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Result erupted less than a cubic kilometer. mount st. helens was a tenth of that size. but theyre monitoring it with a va rye at the of instruments. if it were to intensify or grow much larger or give signs it were going to intensify and grow much larger, they should see some signals of that. >> one last question for you just about your own experience. i know youve flown in planes around active value cane knows to view ash and gas plumes from volcanos when theyre going off. weve got footage from...

Patterns for the next few days. >> we are locked into that same pattern, so weve got that northwest to southeast flow. so if we continue getting eruptions, and we keep that wind flow exactly the same, the exact same areas are going to continue to get hard hit. >> reporter: on british tv tonight, this is the travel warning viewers heard. >> the latest forecast from the office shows that this morning the ash cloud spread to most of the country. by now, few areas are clear, and the cloud is reachin...

Also other icelandic volcanos have had year-plus. >> what is the impact on global climate? >> i would say its fairly slight with this volcano. the worst eruption, one of the worst eruptions in history occurred in 1783 from locke, to the north dakota, and it covered europe in a sulfur cloud and that affected european climate for about a year. but it didnt really affect global climate. >> now, the "l.a. times" today reports two of the three eruptions of this volcano have been followed by larger er...

The volcanos name translates in icelandic to island mountain glacier. you have to go slowly with this one. eyjafjallajokull. the ash that is spewing into the atmosphere by the unpronounce bl volcano is enough to jam an aircraft engine. in our number one story, that ash has caused the largest trance atlantic flight grounding since september 11th, 2001. in a moment, geologist bill burton on the scientific impact of this eruption, but first, dawna friesen reports from heathrow airport in london. da...

Agree. >> later this morning, well talk with a democratic member of congress who votes 70% with democrats and also been endorsed by the tea party. a lot of interesting politics going on in washington. >> definitely so. >> our top stories this friday morning, one of biggest travel nightmares ever this morning. ash from a spectacular eruption of the eyjafjallajokull have canceled hundreds of flights from the united states. immigration investigators are calling operation plain sight. charged with...

>> how often does it happen? >> we go through it every year. they are rarely anything like that. most of the time we see small showers. this was an explosion. >> whats going on in iceland. theres a huge eruption. flights to europe are stopped. how long could it last? >> it could last a long time. this is a significant event for europe and plane travel. you cannot fly a jet plane through ash. i know it looks all compacted and you could fly around it. as it gets more diffuse, away from the volcano...

Flying near the ash, the authorities are dead right in doing what theyre doing. >> reporter: the weather forecast shows no change in wind patterns for the next few days. >> we are locked into that same pattern, so weve got that northwest to southeast flow. so if we continue getting eruptions, and we keep that wind flow exactly the same, the exact same areas are going to continue to get hard hit. >> reporter: on british tv tonight, this is the travel warning viewers heard. >> the latest forecast ...

Pilots were able to get three of the four engines started again. can you imagine? but beyond that, the volcanic ash can stay how long in the air? how long might we be looking at this mess? >> this could go on quite a while. particles a couple of millimeters to microns across. they are light particles, can stay up a long time, float around for a while. theres really no telling. generally speaking volcanoes are not located in places you fly planes regularly. they would tend to go out over the paci...

Cancellations. details emerge from hundreds of documents released in the ben roethlisberger case. among them how accuser told police she tried to get away from the nfl star. police say a 5-year-old florida girl missing more than a year may never be found alive. why they say this case is now a homicide. at the top of the hour, breaking news, flight cancellations are getting worse today because of the ash cloud from the erupting volcano in iceland. hot gases are melting ice. that is triggeri...

Forecast shows no change in wind patterns for the next few days. >> we are locked into that same pattern, so weve got that northwest to southeast flow. so if we continue getting eruptions, and we keep that wind flow exactly the same, the exact same areas are going to continue to get hard hit. >> reporter: on british tv tonight, this is the travel warning viewers heard. >> the latest forecast from the office shows that this morning the ash cloud spread to most of the country. by now, few areas ar...