By Ben Church, CNN

(CNN) — It’s now just one month until the first game of this summer’s FIFA World Cup kicks off, and there is plenty to talk about already.

From diplomatic tensions to ticket pricing and travel costs, the tournament has been creating headlines before a ball has even been kicked, and that level of interest is only set to increase as we get closer to the opening game between Mexico and South Africa on June 11.

To help you make sense of everything that’s been happening both on and off the pitch, CNN Sports takes a look at the five things you need to know.

1. Ticket prices

This World Cup has already been no stranger to controversy, and perhaps the biggest so far is the cost associated with attending it.

Ticket prices for the matches have soared to new heights, deterring many fans from watching their teams play across North America.

The cheapest seats for the USA’s opening against Paraguay on June 12 are now costing over $1,000 each. Those prices soar even higher for the bigger matches, with tickets for the final now fetching up to $32,970.

Even President Donald Trump scoffed at some of the costs, telling the New York Post that “I wouldn’t pay it either, to be honest,” in reference to the four-figure price for USMNT tickets.

If you think those prices are already eye-watering enough, wait until you see the resale prices. FIFA has created a platform for ticket holders to resell seats for as much as people deem fit. The governing body doesn’t set the prices, but does take a 15% cut from both the buyer and seller.

These tickets are going for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars. One ticket holder for the final is even reselling his seat, which is right at the back of the stadium, for over $11 million.

And while no one is realistically expecting anyone to buy that, it points to just how inaccessible these prices are for most normal fans around the world.

FIFA has consistently defended its pricing structure, saying it offered tickets starting at $60 for every match, including the final, which were allocated specifically to supporters of qualified teams through their respective national associations.

It also says that, as a non-profit organization, revenue is invested straight back into the game of soccer.

“We have to look at the market. We are in a market in which entertainment is the most developed in the world, so we have to apply market rates,” FIFA president Gianni Infantino recently said at the Milken Institute Global Conference in California.

“In the US, it is permitted to resell tickets, as well, so if you were to sell tickets at the price which is too low, these tickets will be resold at a much higher price. And as a matter of fact, even though some people are saying that the ticket prices we have are high, they still end up on the resale market at an even higher price, more than double of our price.”

But when the cost of flights, traveling to games and hotels are all factored in, this year’s tournament is just not possible for so many people. And prices over the next month are only likely to get higher as demand increases.

2. Iran’s participation

Another major storyline in the buildup to this year’s World Cup has been the situation in Iran, and how it might impact the nation’s participation at the tournament.

In the immediate aftermath of the war beginning, there was rhetoric from Iran that there could be no way in which its players could safely travel and participate in the games.

The situation

By Zoe Sottile, CNN

(CNN) — Denver International Airport is conducting a safety analysis after a person who jumped over a fence into a runway was struck and killed by a plane during takeoff late Friday.

The fatal incident has drawn scrutiny to the airport’s security protocols – and highlighted the challenges of securing a facility twice the size of Manhattan.

The pedestrian, who has not been identified, was killed just two minutes after they jumped a perimeter fence and crossed a runway at the airport. The pilots of the Frontier Airlines Airbus, which was headed to Los Angeles, quickly aborted takeoff. Twelve people were injured during the incident.

Surveillance video taken before the collision shows a blurry figure – tiny in comparison to the jet and the expanse of land around them – standing on the runway.

Then the figure is overtaken by the plane, engulfed in flames.

“We’re stopping on the runway,” a pilot said, according to audio from ATC.com. “We just hit somebody. We have an engine fire.”

The airport said it would “perform an incident analysis and after action in the coming days which will include reviewing the ongoing investigation, including our perimeter security program.”

There are 36 miles of perimeter fence at the airport, according to its statement, and staff perform continuous inspections.

Denver International Airport is the nation’s third busiest by passengers, behind only Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth.

And it’s massive: At 53 square miles, the airport is larger than San Francisco, according to its website.

That makes securing its facilities a challenge, according to experts.

“The more expansive the land area of an airport, the more perimeter to defend, the more remote areas, and the more complex terrain, all of which provide more opportunities for unauthorized entry,” explained William Rankin, an adjunct professor at Florida Institute of Technology who researches airport management and safety.

Still, pedestrian incursions are extremely rare, Rankin said. Publicly available data shows there are just a handful of pedestrian incursions – between zero to five – each year on average, he said.

Fatal pedestrian-aircraft collisions like Friday night’s are even rarer, happening less than once per year on average, he said.

The incident “was an extremely rare event and should not make the public less confident in the security of the major US airports,” Rankin said.

Past security breaches

As rare as pedestrian incursions are, this isn’t the first time someone has breached a perimeter fence at the Denver airport.

Eight people – including both pedestrians and drivers – breached the fence between 2004 and 2015, an investigation by The Associated Press found.

At the time, an airport spokesperson said, “We believe many folks do not realize they are even on airport property — it looks like farmland and a breach may be miles and miles away from a runway or the terminal.”

The AP found 268 perimeter breaches across the country during the same period. They span from intentional stowaways to seemingly accidental trespassing. The Denver incidents included a drunk 28-year-old who drove through a perimeter fence and a man who climbed the fence and said he was on his way to work, according to the Denver Post.

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By Zoe Sottile, CNN

(CNN) — Denver International Airport is conducting a safety analysis after a person who jumped over a fence into a runway was struck and killed by a plane during takeoff late Friday.

The fatal incident has drawn scrutiny to the airport’s security protocols – and highlighted the challenges of securing a facility twice the size of Manhattan.

The pedestrian, who has not been identified, was killed just two minutes after they jumped a perimeter fence and crossed a runway at the airport. The pilots of the Frontier Airlines Airbus, which was headed to Los Angeles, quickly aborted takeoff. Twelve people were injured during the incident.

Surveillance video taken before the collision shows a blurry figure – tiny in comparison to the jet and the expanse of land around them – standing on the runway.

Then the figure is overtaken by the plane, engulfed in flames.

“We’re stopping on the runway,” a pilot said, according to audio from ATC.com. “We just hit somebody. We have an engine fire.”

The airport said it would “perform an incident analysis and after action in the coming days which will include reviewing the ongoing investigation, including our perimeter security program.”

There are 36 miles of perimeter fence at the airport, according to its statement, and staff perform continuous inspections.

Denver International Airport is the nation’s third busiest by passengers, behind only Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth.

And it’s massive: At 53 square miles, the airport is larger than San Francisco, according to its website.

That makes securing its facilities a challenge, according to experts.

“The more expansive the land area of an airport, the more perimeter to defend, the more remote areas, and the more complex terrain, all of which provide more opportunities for unauthorized entry,” explained William Rankin, an adjunct professor at Florida Institute of Technology who researches airport management and safety.

Still, pedestrian incursions are extremely rare, Rankin said. Publicly available data shows there are just a handful of pedestrian incursions – between zero to five – each year on average, he said.

Fatal pedestrian-aircraft collisions like Friday night’s are even rarer, happening less than once per year on average, he said.

The incident “was an extremely rare event and should not make the public less confident in the security of the major US airports,” Rankin said.

Past security breaches

As rare as pedestrian incursions are, this isn’t the first time someone has breached a perimeter fence at the Denver airport.

Eight people – including both pedestrians and drivers – breached the fence between 2004 and 2015, an investigation by The Associated Press found.

At the time, Read more

Por Chris Boyette, CNN

Pasajeros estadounidenses del crucero en el centro del brote de hantavirus, incluyendo al menos un caso presuntamente positivo, llegaron a Nebraska temprano este lunes para ser evaluados en una unidad de cuarentena altamente especializada antes de continuar finalmente hacia sus hogares, donde serán monitoreados durante semanas por posibles síntomas de infección.

El virus, típicamente asociado con roedores, podría haberse transmitido de persona a persona a bordo del crucero MV Hondius, según la Organización Mundial de la Salud. Desde el 11 de abril, tres personas del barco han fallecido y un pequeño grupo más está enfermo.

Después de anclar el domingo cerca de Tenerife, en las islas Canarias de España, decenas de pasajeros han sido evacuados. Hay 17 ciudadanos estadounidenses y un ciudadano británico que reside en Estados Unidos en el avión hacia Omaha, informó la ministra de Salud del Gobierno de España, Mónica García.

Esto es lo que sabemos sobre el viaje de regreso de los pasajeros estadounidenses a Estados Unidos y lo que sucederá una vez que estén en casa:

Uno de los estadounidenses ha dado positivo al virus y otro presenta síntomas leves, informó el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de EE.UU. el domingo por la noche. Ambos viajaban en unidades de biocontención en el avión “por precaución”, indicó el HHS en una publicación en X.

El pasajero que dio positivo no presenta síntomas, pero será llevado directamente a la unidad de biocontención en el Centro Médico de la Universidad de Nebraska en Omaha, informó la institución el domingo por la noche. Los demás pasajeros irán a la Unidad Nacional de Cuarentena del centro para su evaluación y monitoreo.

Personal de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. ha estado monitoreando a los pasajeros desde que desembarcaron en Tenerife, según un funcionario de los CDC.

CNN se ha puesto en contacto con el HHS para obtener más información sobre los pasajeros.

La instalación de Omaha es “la única unidad de cuarentena financiada federalmente en Estados Unidos, diseñada específicamente para alojar y monitorear de manera segura a personas que puedan haber estado expuestas a enfermedades infecciosas de alto riesgo”, según Nebraska Medicine.

Hay 20 habitaciones individuales de 28 metros cuadrados, equipadas con sistemas de presión negativa para contener posibles virus. Los médicos las describen como habitaciones de hotel, diseñadas con baños privados, equipo de ejercicio, servicio de comida y Wi-Fi para pacientes que deban permanecer largos periodos.

Un funcionario de los CDC dijo anteriormente que la agencia no estaba considerando esto como una cuarentena para los pasajeros del crucero, sino más bien como una breve visita para monitorear su salud.

Una vez en la instalación, se revisará a los pasajeros en busca de síntomas que indiquen las primeras etapas del hantavirus, incluyendo fiebre, dolores musculares y diarrea, dijo a CNN el rector interino del hospital, el Dr. H. Dele Davis.

La unidad de biocontención del sitio, que es donde serán llevados el paciente positivo y cualquier otra persona que pueda enfermarse, es una unidad especializada que anteriormente trató a pacientes durante el brote de ébola en 2014 y a algunos de los primeros pacientes de covid-19 del crucero Diamond Princess en 2020, según funcionarios de Nebraska Medicine.

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Por Aleena Fayaz, CNN

El secretario de Defensa, Pete Hegseth, pidió el domingo que se investigue al senador Mark Kelly por comentarios que hizo sobre los arsenales de armas de EE.UU., marcando la segunda vez que el jefe del Pentágono abre una revisión sobre el senador demócrata.

Hegseth criticó duramente al capitán retirado de la Marina y exastronauta por expresar su preocupación en “Face the Nation” de CBS sobre las reservas de armas de Estados Unidos en medio de la guerra con Irán, diciendo que Kelly estaba “parloteando en la televisión” sobre una sesión informativa clasificada del Pentágono.

“¿Violó su juramento… otra vez? El asesor legal del @DeptofWar lo revisará”, publicó Hegseth en redes sociales la tarde del domingo.

Kelly dijo más temprano ese domingo que, tras recibir informes del Pentágono sobre municiones, incluidos Tomahawks, ATACMS y rondas Patriot, le resultó “sorprendente lo profundo que hemos llegado en estas reservas”.

“Hemos gastado muchas municiones. Y eso significa que el pueblo estadounidense está menos seguro. Ya sea en un conflicto en el Pacífico occidental con China o en otra parte del mundo, las municiones están agotadas”, dijo Kelly, quien forma parte de los comités de Servicios Armados e Inteligencia del Senado, a Margaret Brennan de CBS News.

Kelly respondió a la publicación de Hegseth con un video de ambos en una reciente audiencia del Senado. “Tuvimos esta conversación en una audiencia pública hace una semana y usted dijo que tomaría ‘años’ reponer algunas de estas reservas. Eso no es información clasificada, es una cita suya”, publicó Kelly, agregando que la “guerra está teniendo un costo serio”.

CNN se ha puesto en contacto con la oficina de Kelly para obtener comentarios. El Pentágono, al ser consultado, remitió a CNN a la publicación de Hegseth.

El llamado de Hegseth para investigar por segunda vez al senador de Arizona se produce días después de que un tribunal federal de apelaciones pareciera dispuesto a rechazar el intento del secretario de Defensa de castigar a Kelly por su llamado a los miembros de las fuerzas armadas estadounidenses a rechazar órdenes ilegales.

El llamado, que se produjo en un video publicado en noviembre por Kelly y otros cinco demócratas con antecedentes en el servicio militar o de inteligencia, provocó la ira tanto de Hegseth como del presidente Donald Trump.

Kelly demandó a Hegseth en enero después de que el secretario de Defensa anunciara que el Pentágono emprendería acciones administrativas contra el senador de Arizona, incluyendo la reducción de su último rango militar —lo que disminuiría el pago que recibe como capitán retirado de la Marina— y la emisión de una carta de censura.

La mayoría de los jueces de un panel de tres miembros en el Tribunal de Apelaciones del Circuito de la ciudad de Washington de Estados Unidos la semana pasada desestimó los argumentos presentados por el Departamento de Justicia para revivir los planes de Hegseth, que fueron anulados a principios de este año por un juez federal que consideró que eran represalias inconstitucionales.

Los comentarios de Kelly sobre los arsenales de armas se producen más de dos meses después del inicio de la guerra de Estados Unidos con Irán. CNN informó previamente que las fuerzas armadas estadounidenses agotaron significativamente su reserva de misiles clave durante