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Eyjafjallajokull! CBS' Elizabeth Palmer summoned the nerve to enunciate the name of the glacier covering Iceland's erupting volcano last Thursday. Now ABC's Neal Karlinsky joins that honor roll. He took a helicopter to the crater's northern rim and watched there for five minutes in safety because "the wind is carrying everything in the other direction." At a nearby farm he showed us what had been volcanic mud on Sunday. He tried to scrape it with his boot. "The ash has dried almost like cement." NBC's Robert Bazell worried about the health effects of the mixture of iron, silica, magnesium and bromide: "The greatest danger is here at the bottom of the volcano, where there is so much ash, that it has completely blocked out the sun in the middle of the day. I can feel the grit in my teeth and it is constantly going into my eyes." Bazell's colleague Chris Jansing also filed from Iceland where she called the eruption "extremely dynamic…the activity inside the volcano is increasing and the concentration of ash inside that plume is intensifying."
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