thousands of flights that have been canceled and thousands of passengers stranded around the world. lufthansa to fly 50 planes back to grmds with passengers aboard. president obama will be traveling to new york city on thursday we re learning. he ll deliver remarks on financial reform. the president to call for swift senate action on financial regulation. he ll remind americans what s at stake if we don t move forward with changing the rules of the road as a strong wall street reform package. again, the president to discuss financial reform in new york city thursday. and we want to go back to the breaking news that we started the hour w the leader of al qaeda in iraq. according to military reports now to official, al masri has been killed. this happened over the weekend. we re waiting for more information on exactly what happened. again, the leader of al qaeda in iraq, al masri has been killed. flights may be starting to get off the ground in europe as we just reported with lufth
here, maybe a couple hundred. is an all day event supporting and protecting second amendment gun rights. these are people from all over the country who say this nation needs to make sure that people who live here can responsibly carry guns. now, there are no guns at this rally, because it s in d.c. and d.c. bans firearms. quite frankly, they have been very adamant about the fact they want this to be a peaceful event. they have urged the people here not to bring this guns at all. as you said, it s a different event over in virginia, they are expecting to have people show up with their guns. they are dealing with all sorts of constitutional issues in addition to the second amendment. monica. tracie, thank you for that. we do have breaking news coming to the newsroom we want to get you up to speed on. this regarding the volcano in iceland. according to airport authority lufthansa granted permission to fly 50 planes back to germany for passengers. good news for some passengers but just a