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By Lex Harvey, Deidre McPhillips, Emma Tucker, CNN

(CNN) — Dr. Stephen Kornfeld was taking the trip of a lifetime aboard a cruise sailing across the Atlantic Ocean when he was called on to care for other passengers who fell ill. Now, he’s the only MV Hondius passenger in a biocontainment unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center after initially testing positive for Andes hantavirus.

Before the world became aware of the hantavirus outbreak on board the Hondius, several people on the ship developed “a flu-like illness” in early April, the oncologist told CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” on Tuesday. Kornfeld also endured night sweat, chills and mild respiratory symptoms, as well as more than two weeks of severe fatigue, he said.

“At the time, it was felt like this is just some virus. And now, in retrospect, there is a question, could it have been hantavirus? But it’s just speculation. There’s no way to really know.”

Kornfeld says he initially tested “faintly positive” for hantavirus before arriving in Nebraska, but the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is awaiting the results of confirmatory tests, expected to come this week.

He warned that “what I hear from the experts who I’m seeing daily is that the lab tests may not be that straightforward to interpret, so it may never be known if that illness – which others also had – was hantavirus or the typical virus that circulates to a cruise boat.”

Kornfeld said his time caring for people who were ill, as well as time socializing with a passenger who later died from hantavirus, “certainly puts me at higher risk.”

Of life in the biocontainment unit, he said, “It’s a little weird being in here by myself, but the nurses come in, the doctors come in. I’m on WhatsApp all the time. It’s really amazing how quickly time flies.”

Most of the other American passengers who boarded the Hondius six weeks ago are in small, spartan rooms with beds and exercise equipment at the National Quarantine Unit in Omaha, facing what could be weeks of isolation.

A little over a week since the World Health Organization reported an outbreak of the rare hantavirus aboard the Hondius, operated by Oceanwide Expeditions, a global repatriation effort is still underway for the passengers and crew who were aboard the ship.

As of Tuesday morning, 122 people — 87 passengers and 35 crew members — had been evacuated, and most had returned to their home countries. Five Australians and one New Zealander are in the Netherlands and set to be repatriated later this week, according to authorities.

As for what he’s looking forward to most after his weeks of quarantine end, Rosmarin said, “it may sound cliche, but I cannot wait to give my fiance and my family and friends hugs, because that’s something that I just really miss. That first hug is going to feel like the best thing in the world.”

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GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT) Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara Goleta held its first Farmers Market on Tuesday afternoon at the Goleta Valley Center.

Shoppers lined up to buy tickets and then used those tickets to buy everything from donated produce to bouquets.

The girls urged people to buy products from their stands.

Many of them made eco-friendly crafts to sell as well.

Emme Levelevier-Joseph said they are learning to reuse and recycle.

Tiana Garcia called it a sustainability market.

They were delighted by the donated produce and the turnout.

Some of the produce was grown in local backyards.

The girls also learned about community service, commerce and entrepreneurship.

All the money raised goes back into Girls Inc. programs.

For more information visit https://girlsinc.org

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GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT) Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara Goleta held its first Farmers Market on Tuesday afternoon at the Goleta Valley Center.

Shoppers lined up to buy tickets and then used those tickets to buy everything from donated produce to bouquets.

The girls urged people to buy products from their stands.

Many of them made eco-friendly crafts to sell as well.

Emme Levelevier-Joseph said they are learning to reuse and recycle.

Tiana Garcia called it a sustainability market.

They were delighted by the donated produce and the turnout.

Some of the produce was grown in local backyards.

The girls also learned about community service, commerce and entrepreneurship.

All the money raised goes back into Girls Inc. programs.

For more information visit https://girlsinc.org

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Por Tal Shalev, CNN

A Israel le preocupa que el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, pueda alcanzar un acuerdo con Irán antes de abordar algunas de las cuestiones clave que llevaron a ambos países a iniciar la guerra, según han informado varias fuentes israelíes a CNN.

Un acuerdo que deje el programa nuclear de Teherán parcialmente intacto y que eluda cuestiones como los misiles balísticos y el apoyo a sus aliados regionales haría que Israel considere la guerra como incompleta, señalaron las fuentes.

“La principal inquietud es que Trump se canse de las conversaciones y cierre un acuerdo —cualquier acuerdo— con concesiones de último minuto”, dijo una fuente israelí. Aunque funcionarios estadounidenses han asegurado a Israel que se abordará el tema de las reservas de uranio altamente enriquecido de Irán, la fuente señaló que la aparente exclusión de los misiles balísticos y de la red de aliados regionales de Teherán “es un asunto importante”.

Durante la guerra, Irán lanzó más de 1.000 misiles balísticos contra Israel y países árabes del golfo Pérsico, además de oleadas de drones.

Los funcionarios señalaron que un acuerdo parcial que no aborde algunas de las principales capacidades militares de Irán, mientras reduce la presión económica sobre el país, también podría estabilizar al régimen y proporcionarle una nueva entrada de recursos financieros. Los temores evidencian una diferencia entre Trump, quien parece reacio a retomar la guerra, y el primer ministro de Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, quien recela de que el conflicto termine sin cumplir todos sus objetivos iniciales.

Una portavoz de la Casa Blanca dijo que Irán “sabe perfectamente que su realidad actual no es sostenible” e insistió en que Trump “tiene todas las cartas” en las negociaciones.

“Sus misiles balísticos están destruidos, sus instalaciones de producción desmanteladas, su marina hundida y sus aliados debilitados”, dijo Olivia Wales en un comunicado enviado a CNN. “Ahora están siendo estrangulados económicamente por la Operación Furia Económica y perdiendo US$ 500 millones al día gracias al exitoso bloqueo de los puertos iraníes por parte de las Fuerzas Armadas de Estados Unidos”.

Un acuerdo entre Estados Unidos e Irán para poner fin a la guerra está lejos de ser seguro, ya que persisten diferencias importantes entre ambas partes sobre la reapertura del estrecho de Ormuz y el futuro del programa nuclear de Teherán. Mientras tanto, Israel se prepara para la posibilidad de que los combates se reanuden. Aun así, el Gobierno de Trump ha seguido impulsando una vía diplomática, aparentemente sin intención de reiniciar un conflicto que ha disparado los precios de la gasolina en Estados Unidos.

Al comienzo de la guerra, Trump sugirió que Estados Unidos buscaba destruir el programa de misiles balísticos de Irán, poner fin a su apoyo a aliados regionales y cerrar sus instalaciones nucleares para impedir que desarrolle una bomba. Pero, 10 semanas después, las negociaciones se han concentrado en el uranio —específicamente en su enriquecimiento a niveles aptos para armas— y en la reapertura del estrecho de Ormuz.

La reducción de objetivos también se ha reflejado en las declaraciones públicas del propio Netanyahu. En un discurso pronunciado en febrero en Jerusalén, antes de la guerra con Irán, presentó cinco condiciones para un acuerdo aceptable: eliminación de todo el uranio enriquecido, desmantelamiento de la capacidad de enriquecimiento, control de los misiles balísticos, desmantelamiento de la red regional de aliados de Irán e inspecciones nucleares estrictas.

Para la semana pasada, en un mensaje en video previo a una reunión del gabinete de seguridad israelí, redujo esa lista a un solo punto. “El objetivo más importante es la eliminación del material enriquecido de Irán —todo el material enriquecido— y el desmantelamiento de la capacidad de enriquecimiento iraní”, dijo

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN

(CNN) — Immigration official David Venturella is expected to serve as the next acting ICE director, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson.

The former private prison firm executive will assume leadership of the agency as the Trump administration tries to take a different approach to its immigration crackdown following a turbulent year. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has said he wants agents to take a “quiet” approach while remaining aggressive on arrests.

Venturella will take over the role from acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement head Todd Lyons, whose last day is set for May 31. The agency has been without a Senate-confirmed leader since the Obama administration.

Lyons, a veteran of the federal agency who was tasked with overseeing the Trump administration’s mass deportation plan, faced immense scrutiny as the agency ramped up arrests last year and on the heels of the shootings of two US citizens by federal agents in January.

The New York Times first reported on Venturella’s expected elevation.

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