beautiful place? what are we being punished for? our visit with olipher was on sunday. we thought we would see how he was doing on monday, but the visibility made it difficult to find his farm, because for the second time in three days, it was getting pummeled by ash from the eruption up above. >> gary, i know you met with one of iceland's top volcanic experts today. what does he think about the future of this volcano? >> reporter: well, anderson, right now, here, it's wednesday morning, 2:30 a.m., but magnus gudmundsson, who is a scientist at the university of iceland tells us that on tuesday, monday, and sunday, the eruptions were much weaker than saturday, friday, and thursday. and he says, therefore, there's a very good indication that the worst is over, but he doesn't want to make any guarantees. so being the inquisitive guy i am, i said, so do you say, maybe 70, 80, 90% chance that the worst is over, and he looked at me, very amused, and he said, you can't put percentages to volcanos.