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Hacking into her email accounts. the volcano is not production as much ash as before, but its still erupting. iced has had to -- iceland has had to close its own airport because of the ash clouds. iraqi officials say insurgents seem to be targeting shiites. we are just getting word in that much of mississippi, southeast tennessee and central arkansas under a tornado watch until 8:00 tonight. that includes the cities of memphis and jackson until 8:00 central time. janice dean joins us to explain ...

Candy? >> our tom foreman in greensburg, kansas, travel on, tom, thanks. youre in "the situation room." happening now -- airliners are sent out on flights to europe in the hope theyll be able to reach their destination. still, there are ominous signs the ash clouds are not going away anytime soon. one of wall streets biggest names turned into the biggest bankruptcy in u.s. history. federal officials cite that as a textbook case for financial reform, but are shady accountings here to stay? ...

You access a personal account like yahoo! or something, it may well be notwithstanding a clear policy when you access a private e-mail account like that, employers are not permitted to to happen and spy on -- snoop and spy on that because there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in a personal e-mail account as opposed to the one associate with the your work. jane: sounds like bottom line, scott, youre advising me to still be careful what i write and say on work-issued equipment. >> absolutel...

Soccer game. one of the players saw it happened and rushed to give the man cpr and paramedics said that saved his life. adoptions to the u.s. could remain suspended from russia for up to two months after an american family sent an 8-year-old boy back to moscow. before talks can begin, a u.s. negotiator has to wait until flights can back on track from the volcano delays. the flight cancellations are also wilting the flower export business. flights between israel and the u.s. must pass through...

The rest is completely shut down. >> tom, as i understand it, when the flights went, the pilots did everything on visual, right? they didnt rely on radar. they literally were looking around to have to deviate around ash clouds if they saw that? >> reporter: thats right, alex. the german planes flew at low altitude between frankfurt and munich observing what they call vor, visual flight rules. 20,000 and 30,000 feet. the dutch went higher but were deliberately trying to ingest as much of the ash ...

>> reporter: at this point in the ash cloud, engines would start to fail as the particles got sucked into them. would the passengers be aware of that? >> passengers would now be hearing this. they would see the glow of the flames coming out of the back of the engines and this would be a crucial point in the concern for the passengers now. >> reporter: why not, some are asking, keep air space open during the day when perhaps the cloud could be seen and may be avoided? it is not that simple. >> wh...

Is that how it happened? >> thats right. when they took the engines apart and inspected them thats what happened. they -- the glass on the blades obstructed the air flow. >> could you see the cloud? >> no we were flying at night so there was no moon, no visual reference. you could probably see it in daylight but it was night. probably a lot of people are now aware, aircraft weather radar systems we have onboard are not designed to pick up the ash clouds. >> shepard: they pick up water. >> water ...

Of feet high so thats not where people live, but now as the ash is falling down, you will see it. if you see it on the hood of a car and then you know that its in the air, but you know, this is what candy was talking about, how the skies turn red. its the refraction, its the reflection off of these things up in the upper atmosphere and you know what? the frustration with the flyers is there because the airlines dont know when the ash is really going to be out of the way. im just saying, you know...

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....

Detecting earthquakes, tracking the depths of earthquakes, measuring the volcano changing shape and moving as mag ma is moving underground. and its important to use satellite technology to look down on these ash clouds from space to see which way theyre traveling. you really need a variety of monitoring techniques, in addition to aerial observations from aircraft at a safe distance. tina neal, you have a really cool job and it was cool of you to join us at a busy time. thank you so much. >> your...