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For tune. the fuel you would use would be ridiculously high. can you go over the cloud? far too risky. go around the cloud, not likely. its too big. well, its just one of those things. i recognize that anybody who is stranded by this is thinking, surely in this day and age we can come up with something better than wait, wait, and wait. but ali, this comes under the heading, you know, on stuff happens. >> im one of these guys like you are, richard, sometimes when flights are delayed or canceled b...

Later today. we will see. this is the problem. we showed it to you yesterday. >> highly magnified particle of volcanic ash. >> this is your brain on drugs. this is what a particle of ash looks like in the air. it melts. even if you fly through a little bit, that ice and that glass thats on the back of the plane and in the jet is going to stay there a very long time so you cant fly through any of it, ever. >> thats what were worried about because as it dissipates, when you see it right from the v...

Just put your finger perfectly on the point. its this cloud. the plume of cloud that youre seeing, the big cloud, if you like, dark, deep and nasty, that is obvious. you can say, well, you just fwli around that, fly over it, fly under it, whatever. but it doesnt dissipate. just looks like normal cloud. or you cant see it at all. but the particles are still in the air. and the reality is that is what is extending over vast tracks of northern and now western europe. and that -- and one person aske...

Whats that country right there? poland. guess what the president is going to try to get there. any planes in the air underneath that? the planes are yellow. they are flying. the little blue markers are airports that are transponding and no airplanes. >> you can judge from this where the cloud is. the cloud is over here. this tl is open airspace in southern europe. >> correct. the only fly in that ointment, ali, is that right through here there are no blue transponders here. >> what does that mea...

Plans might get scrapped because of a volcano in iceland that is spewing a massive cloud of ash washing around the world. its keeping flights on the ground. it was bad yesterday. its a lot worse today. by tomorrow, who knows, well tell you about it. youve been with somebody for years, loved them, cared for them. then they get sick and you cant go to the hospital and be by their bedside. it happens a i cross the crown think. today there is a move under way to make sure it never happens again. g...

You can see, just make out over here, this is the ash cloud. the rest of it is just normal cloud, vapor, just water. this is not water. this is actually particles of lava that have solidified. this is whats wreaking havoc. its causing major travel disruptions to airlines worldwide, far more than we saw on september 11th. richard quest was saying he had heard that it was the worst since world war ii. the reason for the flight risk, if the ash spewing from this volcano and that cloud get sucked up...