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Lot about the impact that the volcanic ash is having around the world for airlines and businesses who depend on cargo planes to get products to consumers. the impact of the ash on your health? if youre caught in that ash zone. chad was telling us it comes down in the rain. a bit of good news. britains health protection agency said the ash particles is likely to be low and shouldnt cause serious harm. the agency also says that effects you do feel are likely to be minor. those in the ash zone may ...

There are a dozen gases that can be irritating to your mucus membrane, respiratory system and your skin. the more respiratory problems you have the more likely you are to be impacted. airline travel, we were talking about flights being canceled. this is the real-time air travel. normally in the air space across europe on a saturday you have 22,000 flights. today there were only 5,000, less than 1/4 of what you normally would have. here you can see across southern parts of europe, from spain towa...

Concerned about health hazards involved. just looking at that you say to yourself, i dont want to breathe that. there are all kinds of particles in the air. we are getting ash fall reports from the uk. there are all kinds of gasses that volcanos also emit, things like carbon dioxide, hydrogen. the water vapor is not harmful but carbon dioxide can concentrate in low-lying areas and that can be lethal. you dont want to be close to it. and fluoride, as well, hydrogen fluoride is like this pale yell...

A series of 50 explosions will destroy texas stadium where around 2,200 holes were drilled into the stadiums support columns and then filled with dynamite. now the city of irvin is charging to watch the final tailgate party and the dwats opened about 2:00 this morning and officials are warning about the dust and the noise from the blast. anybody with respiratory problems is advised to bring a mask. theyre watching all the festivities and it has been an all-night party as a lot of folks have come...

Variations if you will. if the 95% approve, they will get $575 million. less than that, the deal is off. so, the time line, they have 90 days to say yes we will take the money, thank you very much or no. a claims administrator will sort out the legitimate claims from the bogus claims and people trying to make a buck out of it. the legitimate claims will get from a few thousand dollars for up to, look at this number, $1 million. that depends upon severity of the illness. that is tricky to look at...

Many of those bombs continue to corrode leechi inin inin ining . the navy identified thousands of munitions and set about blowing them up. islanders fear more toxic chemicals will be released. the u.s. governments response is to claim sovereign immunity that residents have no right to sue the government. and the government also disputes that the navys activities made islanders ill. citing a 2003 government study that found no link. do you think this island made you sick? >> of course it did. i g...

Act decisively. >> cnn correspondent fred pleitgen is on the ground in syria. also abby phillips, cnn correspondent lisa lav inand retired lieutenant colonel rick fr francona. he is the only western journalist on the ground in the region, fred, walk us through what you know right now. >> reporter: fredricka, those are certainly some troubling images were seeing in damascus, happening only eight miles from where we are right now. it seems as though this alleged attack started late yesterday eveni...

Seeing, the horrific viewdeos, d we will be showing them, they seem to indicate that the people down there have had severe respiratory problems. the opposition on the ground say it was a syrian government helicopter that dropped a canister, and right after that people got those respiratory problems and dozens died in the wake of that. the syrian government is saying they were not any part of this. they say, y they were prosecuting an offensive at that time, but they say that offensive was going ...

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Correspondent frederik pleitgen is there life. get us up to speed on that incident. >> reporter: all of this happened around 8:30 p.m. last night when those syrian anti-government activists say that a hospital dropped some sort of large-scale improvised explosive device they say contained that toxic gas. after that, they say many people came down with the respiratory problems. they say hundreds of people were affected and dozens of people have been killed. as you guys have been pointing out, it ...