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11% of the surface. we clearly have a vested interest in how all of this works out there. sky news reporter greg milam has more from right near the volcano itself. >> of course what everyone all over northern europe wants to know is how long the problems and eruption on the hill behind me will continue and how much longer that cloud of smoke and ash and ice is going to continue pouring away from iceland into those areas around europe. they simply dont know here. they are monitoring the intensity...

Earthquakes. lets explain. i know a lot of times when we think about volcanoes we think about that hot, red lava. this one is different. >> thats correct. many explode eruptively. clouds go up into the atmosphere and can affect the climate and air traffic control. >> have you ever seen air traffic impacted to this extent? have you seen an ash cloud of this size before? >> yes. well, this is actually not a particularly large explosion. there have been larger ones in the aleutians. >> al roker act...

I want to thank you for your time tonight. i want to thank you for joining this issue and as you and i both know, all too frequently we have to hear political voices from outside of west virginia discussing this. >> i want to just say nick rahall from wst virginia stood shoulder to shoulder with me on every one of these issues. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you. coming up, michelle obamas first solo trip abroad as americas first lady. she shares her thoughts but not all of them w...

>> you mean volcano? no, not necessarily. >> im sorry. volcano. im california-based here, so im obsessed with them. go ahead. >> there may be some common plumbing between katla and this volcano thats erupting now. but usually they operate fairly independent of each other. in general, volcanos in general. >> again, is there anything that you have that can tell us predictively what might happen in the united states in terms of the volcanos we currently have monitorie monitored? >> oh, yes. well, w...

Good morning, welcome on this friday, april 16th. im alina cho. >> im john roberts, thanks for being with us. here are the big stories well be telling you about. one of busiest travel nightmares this morning. volcanic ash from a spectacular eruption in iceland. the eyjafjallajokull volcano. its too dangerous to fly to and from europe. though ironically you can fly into iceland from the u.s. and gary tuckman is there this morning. tens of thousands of travelers stranded in europe, maybe for days ...

Im bitten by one. what are you suppose to do if youre bitten by one? send us an e-mail. bill: i hate the strong word, i said it, i apologize, however, i strongly dislike the world of snakes! its the largest grounding of airline flights since 9/11, were hearing about routes have been grounded because of this, a volcanic eruption in iceland. want to show you satellite images. theres one of them there. go to the next one. this is march 31st, so that goes back even two weeks. folks, this volcano h...

Long-term regional or even global effects? whats the most important thing to know about an eruption to know whether it could be that severe? >> those eruptions were quite unusual, they were long-lived, went on for more than a year and erupted voluminous quantities of ash. this is much, much smaller, than those eruptions. several times smaller than the size of those eruptions. the most important parameter is really the duration of the eruption and how much lava and ash are emitted. >> is there an...

How deep a freeze? >> i would say at its worst, this eruption or an eruption like this could produce a severe winter for the next two or three years. and possibly crop failures, thats whats happened in the past. but its a little difficult to get, say -- to have a volcano up here in the far north affect southern hemisphere because of the global circulation. so its not likely to extend much beyond those latitudes. >> now, you watch 169 active volcanos in the united states. do you see any of them h...

>> you mean volcano? no, not necessarily. >> im sorry. volcano. im california-based here, so im obsessed with them. go ahead. >> there may be some common plumbing between katla and this volcano thats erupting now. but usually they operate fairly independent of each other. volcanos in general. >> again, is there anything you have that you can tell us predictively what might happen in the united states in terms of volcanos we currently have monitoring? >> oh, yes. well, were monitoring a lot of th...

Has washington buzzing, mrs. obama sidestepped the question of whether he husband should appoint another woman to the supreme court. you have to have an opinion. youre a harvard-educated lawyer. do you think there should be more gender balance, gender equity on the court? >> diversity in this country is a good thing, whether its gender, or race, or socioeconomic background or religion, you know, thats the world i come from. >> reporter: looking back on the year that was, mrs. obama said a heated...