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British meteorologist office said they saw a new cloud over the ocean. icelanders say it's probably a change of wind patterns that moved ash in a different direction over the ocean. nothing to do with new eruptions. there's been this continuous relatively mild eruption here for the past few days but nothing new is happening in the volcano. as you pointed out, there is seismic activity but related to that continuing eruption. there's nothing to indicate deep inside there's more explosive power waiting to come out. >> just for clarification, reports about the new ash cloud, that is not the case....

Saying that half of the continent's formally scheduled airline flights could resume tomorrow. several european carriers, conducting test flights, today without any incident. now, this combined with better wind patterns, predicted for tomorrow, now emboldening safety officials though the volcano shows no sign of letting up. the airlines have been exerting serious pressure to get back to business and the international air transport association says the industry is losing more than $200 million a day. worldwide. thousands of stranded passengers, also pushing hard, to get back home. global radio n...

Investigation. nature hides what it has in store for us. but people are looking at it very carefully, and i'm sure they're looking at the seismic waves and analyzing the gases that are coming out and trying to estimate how deep the magma chamber is and how fast it's rising up to the surface. we can't predict how long it's going to last. >> is there anything to be done to alter the pattern of an ash cloud much like the concept of cloud seeding for precipitation? is there anything like that out there scientifically? >> i'm afraid we can't control that. usually, you know, what happens is the clou...

They can peer into the heart of it, molten rock surging up. it's thought to have popped the ice like a champagne cork, the force creating these massive plumes, a mix of rock, sand and glass. >> if can you imagine throwing a bucketful of beach sand into the engine of a big airplane, can you imagine it's not going to do the airplane any good. >> reporter: it's like a supersonic sandstorm. too fine for a plane's radar to pick up but capable of jamming engines. >> it will score the rapidly-turning engine turbines. it will corrupt the bleed air system and the atmosphere in the airplane, the pressur...

Flying near the ash, the authorities are dead right in doing what they're doing. >> reporter: the weather forecast shows no change in wind patterns for the next few days. >> we are locked into that same pattern, so we've got that northwest to southeast flow. so if we continue getting eruptions, and we keep that wind flow exactly the same, the exact same areas are going to continue to get hard hit. >> reporter: on british tv tonight, this is the travel warning viewers heard. >> the latest forecast from the office shows that this morning the ash cloud spread to most of the country. by now, few a...