By Sophie Tanno, CNN

(CNN) — Kenyan runner Sabastian Sawe made history by becoming the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours in a competitive race to win the London Marathon.

Sawe broke the world record to complete the London Marathon in 1:59:30.

His time shatters the previous world record, held by the late athlete Kelvin Kiptum, who finished the Chicago Marathon in 2:00:35.

Eliud Kipchoge, also from Kenya, became the first man recorded to run a marathon in under two hours in 2019. However, his time did not count as a record as the race was held under controlled conditions.

On Sawe’s heels for much of the race was Yomif Kejelcha of Ethiopia, who faded during the marathon’s final stretch to take second place.

Yet Kejelcha also finished the race in under two hours, with a time of 1:59:41.

Asked if he had envisioned breaking a world record, Sawe told the BBC after the race, “We start the race well and approaching the end of finishing the race I was feeling strong.”

“I am so happy,” he added.

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By Samantha Delouya, CNN

(CNN) — Home shoppers scrolling through real estate search engines like Zillow or Redfin this spring may notice some unusual listings: homes labeled “Coming Soon” or “Preview.”

They look like regular listings, with property photos and neighborhood details – but one key feature is missing: sales history, the information buyers use to see how long a home has been on the market or whether its price has been cut. The homes can still be purchased, even though they have not yet officially hit the market.

The new listing format is the brainchild of Robert Reffkin, the co-founder and chief executive of Compass. For nearly two years, Reffkin has pushed promoting new listings online before homes are technically for sale – a practice sometimes called pre-marketing – and other real estate firms are beginning to follow his lead.

Reffkin, who oversees the world’s largest real estate brokerage, is reshaping how homes are sold. Supporters say “Coming Soon” listings give sellers and real estate agents more control over how properties are marketed. Critics warn the approach could splinter the housing market, making it harder for buyers to know what homes are really worth; sellers could also struggle to test demand and get top dollar, they argue.

Traditional listings typically show a home’s price history and how long it has been on the market — information pulled from local Multiple Listing Services, the databases real estate agents use to share properties for sale. Reffkin has called that record a “killer of value,” arguing that buyers often treat that knowledge as an invitation to negotiate a lower price.

“I believe buyers have the right to know what attributes of the house are real and accurate. I don’t believe buyers have the right to know days on market and price drop history,” Reffkin said in an interview with CNN. “You can’t buy days on market and you can’t buy price drop history. You buy the attributes of the house.”

Reffkin’s strategy is rippling across the industry. Zillow once tried to block pre-market listings from its platform. Now Zillow has its own feature showcasing homes before they officially hit the market. Rival brokerages are experimenting with similar tactics.

In February, Redfin also partnered with Compass to exclusively showcase the brokerage’s “Coming Soon” listings. Varun Krishna, the interim CEO of Redfin, told CNN that he sees the partnership and Compass’s embrace of pre-marketed listings as a way to revive the country’s stalled housing market, which has been hampered by scarce inventory and high mortgage rates.

“No one can say that what’s happening today is working. It’s just not,” Krishna said. “There is a housing crisis today. We have no buyers, we have no sellers, and someone has got to do something to unlock that.”

Compass’s footprint grows

Reffkin calls Compass’s signature marketing approach the “3-Phase Marketing Strategy.” Instead of listing a home everywhere at once, Compass encourages agents to roll out listings gradually: first privately to a small network of agents and buyers, called a “private exclusive,” then as “coming soon” listings online, and finally as traditional public listings across real estate platforms.

“If buyers deserve to know days on market and price drop history, then sellers deserve to know how long the buyer has been searching on the portals and MLS, and how many offers they put in that fell through,” Reffkin said.

Many in the real estate industry initially balked at Compass’s marketing strategy. The method breaks with the long-standing norm that if a home is marketed anywhere, it should concurrently be marketed everywhere. Critics say the system could unfairly push home sellers t

By Stefano Pozzebon, Avery Schmitz, Abigail Watts, Jhasua Razo, CNN

BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA (CNN) — It took 20 minutes for decades of family memories to be reduced to smoke and ash. Claudia Matamala, 34, broke down in tears recounting how flames engulfed her parents’ home in the port town of Lirquén in central Chile, where she had been sheltering after her own house was destroyed by another wildfire just five weeks earlier.

Matamala had smelled smoke in the air in the early evening; within five hours, flames had reached the house. The pace of destruction was terrifying. The fire consumed the home before sweeping down the hill to devastate the next neighborhood. “It all happened in minutes,” Matamala said.

On January 16, a series of devastating wildfires broke out across central Chile’s Concepción province, destroying more than 1,750 homes in a matter of hours, according to remote sensing data shared with CNN by satellite companies ICEYE and Vantor.

At least 21 people died and more than 300 were injured, according to Chilean authorities, who said flames devoured more than 74,000 acres in two days. Within hours, the government declared a “state of catastrophe” and called in international assistance to fight the blazes.

Catastrophic wildfires are not new for Chile, but this year’s stand out for how fast the flames spread, devouring an average of nearly 25 acres every minute. “From a relatively controlled situation, we moved to a much wider front of fire in just a few hours,” Javier Fuchslocher, the provincial presidential delegate of the Biobío region where the fires were concentrated told AFP at the time.

Chile’s inferno was fueled by extreme heat, with temperatures pushing above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and abnormally dry conditions — but it was also driven by human changes to the landscape. Unchecked urban expansion has pushed homes to the fringes of fire-prone woodlands, and the industrial forests planted by Chile’s timber industry have turned hillsides into tinderboxes.

CNN spoke with survivors of the blaze, firefighters, and experts to understand how the fires spread so rapidly, and also analyzed flight and remote sensing data to map aerial firefighting operations. It paints a picture of swift-moving fires that torched whole neighborhoods and proved exceptionally hard to contain.

What happened in Chile is not unique. As the climate crisis accelerates and urban populations boom, wildfires across the world are becoming larger, burning hotter, and harder to tackle, experts told CNN. The planet is entering a new era of fire, and it is not prepared.

First responders overwhelmed

Many of the survivors of January’s fires were shocked by the intensity and speed of the flames. They “really attacked many areas at the same time,” said Cristobal Rebolledo, a resident of Penco, a nearby city affected by the fires. “When (they) reached the first house on our street, we basically could only run out to try to save whatever we could.”

By the time the fires reached Concepción’s suburbs, in the early hours of January 18, they had surged over 35 times their footprint just hours earlier, according to CNN’s analysis of remote sensing data collected by NASA.

The intensity of the flames and the resulting smoke, compounded by the fact that the fire spread over the area mostly after dark, hampered the aerial firefighting strategy. Even with 37 aircraft — on top of ground resources — firefighters could not save large swaths of Penco and Lirquén, where Matamala and Rebolledo used to live. Entire neighborhoods were turned to ash.

CNN analyzed data from nearly 1,200 legs of firefighting flights across Concepción over two weeks when the fires peaked. They illustrate how waterbombers were unable to reach some of the most densely populated areas, such as Lirquén.

A firefighting pilot, who asked to

Por Chris Isidore, CNN

El vertiginoso costo del combustible para aviones debido a la guerra en Irán provocará tarifas aéreas significativamente más altas. Pero no espere que los precios de los boletos bajen una vez que el precio del combustible empiece a disminuir.

Las tarifas más altas están siendo impulsadas tanto por la fuerte demanda de viajes como por el costo del combustible. A pesar de los precios más elevados, los viajeros están reservando boletos en cifras récord en muchas aerolíneas. Así que, mientras los pasajeros sigan volando, es probable que las tarifas altas se mantengan, sin importar el costo del combustible.

“Cuanto más tiempo los consumidores paguen estos precios y las aerolíneas se acostumbren a este flujo de ingresos, más probable es que (se mantenga)”, dijo el CEO de United, Scott Kirby, durante la llamada de resultados del miércoles. Los pasajeros de la aerolínea ahora pagan, en promedio, un 20 % más por cada milla que vuelan en comparación con el año pasado.

Cuando se le preguntó sobre mantener tarifas más altas cuando los precios del combustible se normalicen, el CEO de American Airlines, Robert Isom, dijo que los clientes ya han estado dispuestos a pagar más por cosas como más espacio para las piernas o asientos más cerca de la parte delantera.

“Soy optimista sobre lo que eso significa para nuestro negocio”, dijo Isom a los analistas el jueves.

Dijo que las reservas de verano se han mantenido fuertes incluso cuando la aerolínea subió las tarifas.

“Creo que lo que estás viendo es el reconocimiento de que viajar sigue siendo una buena oferta”, dijo Isom.

El precio del combustible para aviones, que aproximadamente se ha duplicado desde el inicio del año, es un factor importante detrás de los aumentos generalizados de tarifas.

El combustible es el segundo mayor costo operativo para las aerolíneas, solo detrás de la mano de obra.

Las cuatro aerolíneas más grandes del país —United, American, Delta y Southwest— gastaron el año pasado, en promedio, un total combinado de US$ 100 millones al día en combustible. Y eso fue durante un período de costos relativamente bajos del petróleo y del combustible.

Hoy están pagando miles de millones más. Delta dijo que enfrentó US$ 2.000 millones en costos adicionales de combustible solo en el trimestre actual.

Las aerolíneas están trasladando parte del costo a los consumidores. Resultados recientes muestran que ya están cobrando a los pasajeros un 20 % más por cada milla que vuelan en comparación con hace un año, y se prevé que las tarifas suban aún más.

El director de operaciones de Southwest Airlines, Andrew Watterson, dijo a los inversionistas el jueves que ya ha habido cinco aumentos de tarifas en toda la industria en lo que va del año, y que vienen más. Y todas las aerolíneas dicen que solo han recuperado una parte de sus costos incrementados.

Pero las tarifas no se basan en el costo de operar un vuelo, dijo Zach Griff, autor del boletín sobre aerolíneas “From the Tray Table”.

En cambio, el precio se determina principalmente por la demanda: de una ruta en particular, la hora del día o de la semana y el nivel de competencia.

Por ejemplo, los vuelos de mitad de semana o los vuelos nocturnos tipo redeye suelen ser más baratos que los horarios de mayor demanda en la misma ruta, como un viernes por la tarde. Y los pasajeros a menudo pagan mucho menos por cada milla recorrida en vuelos largos y populares entre grandes ciudades, como Nueva York y Los Ángeles, que en rutas más cortas con menor demanda.

Las aerolíneas están recortando algunos de estos vuelos menos rentables, que se han convertido en pérdidas con el aumento de los precios del combustible. United, por ejemplo, ha reducido su programación previamente prevista en alrededor de un 5 % hasta septiembre

By Leigh Waldman, CNN

(CNN) — A decision whether to mandate air conditioning inside Texas prisons is in the hands of a federal judge, as advocacy organizations try to force the state to address what they allege are dangerous, deadly temperatures inmates endure.

For years leading up to the two-week trial in Austin, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice says it has made efforts to mitigate heat inside its prisons during the summer months. However, inmates’ advocates and lawyers say those efforts haven’t gone far enough: Temperatures can reach 149 degrees, they say, and the conditions amount to cruel and unusual punishment – violating inmates’ Eighth Amendment rights.

“There is a dangerous condition that everybody in the leadership knows about: It’s extreme heat inside the prison system,” Jeff Edwards, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs, told CNN. “What they’re doing is not solving it, it’s not mitigating it. It’s killing people.”

The plaintiffs – a group of advocacy organizations that represent inmates – are requesting air-conditioning be installed in every inmate housing area in every state-run prison. They claim more than 270 people died in Texas prisons between 2001 and 2019 due to heat exposure, citing a 2022 study by researchers at Brown and Harvard University, among other institutions, which found these deaths were “likely attributable to extreme heat.”

The state denied this allegation in pretrial court filings – though it has acknowledged heat-related deaths, albeit much fewer: A TDCJ spokesperson told CNN that between 1998 and 2012 there were 23 heat-related deaths.

“There’s people that have families in here that they’re trying to get back home to,” an inmate inside one partially air-conditioned prison told CNN. “They made simple mistakes; they don’t deserve this.”

TDCJ – which says it has made strides in addressing the problem in recent years – declined to comment on pending litigation. On its website the agency said, “Core to the mission of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is protecting the public, our employees, and the inmates in our custody.”

Amite Dominick, president of the Texas Prison Community Advocates, has been fighting for the better part of a decade to change what she describes as unsafe conditions inside prisons. She coauthored the 2022 study and another report by Texas A&M University’s Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center that highlighted the issue and concluded the TDCJ’s heat mitigation policies were insufficient.

“I didn’t think I’d be doing this job for 10 years,” said Dominick, who testified for the plaintiffs. “I really thought that by now we would have seen the humanity of it all, and the legislators would have already have funded the money for this.”

“It’s unfortunate that it has to come to a lawsuit where we’re, you know, spending millions of dollars once again, and we could have taken those same monies and just put air conditioning in those units,” she told CNN.

The Texas attorney general’s office, which represents TDCJ in the case, did not respond to multiple requests for comment or questions about the plaintiffs’ allegations.

In a preliminary injunction, Judge Robert Pitman stopped short of ordering a temporary air conditioning remedy. But he did warn TDCJ he “foresees Plaintiffs being entitled to permanent relief in the form of expeditious installation of permanent air conditioning in all TDCJ facilities.”

Pitman is expected to make his final ruling in the coming weeks.

A ‘five-alarm fire’

During the trial, medical experts testified about the impacts of extreme heat on the body. Dea