agreed to create these kind of caution zones where planes will be able to fly through, so by tomorrow we should see some passengers finally making their way home. nbc s dawna friesen live in our london bureau. thank you. while the impact to air travel is devastating the situation on the ground isn t much better. the plume of ash and smoke billoed 30,000 feet into the air and the ash is blanketing miles of countryside causing problems for people and their live stock. some people are evacuating. but farmers are staying behind to try and rescue some of the animals. nbc s chief science correspondent bob bazell joins us live from iceland. tell us about the conditions on the ground. reporter: it s a beautiful, cold day here. i can start with that. behind me you can see the volcano. yesterday that plume was 30,000 feet high. today it s close to the 8,000 feet high. and scientists don t know if this is the beginning of the end of the eruption or if it s a brief interlude and a ma
of absence on this committee side? how long will this investigation take? well, it s unclear because the ethics committee does its own work. it s a bipartisan committee equally divided between republicans and democrats, and they investigate these issues thoroughly and we don t know what their timetable is. we didn t know when they would be coming forward with their latest recommendations and we don t know when they ll complete action on the others. what we do know is the ethics committee has finally been working i say finally because there were many, many decades and years in the past where things would go to the ethics committee and never emerge and the ethics committee is now doing its work and we saw that with their most recent recommendations. on health care reform, president obama this afternoon is going to be outlining essentially his final proposal for what he wants from health care reform. he includes a couple of republican ideas from the summit meeting last wee
all right. so the great thing, willie, is here we had dylan ratigan here, who would bust our ass every morning because we would only throw the show two or three four times. chris jansing is here, does one show, and she s licke, how abou getting the show to me on time this morning. you ve got three seconds to do that. there i was, out in the desert of new mexico, 1979, and i m sitting there, the sun is beating down on the car here she comes. and i thought, is this my road to damascus. let me tell you, something, friends, when you were touched that way. willie, what did you learn today? i learned that joe and mika will be in madison, connecticut, tonight, rj julia. i learned i m taking this. i learned you can t do everything at once. here she is, the star of the moment! that was wonderful. thank you. good luck. and mika will be at rj julia tonight. you are too. i am too. defending tiger woods in front of a bunch of really angry woman. no! it s a
introducing aveeno ultra-calming with active naturals feverfew. we know feverfew. has properties that help neutralize irritation. to strengthen skin and calm redness in just one week. discover new aveeno ultra-calming. welcome back, kids. it s time to talk about what we learned today. willie? i learned that redskins head coach jim zorn is now former redskins head coach, jim zorn. andy? i learned i m going to pre-order mika s book, preorder, and both order. but willie, if it s way too early, what time is it? it s morning joe. was right now we turn it over to chris jansing. right now on msnbc, security breach. a passenger rights walk through screening at one of the nation s largest airports. how did it happen? can we contain a growing al qaeda threat? we ll ask that question live to the top republican on the senate intelligence committee. plus, what you need to know about $50 billion in new bank card fees being rolled out, as we speak. good morning, i m chris
this just a fphoto-op, somethin that gets into traction for the white house as so many people still are expressing doubt we re turning around and as you point out jobs are being saved and created? well, look, i think it helps the president, first of all, to get out of the white house right now, to send the message that he is actually more in touch with ordinary americans and their problems and that he is focused on the economy and on jobs and unemployment. right now people are looking for him not only to feel their pain but their anger about what s going on out there and i think anytime you can get out there and touch real people it s a good day for him. he wasn t elected to help the fat cats on wall street. we ll wait to hear what he has to say. we re expecting the white house to announce up to 100 detainees from guantanamo bay will be transferred to a maximum security prison in illinois. the thomson correctional facility about 150 miles west of chicago. the move places