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Covid policy, but it has clearly made some of these changes and just days after the country saw unprecedented protests, the biggest public display of discontent that the country has seen, really, in a generation over these covid restrictions. victor and alisyn. >> all right, ivan watson, thank you for that. well, meanwhile cnn gets an aerial view of the spectacular volcanic eruption on display in hawaii where the lava flow is getting closer to a major highway. so well take you there. research ...

Of hilo could have been in the bu bulls-eye. native hawaiians are paying their respects. the eruption has at times sent lava hundreds of feet up into the air. nobody knows when it will stop at this point and what damage, if any, it could cause. five days into the eruption of the worlds largest active volcano, the lava, much less of a threat and more of a treat. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, hawaii. still to come on the cbs weekend news, a terrifying animal attack caught on door cam video. that...

Volcano is still spewing lava. this video captured last night. so far no homes are threatened but lava could eventually reach a major highway on the big island, thats speeding spectators to the site. cbs jonathan vigliotti is there. >> reporter: as lava from mauna loa continues to yield spectacular images, the spewing out has slowed considerably. >> at this point were only dealing with one active fissure, which is fissure 3. >> reporter: the only current threat is the main highway that crosses h...

Normally off-season. theyre experiencing it from a distance. they may see it from their hotel. many tens of kilometers away on the coast. those who are venturing out at night are urged to take caution to bring protection clear. a surgical mere core individual mask wont protect you from the gases, but something damp over the mouth will. >> appreciate the beauty, but stay far enough away. the volcano science community has been preparing a response to this. you knew it was going to be happening thi...

Molten lava flowing from the Mauna Loa volcano is threatening to cross the main highway on Hawaii's biggest island, which would add hours to commutes.

The main thing you can do is to have very good monitoring systems, and hazard maps to assess what the risks are and then to react as quickly as possible when things start to happen. thats exactly what the indonesian authorities are doing now. they have enacted the evacuation of the area, which will be a well—planned and well communicated system to make sure the risks are minimised. even with those systems, and there was a good example in 2010, where thousands of lives were saved by an efficien...

Le Semeru entre en éruption, alerte maximale en Indonésie

Public approaches this lava fountain or any of the lava flows. they may not be aware of the multitude of hazards. you have gas inhalation, volcanic glass, superheat, obviously, and its uneven terrain. everything is changing and you dont know if a crack could open up beneath our feet if youre walking on freshly cooled lava. i advise everybody to stay where hawaii county has designated as viewing areas. >> and yesterday when we spoke you told me this was the first volcano youve studied. what are y...

Following the eruption despite a previous alert. ealier, volcanologist professor mike burton told me more about the volcano and the immediate risks facing the communities surrounding it. indonesia is full of active volcanoes, and simmer route is the ——and semeru is the tallest of a range of volcanoes. it has been very active for the last hundred years at least. we have seen predominantly pyroclastic flows, an avalanche of hot rock which entrains cooler air and can travel up to 100 kilometres...

How the ground is deforming, earthquakes and so forth, but in addition to what the materials are being erupt ready composed of, not just their bulk composition but the size and shapes of things they contain such as crystals and gas bubbles known as vest tackles, we look at how space and time during this eruption and correlate them with the way the eruption is behaving to help understand how varying conditions in the subsurface in the magna chamber feeding this eruption in the days before the eru...