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Yet, trace. >> we talked a lot, john, about the whole airport situation at la guardia and philly and a lot of delays. how much of that played into this today? >> well, again, the discussion started right after the two measures failed in the senate and there was an urgency here to get the government reopened. this morning when there was a ground stop at la guardia, that kicked everything in high gear. the president was briefed about this earlier today. listen here. it's a statement. she said the president has been briefed and we're monitoring the ongoing delays at some airports. we're in regula...

Logan is one of the places where it was launched on new york -- where it was launched. it was at the request of local law enforcement and they were three nautical miles from the site and extended to 3,000 feet. in other words they didn't want choppers up there. the f.a.a. has now reduced the radius to two miles. the f.a.a. put a ground stop in place briefly to change the runway configuration. but it has lifted. we initially had choppers in the air because they were covering live the boston marathon. certainly who ever planted these bombs knew there were choppers above. they were guaranteed the...

We are expected it to be a little more light and variable in the next couple of days. we think they're going to pick up more strongly from the north as we head towards the middle part of the week. here's a really cool satellite picture i just want to show you from earlier in the week. there you can see it. this is the plume of ash. all that dark brown stuff that you see there. now, in addition to having some flight cancellations as well as some delays, because you're trying to fly around those ash clouds, we've got some problems here in the u.s., too. jfk looking at more than two-hour delays. ...