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More than a weeks worth of obstruction. airlines complained. they want to give airlines a break in these extraordinary situations. andrew. >> now, nina, unlike regular dust, volcanic ash is much, much minor. it can affect nozzles and instru anyonation and obstruct joints making things like flaps and tail movement very, very difficult. now, jet propulsion is the key here. its so hot it can melt the ash that goes through the intake and through the blades there. it builds up in the back of the engi...

Yesterday. on a wider view i want to show you, we do have a advisory in place. this is going to go through the evening in uk time. anywhere in red, notice the uk out of this. this is including the service of 20,000 feet. thats, of course, where planes take off. were talking 35,000 and 55,000 feet. say if they were going on a transatlantic flight. this is the area of greenland. most of the flights go to the south of greenland. thats good news because theyre able to dodge the ash plume. we talk ab...

storm. our meteorologist jen delgado joins us from the cnn weather center. jen, how is it looking now? >> we still have watches and warnings across parts of the midwest. of course, we talked about the stormed that happened earlier in the week but according to the national weather service it looks like based on doppler imagery we look like a possible tornado touched down in arkansas. anywhere were seeing in red we still have a tornado watch in effect. thats for parts of arkansas and mis...

Erupted. but the problem has really been confusion because some flights are canceled. the weather and wind has been so changeable. it has been tough to predict where the cloud is going next. for example, tomorrow germany could be affected. and then you have some airlines like the budget ryan air really blasting the british government saying that they found no ash in areas where the government termed red zones where planes arent supposed to fly. here is the ceo of that airline. >> we have no inte...

Space of downtown joplin, missouri, the path went from the left to the right. you see the hospital there to the left side and walmart to your right. and you can tell how this cut right through, andrea, the entire southern half of the joplin city limits. this is, you know, historical. i wouldnt be surprised if we end up maybe top ten death toll all time with this storm. >> bill karins, thank you very much on top of that throughout the day. and this news just in. this breaking news, because of t...

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Conventions, covered by diplomatic immunity, and the white house is calling for him to be released right away. >>shepard: thank you from the pentagon. volcano ash sending thousands running for safety in the philippines in the "ring of fire." we are told the massive plume shot a mile into the sky and officials at one point this say visibility was at zero. they have been handing out makes in an effort to protect people from inhaling the debris and the volcano has had more than a dozen ash eruption...

This lower level, even though its three miles, well call this lower level ash, will be picked up by lower level winds and surface winds blowing toward the uk. even though other countries are opening air space, so to speak, the air space that theyre opening is above 35,000 feet. because that ash that was very high has either blown away or settled out. so the air above 30,000 feet is clean. clean enough for planes to go through. the problem is getting to that 30,000-foot level because you have to ...

This lower level, even those three miles, well still call this lower level ash, will be picked up by the lower level winds and the surface winds. those winds are blowing right towards the u.k. even though other countries are opening air space, so to speak, the air space that theyre opening is above 35,000 feet. because the ash that was very high has either blown away or settled out. so the air above 30,000 feet is clean, clean enough for planes to go through. the problem is getting to that 30,00...

>> first im on the science channel and this blast is so devastating because of ice. it took a minor -- this is a minor eruption but when you add ice to it, it bottled up pressure beneath the ice and caused this enormous destruction throughout europe. this is a perfect storm. very unusual. >> so if it just erupts and the magma goes flying up the volcano theres no issue. the fact that it had to blast through ice first makes this lethal. >> its like industrial grade sandpaper. it will jam up an eng...