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grounded as volcanic ash clouds a continent. and nato keeps up the pressure on moammar gadhafi. tripoli comes in for more bombing. we begin in london where the u.s. president is kicking off day two of his state visit to britain. right now barack obama is at 10 downing street for talks with british prime minister david cameron. they ve got lot on their plates, the talks mark a shift in tone for the president. tuesday was mostly about pageantry, meeting the royal family and getting the vip treatment over at buckingham palace. today it is all about politics. and washington s close ties with the uk, that s really going to be at the heart of mr. obama s address to parliament today. he s expected to say american relations with the uk and nato are essential to global security. to number 10 downing street and to our white house correspondent, brianna keeler. what is president obama s message going to be to david cameron? we re just a short distance away from 10 downing street
eric. reporter: if you re here and you re trying to get over there, that ain t happening. the wacky weather across the globe is causing travel nightmares before the holiday weekend. france, belgium, germany are seeing delays. but not as bad as in britain. british troops called out to try to clear the runways at heathrow airport. tens of thousands of passengers stranded, many as you can see sleeping on the floor. they have been doing that the past three days. it s been terrible. there is no information, nobody is saying nothing to us. they are saying they can t give us our money back, and we don t really know where to go from here. reporter: that fancy train the euro star not faring much better. major delays and some canceled. passengers have to wait seven hours even to board a train. skiers in colorado are
way to continue on with their travel if their flights are canceled or what s the deal with the rail trouble? reporter: well, exactly. there s a reduced service on the euro star because of the cold weather and slow down the trains. not able to run as many and additional problem of everyone trying to get to europe by flying is now trying to get on to the euro star and why we literally see hundreds of people in a queue waiting for hours overnight trying to get on a train and then euro stars says you are not going to get on the train without a confirmation. yikes. amazing. atika shub effort for us, thanks. people in southern california bracing for even more rain. authorities are going door to door to get people to leave their homes because of the flooding and possible mud slides. southern california is taking a beating from a storm. pineapple express that flooded in. more than a foot of rain fallen in some areas and higher vale igss they could get as much as 15 feet of snow by the
through christmas. as you said rnlgs it s not just heathrow alone, bru europe in general. there are problemsality charles deg gall. they had to shut that airport down because they ran out of deicing fluid. trucks were literally stranded coming from france to supply them with that. they had to soirs it out to a company in germany. some people thinking they might be able to travel by trains, they re running into huge problems in london. the euro star which runs from london to paris is canceling one of every four trains. people that have reservations have to stand in line for close to seven hours to get on board trains that will arrive several hours late. savannah? are you still planning to get on a plane tomorrow? you still think that s a good idea? reporter: well, i have my fingers crossed. i have a reservation for thursday morning. i m hoping that seat will still be there. who knows? at this point, it s all in the air. we wish it was up in the air.