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Going home. relief coming after a nightmare of six days in which airports were virtually shut down. nbc's tom aspell is in london. tom, having worked all over the weekend with you at a very quiet heathrow airport, how do things look like there? a little more back to normal? >> reporter: i'd say it's pretty bezzy, yeah. probably running about 60% of capacity. that's a bit of a reflection of european air space at the moment. normally they handle 28,000 flights a day in european air space. today they estimate they're going to do 21,000. almost back to normal. but the problem is, just a big backlo...

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Visual flight rules, not using radar or anything like that, to avoid running through the cloud. but also to test if it would be feasible to resume some flights as soon as possible. >> what's the problem with passenger flaights not being abe to go at that altitude? would that be considered or not? >> reporter: i think it's a little risky to fly at that altitude if there are so many flights in the air at once. europe handles about 28,000 flights a day. it would reduce their room for maneuverability should there be an emergency flying at that level but also it would not be fuel efficient to use j...

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President lech kaczynski and his wife, maria. they were traveling to a memorial service at katyn, where thousands of polish and russian soldiers were murdered by soviet forces in 1940 during world war ii. with the death of president kaczynski, the polish constitution says there should be presidential elections within the next two months. al lx? >> all right. so, tom, let's get to what this does in terms of leaving the country of poland in incredible disarray. with so many from different areas, from the army, the head of the national bank, the president, how much does this disrupt daily life in...