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From CNN, I'm Ifeoma Dike with the five things you need to know for Wednesday, May 6th.

They want to make a deal. We've had very good talks over the last 24 hours, and it's very possible that we'll make a deal.

'That's President Donald Trump speaking to reporters on the status of negotiations to end the war in Iran. He said there's no deadline on when he expects to hear back from Tehran. Iran is still reviewing the latest proposal from the US, according to the country's foreign ministry spokesperson. A regional source familiar with the negotiations tells CNN both sides are moving closer to an agreement on a memo. The same source says the memo would trigger a 30-day period resolving nuclear demands, unfreezing Iranian assets and negotiating security in the Strait of Hormuz. This comes after the US suspended Project Freedom, a military operation to help guide commercial ships through the Strait, citing progress in peace talks. Iran's Revolutionary Guards Navy reacted by saying safe passage through the strait is possible under, quote, new procedures, but didn't specify what they were. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel targeted a top Hezbollah commander in the first strike in Beirut since the ceasefire in Lebanon. This, as the Trump administration is trying to arrange a meeting between Netanyahu and Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun. The Israeli PM says he expects to speak with President Trump later tonight.

More news coming up, including details on where the Hansa virus cruise ship is headed.

'Authorities found the body of a Special Forces veteran accused of shooting his wife in Tennessee. A county sheriff's office says 53-year-old Craig Berry appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities say Berry was wanted on suspicion of attempted murder after he attacked his wife at their home and shot her as she tried to drive off on the night of April 30th. His wife is said to be recovering from what were life-threatening injuries.

The cruise ship hit by hantavirus has left Cape Verde off the coast of Africa and is headed to Spain's Canary Islands. Before that, three people who had fallen ill were evacuated from the ship. Spain's Health Minister says the plan is for the ship to dock in the Canary Islands so that those on board can get off. Authorities are rushing to trace anyone who may have come into contact with the virus. So far, authorities report three confirmed and five suspected cases of the Hantavirus. CNN's Pau Mosquera is in Madrid.

'The president of the regional government, Fernando Clavijo, has claimed over the day they have never been informed or consulted regarding the decision to move the cruise ship to the Canary Islands and also adding that they believe that this decision does not follow any technical or health-related criteria. From the Spanish government's side, they have denied it and they said that they are carrying it out because the World Health Organization has officially requested do so and they will comply with the international law and show some humanitarian spirit. So the latest we know is that the MV Hondius has already set sail to the south of Tenerife and the Ministry of Health estimates that the duration of the journey will be around three days and 12 hours.

'Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are calling on Commerce Secretary Howard Letnick to resign at the end of his four-and-a-half-hour interview about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. There was bipartisan interest in having him testify after revelations that the men had been in contact beyond what Letnack had initially claimed. Here's House Oversight Republican Chair James Comer.

At the end of the day, I haven't seen wrongdoing in the email correspondence, but he wasn't 100% truthful with whether or not he had been on the island.

Despite resignation calls, the White House has so far expressed confidence in Lutnick.

Coming up, "The Late Show" in Obama's presidential library.

How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president?

Well you know, the bar has changed.

That's former President Barack Obama with CBS's Stephen Colbert in an interview recorded at his presidential library in Chicago, which will open in weeks. This was aired on the Late Show yesterday. The show will end later this month. Obama expressed his hopes for what the building will achieve for his legacy.

'I want them to put my presidency in context. I assume in my eulogy somewhere it'll be mentioned he was the first African-American president.

I will say something about that.

But what I want people to understand is that there was this extraordinary journey this country took to get to that point. And I was an episode in that.

Obama has increasingly expressed public and private fears about President Trump's targeting of longstanding American institutions. He remains one of the Democratic Party's most popular figures. He's at times engaged in political activities, including publicly supporting the Democratic Party's efforts to redraw California's congressional maps to counter Republican efforts to do the same in other states.

That's all for now. We're back tomorrow morning. Also, be sure to listen to our special episode of CNN 5 Things called Remembering head turner. We look back at the late CNN founder's life and legacy.