details for you on the dangers of volcanic ash. he is live from the weather center at the bottom of the hour. plus listen to this do you remember her? candy stayton? she s stuck in london due to the volcanic ash, and she joins us in the cnn newsroom.
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affected. all the uk airspace, dusseldorf, cologne, frankfurt, berlin and the finnish airspace as well and that s because of the way the air is now moving. yesterday it was moving in a slightly different way, coming over the volcano which i will will not pronounce, but you can go you can do a wikipedia search and put that word in and it s and it sounds like something going it sounds like a beatle record going backward. you just had a cosby moment there. that s terrific. that s what it sounds like. today it s sliding down to the east and there s ash circulating from when it didn t make its way down to the west of france and that has to push its way across. it will still be days for some people. we are having too much fun on the friday. i know the bat phone will ring here in a second. candi staton and chad myers, that s good fun. april is national child abuse prevention month and this week s cnn hero is drawing on
channels and play little pranks. what was your big hit? young hearts run free and i have one that went platinum called double love. that s candi staton. how are you? i m good. how are you? you were stuck, where were you supposed to? i was supposed to be in norway and they cancelled it, we can drive there and next week i m trying to fly again, so we just have to bait and see. have you gotten information from your airline as to when you can get out and get going here? every day they push it back. we re getting in the air tomorrow at 1:00 and then the next time you hear it it s, like, we just don t know when you ll get back up in the air so we re all grounded. are you getting a little frustrated. at first i did, but i m starting to enjoy just being on the ground. yeah. yeah.
no conflicts. ah, i see, allan. yeah, so the investors wow, okay. gotc gotcha. allan chernoff in new york for us. what a story. did you want to add something, allan? by the way, tony, those investors lost a billion bucks. the hedge fund betting against the housing market, made a billion. oh, nan. what a story. allan, appreciate it. billion dollars, that s real money. now to the volcanic eruption being felt around the world. 17,000 flights grounded. drifting ash from a volcano in ooigs iceland is to be blamed for it all. forced to shut down airports across much of europe. hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded for a secretary of defense day. i spoke with singer candy stain last hour. she s in london. every day they push it back. they say we can get you we re getting in the air tomorrow at 1:00. and then the next time you hear it, it s like, we just don t know when you ll get back up in