By Alexandra Banner, CNN

A manhunt is underway in Tennessee for a suspect authorities say is armed and accused of attempting to kill his wife. The rugged terrain of steep hills — combined with the man’s extensive Army survival training — is complicating the search.

Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day.

1⃣ Primaries

President Donald Trump vowed revenge when the Republican supermajority in the Indiana state Senate embarrassed him in December by voting down his demands to redraw the state’s congressional maps to help the party win two more seats. And in Tuesday’s primary, he got it. At least five of the seven Trump-endorsed challengers defeated GOP incumbent state senators who voted against redistricting. Read more.

2⃣ CNN debate

Seven candidates for California governor moved aggressively during CNN’s primary debate on Tuesday to distinguish themselves with less than a month left in the race — and as some voters have already received ballots. The event featured five Democrats and two Republicans, with the top two vote-getters, regardless of party, advancing to the June 2 nonpartisan primary. Read more.

3⃣ Strait of Hormuz

President Trump said the US will pause efforts to guide stranded vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, citing progress in diplomatic talks, but will maintain its blockade of Iranian ports. Trump’s comments that “great progress” has been made in talks with Iran are helping to ease oil prices, even as the blockade continues to squeeze global shipping. Read more.

4⃣ Hantavirus outbreak

Three people aboard a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak are expected to be evacuated as a political battle brews over whether the vessel can dock at the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago. The leader of the Canary Islands said today that he opposes the ship docking — contradicting the Spanish government, which said it would allow the ship to dock in about three days. Read more.

5⃣ Psychiatric drugs

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan this week to reduce the “overprescribing” of psychiatric medications and support alternative treatment options and discontinuation of medications when needed. Some psychiatry experts generally welcomed the efforts, but also noted concerns. Read more.

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Por Matt Egan, CNN

Estados Unidos produce tanto petróleo que millones de barriles de crudo se envían al extranjero cada día.

Esos barriles estadounidenses se han vuelto extremadamente valiosos para el resto del mundo desde que la guerra en Medio Oriente dejó atrapados casi mil millones de barriles de petróleo en el Golfo.

Las naciones asiáticas y europeas se han apresurado a reemplazar el crudo que quedó varado debido al cierre del estrecho de Ormuz, lo que ha provocado un aumento vertiginoso de la demanda de exportaciones de petróleo estadounidense.

Esto plantea una pregunta obvia: si Estados Unidos tiene suficiente petróleo para exportar, ¿por qué no almacenar más crudo, gasolina y combustible para aviones en el país para frenar el rápido aumento de los precios?

Después de todo, Estados Unidos exporta más crudo del que importa. Y algunos otros países, incluido China, comenzaron a limitar sus propias exportaciones de petróleo hace semanas.

Expertos del sector reconocen que los controles a las exportaciones podrían contener los precios a corto plazo.

Sin embargo, a largo plazo, temen que tales restricciones arruinen a las refinerías estadounidenses y dañen la reputación de Estados Unidos como proveedor confiable de energía, lo que podría sumir a sus aliados en una recesión.

La administración Trump afirma que reducir las exportaciones no es una opción que se esté considerando.

El secretario de Energía, Chris Wright, y el secretario del Interior, Doug Burgum, han asegurado repetidamente, tanto en público como en privado, que la Casa Blanca no está considerando imponer restricciones a las exportaciones.

Pero algunos legisladores esperan que la Casa Blanca reconsidere su postura.

El representante demócrata Ro Khanna presentó recientemente  un proyecto de ley  que  prohibiría la exportación de gasolina  durante los períodos de precios elevados del combustible.

“Es de sentido común”, declaró Khanna a Fox Business el mes pasado. “¿Por qué enviaríamos nuestro petróleo al extranjero cuando a los estadounidenses les están estafando en las gasolineras?… Deberíamos tener nuestro propio suministro de petróleo para los estadounidenses… Eso bajaría el precio”.

Si bien prohibir las exportaciones de energía podría reportar réditos políticos, algunos analistas advierten que no tendrá el resultado deseado.

El problema radica en que la compleja cadena de suministro energético de Estados Unidos depende de una combinación de importaciones y exportaciones.

Matt Smith, analista principal de petróleo en Kpler, destaca que, si bien Estados Unidos es un exportador neto de petróleo, aún importa 6,5 ​​millones de barriles de crudo al día.

Las refinerías estadounidenses, ya obsoletas, han agotado su capacidad de producción de crudo ligero y dulce procedente de la cuenca Pérmica, en el oeste de Texas y Nuevo México.

A menudo, necesitan combinar este petróleo de esquisto estadounidense con mezclas más pesadas procedentes de Canadá, Oriente Medio y Latinoamérica para producir gasolina y diésel. El crudo estadounidense sobrante se exporta.

En otras palabras, Estados Unidos no es una isla energética aislada.

Prohibir las exportaciones

We begin Wednesday morning with a few areas of patchy fog before a rapid clearing pattern occurs. High pressure is moving into the area, bringing the heat with it. Expect temperatures to rise 5-8 degrees from the first half of the week. Maximum temperatures for all will be in the upper 60s and low 70s.

Clear skies prevail Thursday. Temperatures increase another 5-10 degrees. Most areas jump into the 80s! Make sure to stay hydrated and keep your sunscreen available!

Bright and hot weather is expected for Mother's Day weekend. Treat your mom to an ice cream cone! We rise to 80s every afternoon, with some mid 80s expected inland. The heat holds through next week.

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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN

(CNN) — They’ve lived in various destinations, including San Francisco and Ireland, over the years but Geoffrey and Sarah say they’ve never felt as at home as they do in Germany.

The couple, who relocated to Breisach, located along the temperate Rhine Valley, in 2023, loves exploring the riverbanks, parks and forests in the charming town, known as the gateway to the Black Forest, with their six-year-old son.

After two and a half years in Breisach, which is built on a hilltop, Geoffrey and Sarah — who have chosen to withhold their surnames for personal reasons — say they’ve been welcomed with open arms and now feel like a part of the local community.

“It didn’t have anything to do with us,” says Geoffrey. “It had to do with the people here that really opened up their hearts to us.”

While they are happily settled in Germany today, the couple says moving there was never part of their plan.

Geoffrey and Sarah, who’ve been married since 2005, were content with their lives in Colorado and had no intention of leaving the US until around a decade ago.

Big decision

Geoffrey says he became depressed after the 2016 US presidential election and began to look at his life there differently. Around a year later, he was let go from his job as a software test engineer.

“That sort of pushed me over a ledge,” Geoffrey told CNN Travel. “I wanted some emotional distance from what was happening around me, and that meant geographical distance.”

As Sarah had been able to obtain Irish citizenship by descent through her grandmother, Ireland was high on the list of contenders as a potential new home for their family, and they began looking into opportunities there, as well as in the US.

When Geoffrey was offered a job in Dublin, they felt that this was the right time to make a change.

“If I’d found one in the US, we probably would have stayed,” Geoffrey reflects today.

Leaving the US wasn’t an easy decision for Geoffrey and Sarah, who say they had a strong support network in Colorado. They had just completed major work on the house they truly believed would be their forever home.

Instead of selling, they decided to rent out the three-bedroom property to keep it as a safety net. That proved simple, but finding a rental to move into in Dublin, since they couldn’t afford to buy a home in the Irish capital, was trickier.

So they got “creative.” Inspired by friends who’d been living on a boat for years, they bought a houseboat based in the Netherlands and had it moved to Malahide, a coastal town just north of Dublin with a marina.

The vessel arrived two days before they did, in June 2018.

“It could have gone horribly wrong, but it all worked out,” says Geoffrey.

They brought everything they needed, along with their two dogs, with them on the plane. The most expensive part of the relocation was buying the houseboat, which cost around €64,000 (roughly $74,800). Renting space at the marina cost around €435 (around $508) a month.

“Given that that was our full-time housing, it wasn’t too bad,” says Sarah.

Ireland adventure

Geoffrey and Sarah spent about five years living in Ireland, staying on the boat for a year and a half before moving into a small house in the heart of Dublin.

“When we were expecting our child, we decided that living on a boat in the Irish Sea was maybe not the best place to have an infant running around,” explains Geoffrey.

After a few years they began to get itchy feet once again, says Sarah, adding that Ireland started to feel a bit “insular” over time, and she was ready to move on.

“I like having a few more opportunities and options, so we were excited,” she adds.

So why Germany? Both had studied German previously, and lived in the cou

By Ella Nilsen, Sam Hart, CNN

(CNN) — The world’s second-tallest tsunami wave on record tore through the remote Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska last August, leaving immense destruction in its wake.

Luckily, there were no people nearby. But in its aftermath, scientists immediately went to work, piecing together what happens when a mountainside collapse kicks off a mega-tsunami and no one is around to see it.

This is how it happened: On August 10, at 5:30 in the morning, an entire mountainside at the mouth of the receding South Sawyer glacier detached, falling into the ocean and producing a monster wave. At its peak, the wave raced up over 1,500 feet on the opposing wall of the fjord — a height taller than Kuala Lumpur’s twin Petronas towers.

The mega-tsunami wreaked havoc across the landscape, stripping forests down to bare rock, ripping trees out by their roots and hurling boulders.

It also produced a seismic vibration so strong it shook the entire planet for days. Only the second time that an effect like this has been recorded anywhere, it was caused by trapped energy from the wave sloshing around in the fjord for days following the initial event.

In the months following the tsunami, a dozen scientists from the US, Canada and Europe have been doing “detective” work, attempting to “re-create this hazards cascade,” said Daniel Shugar, a geomorphologist and professor at the University of Calgary.

Scientists see the fingerprints of climate change all over this event and several others like it that have occurred in recent years. Many of them have been linked to retreating glaciers, as melting ice destabilizes the mountains and land that had been covered for centuries.

“As the climate is changing, as glaciers are retreating, we are likely going to see more of these kinds of events in high latitude environments in the Arctic and the sub-Arctic,” Shugar said.

“I can barely believe it”

Even for scientists who study these kinds of disasters, the awe-inducing destruction and power of the Tracy Arm mega-tsunami is hard for the human brain to comprehend.

The mountainside that slid off to produce the skyscraper-size wave was, itself, more than 3,200 feet tall — higher than the world’s tallest building. Today, the mountainside looks bare, as though the 370 million metric tons of rock were scooped out as they slid into the ocean below, leaving a concave scar.

When tsunami modeler and researcher Patrick Lynett traveled with a team to the site of the landslide months later for field work, he was left in awe by the disaster’s magnitude.

“I saw it in real life, and I can barely believe it,” said Lynett, a professor at the University of Southern California.

It may seem odd that such a disaster left no injuries or deaths. But the sheer height of tsunami waves doesn’t always correspond with the number of fatalities. Counterintuitive as it might be, the deadliest tsunamis in the world happened with much smaller waves than either Tracy Arm or the 1958 Lituya Bay tsunami — the current record-holder for biggest wave. (Lituya Bay killed between 2 and 5 people, sources differ.)

Landslide-induced tsunamis can best be thought of as a big splash set off by many tons of rock falling into deep water, often in narrow channels like mountain fjords. Just like when you throw a big rock into a river, the splash happens quickly. Colossal as it was, the Tracy Arm wave happened in just 45 seconds to a minute.

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