate matter from that volcanic cloud just locked up that jets engines....

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Have we ever seen anything like this before? this seems like a bizarre act of nature? >> to have it stream into the populated areas, thats bizarre. last year we had mt. redoubt which caused similar problems out of anchorage. but anchorage isnt heathrow. so certainly extraordinary and we need this volcano to sim mer down and stop erupting or two, we need the winds to change direction. were starting to see number two a little bit. you can see the southern -- upper left part of the screen, theres i...