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Good morning, everyone. it's the top of the hour. i'm alex witt here on "msnbc saturday." and developing now, it's a messy weekend for air travel. volcanic ash is expected to cancel an additional 16,000 european flights today, after two previous days of massive cancellations and has left hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded. let's go live to tom aspell who is live at london's heathrow airport. tom, good morning. any word on when flights might resume and things get back to normal? >> reporter: the aviation authorities have announced that british airspace will remain closed until 1:00 su...

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Time line for flights resuming? >> reporter: well, alex, just a few hours ago, in fact, british aviation authorities announced they will make a decision about reopening airports at 7:00 in the morning saturday morning british time. so for the next 12 hours, 13 hours or so, these airports will remain closed. behind me heathrow airport, normally europe's busiest handles 2,000 flights a day and looks after more than 18,000 passengers every day. for the past 24 hours nothing has moved through here. there are a couple of airports in the british isles who briefly opened to allow some flights to leav...

No other medicine, not even advil pm, is more effective for pain and sleeplessness. new motrin pm. it's getting worse before it gets better. more flights canceled in europe because of a drifting ash cloud spewed from the volcano in iceland. tens of thousands of passengers are stranded. robert moore standing by at charles de gaulle airport in paris. we'll get to him in a moment. tom aspell live in heathrow. hello. i know the airport is shut down right now. are you hearing anything about a