detour medevac flights from one war zone to another. we want to go live to cnn pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. barbara, obviously the volcano is having an impact on everything, including the military. you know, it really is, candy. the u.s. may have the strongest military in the world, but right now, it is still mother nature running the show. reporter: joanne and greg are now on their way to see their son andrew, a marine shot in afghanist afghanistan, now finally on his way home via iraq, because of the volcano erupting in iceland. i just want to see him. so, it s been a long time since thursday night. reporter: the u.s. is now sending some troops wounded in afghanistan into this hospital in iraq because it can t fly them to the primary medical facility in germany. the pentagon worries if there s a major battle in afghanistan, it won t be able to treat all the wounded. to have that capacity ready
than two dozen planes headed for london in the hope they d be able to land there. that effort may pay off with british airspace now set to reopen. but we haven t seen the last of that massive ash cloud spewing from a volcano in iceland. we want to go to our meteorologist, chad myers, at the cnn weather center in atlanta. chad, so things could get worse before they get better, or are they getting better? well, they re getting better than the first eruption that went up 40,000 feet. now, all of these eruptions are only about 18,000 feet. what s the difference? well, if you get it up to 45,000 feet, then you re in the jet area where the jets actually fly. if you get it in the, let s say, the 15,000 feet area, you can fly over that ash cloud. so, we ll have to keep watching. where s the ash now? well, it s in the right side zone. it s even all the way to maine. maine you should wake up tomorrow and see an amazing sunrise. that s what it s going to do for basically the u.s. and a lot of e
at our hands means we have to move those wounded soldiers. reporter: the flow of troops and cargo into the war zone, also slowed down. the secretary-general of nato insists security across europe hasn t been affected by the volcanic ash cloud. i can assure you that the icelandic volcano does not have any affect effect on our operations nor our neither our operations nor our territorial defense of allied member states. reporter: but the u.s. air force is now inspecting every aircraft it has in europe to check for damage. look at these pictures from the finnish air force, ash and rocks melted onto to their fa-18 engines after they flew.
flight has arrived. more than half of european flights were cleared to fly for first time today. scientists worry that increased seismic activity at the volcano could lead to another eruption. one of the teens charged with bullying a massachusetts 15-year-old who committed suicide is now pleading not guilty to a drunken driving charge. the 18-year-old was arraigned today, then released on personal recognizance. he was arrested yesterday with a blood alcohol level of 01.5. five others have also been charged in weconnection with th case. the president of the colorado rockies team has died. 48-year-old keli mcgregor was found unconscious in his salt lake city hotel room this morning. medics were unable to revive him. the cause of death is unknown. now, the rockies are scheduled to play the washington nationals here in d.c. this evening. the united states has lost a major civil rights movement
v vulcanologists, a volcano 12 miles away from we ll call it e-15, because i can t pronounce it, 12 miles away. and the last time e-15 erupted, katla, c-k-a-t-l-a, also erupted and sometimes that can be a bigger eruption than the e-15, can you imagine two simultaneously erupting and all of that ash flowing over europe? it could be months of travel interruptions, maybe even years, the last time the volcano e-15 erupted, it kept spewing ash for two years, candy. wow. the things that happen you never actually even thought about. let me ask you, we had the planes that took off for heathrow not knowing if they could land, a flight i m not sure i d be on. we are hearing that heathrow is open. are they landing? they are landing right now. heathrow did open up about an hour ago. and i can kind of show you what happened here. the map behind me timed out while i was standing here waiting to talk to you, so i