that would certainly ruin your vacation. yes. yes. zain verjee, thank you. we will keep an eye on that volcano in iceland. we will go back to london in a few minutes. president obama s busy day includes a meeting with britain s prime minister. we will take you to 110 downing street. our t.j. holmes will walk through a destroyed home. [ female announcer ] splenda® no calorie sweetener is sweet.
saying that ash spewing from a volcano in iceland will force the cancellation of up to 500 flights today. as many as 250 flights have already been shrubbed scrubbed, ash preventing president obama causing president obama to disrupt his trip to ireland. last year, europe had to close its air space for five days, stranding millions from traveling. alisyn: we re hearing new and terrifying accounts from survivors of the joplin tornado, st. john s medical center took a direct hit. after it was all over, one witness said it looked like a bomb blew out the windows there. five patients and one hospital visitor were killed there during the storm. many of the rest of the patients are now being treated at locations throughout the state. the ceo of st. john s hospital joins me now. good morning, sir. good morning. alisyn: can you tell us what the scene was like inside the hospital on sunday when the tornadoes struck? actually, it was incredible. it was really like a bomb
critical condition. the confirmed death toll in sunday s disaster now stands at 118. but authorities say more than ten times that many still are unaccounted for. joplin s head of emergency management says people scattered and simply can t get home or maybe no longer have homes and haven t yet called in. but then there s will norton, blown out of his hummer on his way home from high school graduation. his family thinks thinks he s in a hospital somewhere. and sky lar logs don, a 1-year-old. his great uncle spoke to cnn this morning. the night of the tornado that evening. and they had him in the hallway in the house, and they all got covered in the hallway in the house and when the tornado hit, they lost track of him and we haven t seen him since. was skylar s mother holding on to him? yes, she was. and she lost him in the aftermath amidst all of this. and it s just terrible. and no one has seen him since. the rest of the family is doing okay. we ve just got to find h
more tornadoes are possible today across the region. right now, the death toll stands at 116. that ties the single deadliest tornado record in u.s. history. so far, rescue crews have pulled 17 survivors from the rubble but time and the weather, now the enemies. precious hours are slipping away as bleak reality set in. t.j. holms in joplin. you went out with one of the rescue teams. what did you see? reporter: last night, i couldn t believe what i was seeing, carol. i have been covering tornadoes for a long time. grew up with tornadoes really in the south. i can t figure them out. if you see behind me. this is the part i can t figure out. that neighborhood in the short distance behind me is doing just fine. those homes are not touched. now, come with me and just a street over and this is what you see. this neighborhood taken out. still, the camera shot you are seeing right there, we can t figure out really if there was a house here or not. you can t figure out what s going
particularly yemen. the arab states extending the transition deal to get it revised after he refused to sign it. and earlier the yemeni helicopter had to fly u.s. and ambassadors out of the embassies. they had been trapped there waiting for hours to witness the sala. and eventually they were to the presidential palace and salae looking on. and the latest eruption from a volcano in iceland the largest in one hundred years. it was spewing ash 12 miles into the sky and officials clearing 120 nautical miles of air space, calling all domestic air flights off and shutting down the international airport and ash expected to reach parts of the scotland by tuesday and scientists saying while the eruption is large in scale, the potential impact on travel may not be so bad due to