CNN CNN Newsroom Live December 9, 2019 08:04:00
This volcano? >> reporter: you know, it was very interesting because at the last police conference, the government press conference that took place in new zealand, we heard from an earth scientist who said it was not a particularly big eruption and called it a, quote, throat-clearing eruption. this was an eruption that was not necessarily big. we learned later that new zealand airlines said that its flights were not affected at all. they said it's not big because it wasn't powerful enough to disperse volcanic material beyond the island itself. but it's a very different situation on white islan...