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Injuries. again, let's go back to fredricka whitfield, who is in atlanta. fredricka covered this story right when it broke on the air, and tom sader is there as well in the cnn severe weather center. tom, we heard there from jim tillmon who is also a meteorologist, he said the conditions were perfect. >> yeah. >> the conditions were fine. so, what gives here? >> you know, we're going to put this to rest as fredricka and i talked about earlier, don, obviously they're going to put this in the reports. there will be full detail of every hourly weather observations, even the conditions at flight l...

The storm is extremely large. 400 miles wide, and if you'd like to take a look at our map here, that is -- if you were to drive from san francisco to los angeles, that's how wide this storm is. so there you have it. we've actually mapped it out for you. that is how big. so this is going to take up a lot of gulf coast real estate, not just a new orleans storm but all along the coast of mississippi, alabama and the florida panhandle. again, it's been trying to get its act together for some time now. because it's so large that is one of the reasons why we haven't seen a tightening of the core her...

How do would he know that, samuel jackson's movie, the cleaner was broadcast over air space. the controller's microphone stuck in the on position, and that didn't allow incoming radio calls from those planes. steve centanni live in washington with this. steve, what details do we have on this thing? >> reporter: it happened early sunday on a radar center outside of cleveland where controllers monitor aircraft flying at high altitudes. the troerl was watching that movie and accidentally left his mike open. planes who were trying to contact him for instructions on flight level, direction and spee...

And there is still a lot of near collisions where people are following visual flight rules. for example, everyone remembers the mid air over new york with the helicopter and fix the wing over the hudson. they were following visual flight rules. meaning they were seeing avoiding. that doesn't work. the airport is still most dangerous part. but once you're in the open skies, there is a lot of room for our nation's 239,000 airplanes. the problem is they try to funnel into 460 airports that are commercial use airports. and that's the biggest concern. so as soon as you're up to flight level, you ca...

Flight level, up to at least 18,000 feet now. so when it gets into the upper levels of the atmosphere the higher the eruption the greater problems that you'll have. if you do have travel plans overseas into europe the next couple of days, even into middle to latter part of next week, make sure you check those flights before you take off. okay. if you're traveling around the u.s. today, domestically, we do have airport delays. they're not pretty, unfortunately. more than two hours now at jfk. newark about an hour and a half. laguardia 35 minutes there and 50 minutes in san francisco. the proble...