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About history. all right. gary tuchman there. jacqui jeras is here in the weather center. so the ash is still up there but he made it very clear, gary did, that the chances of that other volcano erupting or that people would be able to predict it, gave me a big old zero here. >> yeah. there really is no way to tell. if history tells you anything, then, yeah, maybe this could happen. the volcanos above sea bevel, above ground, are about 12 miles apart. underneath, apparently, they may be connec...

And shapes, towering thousands of feet in the air. i asked the pilots his first impression. >> this looks like the gates to hell. >> reporter: and this is what happens after the ash lands. olfer eggerson is a farmer who is now dealing with a 2,500 acre farm consumed by ash that has turned into muck and mud. he tells us, this has been in my family for three generations. me, my father, my grandfather. thats why it hurts so much. his family has owned the farm near the volcano for 104 years, but the...

Was doing on monday, but the visibility made it difficult to find his farm, because for the second time in three days, it was getting pummeled by ash from the eruption up above. >> gary, i know you met with one of icelands top volcanic experts today. what does he think about the future of this volcano? >> reporter: well, anderson, right now, here, its wednesday morning, 2:30 a.m., but magnum goodmanson, who is a scientist at the university of iceland tells us that on tuesday, monday, and sunday,...

>> gary, i know you met with one of icelands top volcanic experts today. what does he think about the future of this volcano? >> reporter: well, anderson, right now, here, its wednesday morning, 2:30 a.m., but magnum goodmanson, who is a scientist at the university of iceland tells us that on tuesday, monday, and sunday, the eruptions were much weaker than saturday, friday, and thursday. and he says, therefore, theres a very good indication that the worst is over, but he doesnt want to make any ...

Re-open a week after a paralyzing shutdown caused by a volcanic eruption in iceland. 75% of scheduled flights are now expected to be in the air today and a day of mourning in china. >> chinese stood with their heads bowed in honor of those killed in an earthquake one week ago today. beijing now puts the death toll on the tibet an plateau at 2,064. and that benjamin franklin in your wallet is getting a new high-tech look. the treasury department has re-designed the $100 bill. it includes a specia...

Whats called a shadow market. the u.s., its usually done through one of the big five banks. the problem with keeping it private is a company like aig was taking tons of bets on whether other people would be able to pay their mortgages. when the housing market crashed and aig was supposed to pay up it didnt have enough money to comp the bets. hello government bailout. because it was private no one had any idea that aig was gambling so much. well, now, congress wants most of these derivatives trad...

Where they just now want to throw something at their television, lets remindm that we are giving the banks money for free to bail them out from their gambling game that i was discussing earlier. they are taking the free money and then lending it back to you and i on our credit cards at 20% or 30%. >> and one of the other issues were going to fight for is transparency in the fed so theyll begin to understand whats happening. one of my subpositions, i may be wrong this, this, i think we give the f...

Public health priority. institute of medicine reports americans consume twice as much salt as they should which increases risk of high blood pressure strokes and other health insurance. the institute is asking the fda to put sodium limits on processed s. tributes are pouring in from around the nation tonight for the late civil rights leader dorothy height. president obama calls her the godmother of the civil rights movement. bill and hillary clinton are saying the nation is poorer for her loss. ...

Volcanos, earthquakes bizarre heat waves, windstorms, killer ash clouds. with the news of natural phenomena starting to read like a bad movie, we need to move to our post-rational science correspondent for some help. hi, kent jones. >> hi, rachel. theres been astonishing scientific breakthroughs this week, thanks in part to noted geologist rush limbaugh. >> oh, no. >> yes, yes. scientists may think they know what caused the eruption, but clearly theyre not familiar with the new limbaugh theory. ...

Crisis. our sister network sky news on the scene. >> this really is an extraordinary sight. our pilot says we are the closest to get to the rim. because of the weather conditions today but also because the strength of the eruption have lessened to some extent. but its still amazing when you see the shock wave travel through the plume and then you see this monthly ten rock hurling through the air. >> shepard: scientists warn this eruption could actually trigger another one in a nearby volcano. th...