41.   Bad weather Thursday also prevented the negotiators from flying to Jolo, a remote southern island where Abu Sayyaf rebels are holding the captives in jungle hide-outs.

42.   Bad weather on Wednesday prevented search and rescue staff from retrieving the bodies of five New Zealanders killed in a plane crash near Milford Sound.

43.   Bad weather prevented them from starting the salvage effort Wednesday.

44.   Biaggi said that warm weather prevented him from doing any better.

45.   But bad weather prevented the plane from searching further and no visual or radar contact was made with Roufs.

46.   But since then, the weather has prevented planes from getting in.

47.   But Yap said harsh weather prevented the workers from moving Friday.

48.   Choppy weather on Tuesday prevented divers from fishing out the plane and bodies.

49.   Cloudy weather on Tuesday prevented aid flights from reaching many areas in the ravaged coastal region of southern Mexico.

50.   CTK said the plane had arrived in Strunkovice on Saturday and originally planned to depart Sunday, but bad weather prevented takeoff.