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Sulfuric acid and pulverized rock and glass. a lot of things you dont want to fly through. what the killer is on the airplane engine, engines need clean air to go through to get the turbines going. the ash has a low melting point, so it gets in the engine and melts inside the engine and that shuts it down. >> shepard: is there anything that can be done? if it continues and continues, you leave the airport closed long and economies will evaporate. >> no theres nothing you can do. i think theyre t...

And the drifting cloud has led countries across northern europe to do the same thing. the impact has now spread from britain to france, germany, denmark, and beyond. dozens of airports are closed and thousands of flights are disrupted. our meteorologist, chad myers, is over at the cnn weather center in atlanta. tell us about this phenomenon, because its extraordinary what is going on, chad. >> it truly is. and its also extraordinary the way the jet stream is right now and how that is affecting...

Ball. they blew it. and everybody knows they blew it, all right. so youve got to get rid of them. all they are is a noose on the neck of this town. >> hold on. hold on. youre done. >> six teenagers have been formally charged for their role in princes death. well, happening now in the uk and parts of europe, a travel nightmare, flight delays caused by spreading ash cloud from a volcano that erupted in a glacier in iceland. what youre seeing there is a torrence of water flowing down, obviously f...

Its an ash cloud. so thats why they have to be so just vigilant, do not fly through this anywhere near this. this is going to be over europe for many days. hey, you know what, it will probably even make its way into american airspace because its got to go around if a lot of it is going to fall out. the biggest parms are going to fall out. if this keeps going, we could have absolute lack of hurricane season because we could cool down the earth with this if it keeps going. not just from this one e...

A month. heathrow is closed. this is affecting dozens of flights to the u.s. and around the world. our tom aspell following the developments from our london bureau. tom, are they waiting to mother nature to allow these flights to resume? >> well, tamron, british aviation authorities are saying no flights for at least ten hours, maybe even 15. and volcanologists say the eruptions could continue for days or weeks. the particles in the ash cloud which is reaching up some three miles into the sky an...

Engine to a halt. one more picture. even more -- even though the pumice-like nature of this. the problem is when this gets into the internal combustion part of the jet, the melting part of that ash is lower than the temperature of the engine. literally the ash melts back into lava, it could shoot out the end of the jet. by the time it gets shot out of the the end of the jet, it cools down below the melting point of lava and so it just coagulates and just collects on the back of the jet and liter...

They cant go north, south, they cant even leave. you said planes are not flying and they are not. this is the busy time of day. planes from the east coast fly to europe at about this hour, because they can land tomorrow morning in europe time, and so everybody gets on those planes. they sleep through the night and they get there and theyre wide awake when they get there, but there are no planes flying, a couple, but they are going to destinations where its farther south or at least southeast whe...

It starts at 7 a.m. this morning british time, shows where the ash cloud is expected to move over the next 24 hours. the cloud is expanding over europe right now. amy kellogg is live at heathrow airport in london and, amy, youre one of the lucky ones, you have a way out of there, huh? >> reporter: yeah, jon, i live here, so im all set. look at this sunshine. were not seeing any evidence of this cloud,s it is way up above us. you worry about a lot of things when you plan a plane trip, but volcani...