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Jon: and, nina, wall street doesn't have a lot of fans right now among the american people in general, but wall street -- i'm sorry, congress at record lows in terms of people's opinion. and this is a bunch of congressmen and an administration that can't balance the nation's budget. so they're supposed to rewrite financial regulations? >> again, you can step back and say, jon, look, you know, let's, let's find, let's look at a way to what they call reduce systemic risk in the system. let's find a way so that these big financial institutions can fail. they should have to fail, and everybody agr...

Because they're trying to spend their money on food and shelter and waiting for a trip back home. it's rough. it's costing potentially hundreds of millions of dollars for new york city tourism alone. jane: rick, i was just reading some of the reports that the people that were stranded there couldn't actually get to their luggage that they had checked because it was still in the cargo hold, so they couldn't even get to clean clothes and toothbrushes. is that still the case? >> reporter: we saw a couple guys shirtless in the bathroom, basically doing a shower, you know, and shave anything there ...

Jon: breaking news this hour on that volcano in iceland that's been paralyzing air travel worldwide. hello, i'm jon scott. jane and i'm jane skinner. the british government plans to reopen some u.k. air space tomorrow morning. in the meantime, we're just learning that germany is giving lufthansa airlines the green light to fly about 15,000 passengers home. still look at these pictures, this huge ash cloud is leaving millions of people around the world stranded. cost to the aviation industry? more than $200 million every day. let's get to rick leventhal at jfk airport in new york. update us fro...

Column. he was impressed to see these ice blocks flying in the sky for hundreds of meters just below the helicopter. really, really ice. jon: right. the ice blocks being hurled out of the crater. well, they are some incredible pictures, and we very much appreciate you sharing them with us. stay safe as you go back into the volcano in the next hour or so, marco fulle, thank you. >> yeah, yeah. we are flying in one hour, in fact. jon: wow. good for you. jane: would you do it, mr. pilot? jon: i would love to if i flew a helicopter. jane: i guess i would. as if airline passengers aren't frustrated...

Record about that, look, that's the president of the united states, i was showing respect for the office. just this last week this big republican-backed bill in the florida legislature which governor crist had indicated he was going to support, and this was very popular amongst conservative republican florida voters, and that was it would tie teacher pay to test scores and also eliminate tenure for all new teachers. this is wildly popular amongst republican conservative circles. however, after about a week of massive protests statewide by teachers taking days off and calling in sick and holdin...