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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 we re seeing in red we still have a tornado watch in effect. that s for parts of arkansas and missouri. if i take you over to this, we have a report that one person died. it s a rural town, but based on the imagery, the national weather service has told cnn it looks like this area may have suffered widespread damage, the tornado roughly one mile wide is what they re reporting. of course, we have to wait until tomorrow before the national weather service goes back out and surveys the damage to find out whether or not it was a tornado that touched down. i ll tell you this. it looks lik ....
U.s. president barack obama left ireland for great britain a day early on monday night in case the ash led to airport closures. now you may remember it was almost this time last year that an ash cloud lingered over european air space, messing up travel plans for millions of people. and indeed cost airlines and the economy a bundle. let s go to emily reuben for more on what could turn out to be another expensive cloud. how much it cost last time? charles, let me go to that in a minute. we have information coming in from the civil aviation authority. they said the weather is on our side, the ash is moving quickly and subsiding which is good news, i suppose. we re also getting information from euro control, the european organization for air safety who have just said that 252 flights have been canceled. let s take a look at the 2010 volcanic ash cloud. because that did cause economic havoc as you say. around 10 million passengers were left stranded. there were more than 100,000 ....
canceled flights in scotland and northern england. mr. obama will be visiting buckingham palace where he ll spend two nights. the president left ireland for the uk ahead of schedule last night due to that cloud of volcanic ash. in the u.s., the tornado that blew through missouri has claimed 116 lives and left a trail of destruction. the u.s. national weather service says it was the most deadly tornado in more than 60 years. those are the headlines, i m zain vergee at cnn in london. world business today starts now. good morning from cnn london, i m charles hodson. and good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m andrew stevens. you re watching world business today. the top stories on tuesday, may 24th, under the weather, travel trouble looms as volcanic ash blows towards europe. meanwhile, investors on the continent have caught debt contagent fever. the scramble in the cockpit to save the airliner. they don t have ability to go anywhere. they don t have abili ....
Across the state in the event they are needed, and, as i mentioned, the d.o.t. has all of their equipment out on the roads, so we think we re in fairly good shape in terms of the preparations. all right. is it going to be a long night for you? where are you, peter? i was in the emergency operations center earlier this evening. i think it will be a long night for all of us, but that s what we re here for, and we re very pleased with the preparations so far, and we eel be briefing governor rell again at 5:30 in the morning prior to the rush hour to make sure that we re on track. all right. peter boynton, the commissioner of connecticut s department of emergency management and homeland security joining us on the line there. thanks very much from hartford, connecticut. you can find out about the travel delays in your area online if you go to cnn.com/travel. click on the link airport delays, and you ll find a status update on the busiest u.s. airport, the average delay time and what i ....
Travel delays in your area online if you go to cnn.com/travel. click on the link airport delays, and you ll find a status update on the busiest u.s. airport, the average delay time and what is causing it, and some of those airport closures as well in the new york area. we ll be right back. stay with us. you re watching cnn newsroom. ....