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All right. chad s following weather, but one of the things we re following is the weather up in the air, where airplanes are flying in europe. this is a major, major concern for anybody who s not getting the point, you ve got the point right here. volcanic ash from iceland is shutting down airspace. we always look at airport delays because they pop up automatical automatically. as soon as one pops up in the u.s. we get it on the graphics and you can see it on.com. london and heathrow and gatwick are closes and paris, charles de gaulle is closed. you can t get into northern europe. it s shut down even to military aircraft. ire land, sweden, norway, belgium, norway, airspace is closed. richard quest was making the point that this hasn t happened in a long time. this much airspace closed. that s magnified ash. that s what a piece ofable up in the atmosphere looks like that came out of a volcano. they can also look like a piece of pumice, the problem is this ....
Of the flights and it s having an enormous impact. the ash cloud made up of small tiny particles, but they are very coarse. think of pumice, because that s basically what comes out of a volcano, but these ice clouds, the ash clouds, they get into the jet engine. the jet engine is hot. it melts this ash cloud, turns it into basically glass. and then that glass is deposited on the back of the jet engine, and the ash cloud literally chokes the engine to death, and you can t put a jet in that cloud. it s just unsafe. chad, hold on for a moment, because atika shubert is standing by right now at the world s busiest one of the world s busiest air hubs in london. it s already, what, it s getting around close to midnight over there, atika. set the scene for us what s going on. reporter: well, it used to be one of the world s busiest airports, but this is right by heathrow s runway and it is dead quiet. there are absolutely no planes taking off or landing here. all flights across the u ....
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