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An official with the european union says nearly half of the europes air space could be safe for flying tomorrow if the ash cloud keeps moving like it is moving right now. klm, royal dutch airlines, say the ash didnt cause any problems for them. this could spell relief for stranded vacationers, business people, students and diplomats getting to their destinations. as cnns zain verjee explains from nairobi, kenya, the ash plume has grounded a lot of commerce globally. >> reporter: lucy may be out ...

Plume of ash up there spewing from that disruptive volcano in iceland. european aviation officials now hoping to get half of the scheduled flights off the ground and thats something, at least. our paula newton is at londons heathrow which is usually europes busiest airport. hello to you again. a few flights possibly taking off, paula? >> reporter: absolutely, in europe, we had to take that good news, t.j. and thats some major airports and both france and germany have opened up in the netherlands...

Couldnt get home in time to attend their own wedding back in slow vok i -- slovakia. >> we will never forget taiwan and the wonderful people we met here. >> this is really amazing day. thank you for everything. >> shepard: the silver linings on the ash cloud. at least this saves them the trouble of figuring out where to spend their honeymoon. our mike emanuel streaming live from londons heathrow -- mike tobin, i should say. >> shepard, for the last two hours we have been watching the planes line...

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Family for three generations, me, my father, my grandfather. thats why it hurts so much. the volcano had been quiet for about 190 years. why would this happen to such a beautiful place? what are we being punished for? our visit with olafer was on sunday. we thought we would see how he was doing on monday. the visibility made it difficult to find his arm, because for the second time in three days, it was getting pummeled by ash, from the eruption up above. gary tuchman cnn, iceland. now, to the...

Area. the persistent problem continued through the day and this video was shot at sunrise and you can see the enormous amount thats shooting into the sky with this. the not all of the ash cloud looks like this. experts say because you cant always see where the danger is, it is impossible to avoid. according to euro control, more than 63,000 flights have been canceled since april 15th, only 4,000 flights took off and landed in europe today, that is compared to the usual 24,000 on a typical sunday...

All right, we now know because of those potential dangers of the volcanic ash, know president barack obama scrapped plans to travel to poland for the funeral of the polish president. the white house announcement came just about an hour ago, about six hours in all before mr. obama was due to leave. the ash cloud makes flying hazardous and has all but shut down flights in most of europe since thursday. here is a look at the volcano from space. take a look. the ash still growing. right now it is af...

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