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Of whether her husband should appoint another woman to the supreme court 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, ore 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 health care debate that at times turned ugly didnt get to her. did that make you angry?...

How realistic it is for him to see us land on mars sometime in the next 25 years. the a.m. fix blog is up and running. we would like to hear from you. go to cnn.com/amfix. we will read some of your comments throughout the morning. but, first, what is being called the biggest travel disruption since 9/11. a monstrous cloud of volcanic ash coming from the middle of the atlantic under a glacier in iceland. look at those pictures. that eruption is sending ice chunks as big as homes into the ocean ...

>> here you go. >> my next guest aint fond iceland. he hates it and hes never been there. thousands of flights cancelled due to ash from the volcanic eruption and the situation is getting worse for americans europe. matt mccall joins me from swede. are you in the airport? >> i was able to get another hotel room which was difficult in stockholm. i spent most of the day in the train station where i took a number this morning. a number just to speak with a gate agent to get on a train because all f...

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 having a capacity like what were seeing today in ...

>> what is the likely impact on global climate? >> i would say its probably fairly slight with this volcano. the worst eruption, one of the worst eruptions in history occurred in 1783 from locke which is just to the north. 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 eruptions from a nearby volcano wi...

St. helens was a tenth of that size. i dont anticipate this eruption will be much greater than those. they have this volcano well wired. monitoring it with a variety of geophysical 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...

The peak. makes sense we ran through something, the earth ran through it. this meteor came down and through. it showed up on the doppler radar in parts of southwestern, wisconsin. its a meteorite iron. it comes through and reflects the radar. people thought it was, in fact, rain on the radar. it happened too quickly. there you can see the flashing there. it exploded in the air. this is very popular. this is a normal thing for it to do. when it explodes in the air it makes showers and you get a b...

No conflicts. >> ah, i see, allan. yeah, so the investors -- wow, okay. gotc gotcha. allan chernoff in new york for us. what a story. did you want to add something, allan? >> by the way, tony, those investors lost a billion bucks. the hedge fund betting against the housing market, made a billion. >> oh, nan. what a story. allan, appreciate it. billion dollars, thats real money. now to the volcanic eruption being felt around the world. 17,000 flights grounded. drifting ash from a volcano in ooi...

To andrews air force base, just outside washington. the military planes that can make it while refueling in air. will just go nonstop. but the dead and wounded who are transported on commercial aircraft will have to land in rhoda, spain, where the u.s. military has medical teams prepositioned. in all, so far, everybody says its going smoothly. dont expect any hitches. but after some time, the u.s. military will want to get those four bases back up and running in europe. >> just remarkable how la...

Of the weekend before things get back to normal. right now, across northern europe, more than 5,000 of the 28,000 flights have been canceled. were talking from the u.k. to germany, germany to stockholm, sweden. even finland. a lot of problems and here in the united states, thousands of passengers are stuck having to wait it out. we talked with some exchange students yesterday who had to spend another day in new york. well, im sure theyre not happy about that. other folks trying to get back into ...