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Because this volcano hasnt been studied very much and we dont know if its going to continue to lessen or get worse. at the bottom of the mountain, it is a horrible sight. its like being in a brutal sand storm. you can barely open your eyes. thats the stuff, the ash, that comes out of the volcano thats causing such a problem for airplanes in europe. now, the question is, it certainly is that bad near the mountain and that makes it bad for humans and animals, but is it that bad in the air. thats t...

Whatevers going on inside the volcano has calmed down. >> is there still concern about this neighboring volcano, katla, erupting as well? >> it will always be a concern. its where the north american plate is running into the european plate. and the volcano, its interesting. they dont happen right where the plates collide, they happen where one is being folded. theres a whole string of them there in iceland, so you might think if one goes, the other will. but the other argument is if one goes, th...

Are going and most of the news, unfortunately, is bad. >> yeah, hey, rick, are you at all concerned about a nearby dormant volcano erupting as well? >> yes, katla nearby has famously erupted in concert with this volcano and when it does it sort of often is the more energetic long lived kind of event. so thats kind of scary, too. but so far i dont think theres much evidence of that that ive seen discussed anyway. its always possible. >> sure. hey, rick, real quick, health hazards. what are the to...

Can this cause katla to erupt? scientists respect sure, but theyre keeping a close eye on the situation. seeing this so close up is just incredible. this is gary tuchman, cnn, iceland. >> those are incredible pictures. >> and we bring reynolds in, back with us today, its gorgeous. an amazing gorgeous sight, something you dont see. the fit is causing people, its unreal. >> whats amazing in our lifetimes and something that many of us have never seen. this planet is 4.6 billion years old. this has ...

Car crater. lightning bolts in the smoke that towered hundreds of feet high. >> looking at this volcano this close is up both awe inspiring and frightening its been quiet since the 1820s. this volcano has not erupted since 1823. its been doing so for about two years. hard to imagine the economic catastrophe thats lasted that long now. >> reporter: this part of the mountain range is where the eruption began last month. now its mostly quiet with just pockets of smoke. but here the eruptions are hu...

Thousand years it erupted every 50 to 75 years. it is considered due and it is also considered much stronger than this one. can this cause katla to erupt? scientists arent sure, but theyre keeping a close eye on the situation. either way, just seeing this so close up is just incredible. this is gary tuchman, cnn, in iceland. >> it is incredible, gary. thank you very much. travel chaos across europe disrupted lives in countless ways. were hearing painful reports of people headed for vacations, ...

Appears to be intensifying. were able to get on a helicopter today and fly within a few hundred feet of the eruption of the volcano. it was actually incredible, getting so close to it. you can see glass shards being tossed, boulders being tossed, lightning bolts. it was awe inspiring. at the same time, it was frightening seeing the immense power of this volcano. it was hard to believe that we were just a few hundred feet away from it, yet thousands of miles away and many countries in europe peop...

And i guess this one particular volcano is pretty dangerous because it caused floods the size of the amazon, sent boulders as big as houses tumbling down into valleys and roads, and the last major eruption was 1918. floods followed in as little as an hour. how do you handicap it that were going to see katla explode? >> well, you know, we spend a lot of time trying to understand risk, and there are various places like the santa fe institute in new mexico where were interested in risk. we also hav...

Near long valley in california. erupted about the same amount at roughly the same time. and actually the record belongs to the volcano that occurred around the time of the extinction of the dinosaurs in which something like 500,000 cubic miles of ash were erupted -- megyn: how big is that, 500 cubic miles? >> i cant even tell you, you know, its inconceivable. putting that much ash and rock in the air will cause, you know, substantial cooling equivalent to like a nuclear winter kind of thing, and...

2006 gold medallist in curling. you dont want to miss this. first, ginger zee with a check on the forecast. >> quiet in the northeast, but only for so long. bill will have a lot to go through by next tuesday. a storm headed here in the northeast. you should get bill some of that music like cheney, by the way, when he comes back. the storm will move east. today, a very comfortable day. mix of sun and clouds. slightly breezy, but, yeah, cool all wait dothe way down to atla. youre watching "morning...