that's it for us here at 5:00, we will be back here at 6:00. cbs evening news is up next. captioning sponsored by cbs >> ninan: tonight, dorian's devastation. the humanitarian crisis, now days after dorian made landfall in the bahamas. plus, the widespread destruction left behind, the catastrophic flooding in north carolina. also tonight, dire warning: iran tells europe hope for a nuclear deal is fading fast. what tehran is now doing to ramp up its nuclear weapons capabilities. the c.d.c. says stop vaping now. why federal health officials believe e-cigarettes may be linked to nearly half a dozen deaths. final flight: we'll take you to the desert boneyard where old planes touch down fo

eninto the deep: after a summer of shark bite scares a story about the softer side of these deep-sea predators. >> they love this place. >> reporter: this is, what, a shark dating bar? >> it is. it's a singles bar for sharks. this is the "cbs weekend news." >> ninan: good evening, i'm reena ninan. this is our western edition.

omar villafranca begins our coverage tonight from nags head, north carolina. >> reporter: on north carolina's outer banks, helicopters lifted people from their waterlogged homes. water, and other supplies to people cut off from the aninland.dorian pounded ocracok. despite a mandatory evacuation order for ocracoke island, an estimated 800 people were still in their homes inside when the category one storm slammed into the tiny barrier island. search-and-rescue teams went door to door, sometimes by boat, to check on residents looking for help. elsewhere in north carolina, dorian damaged parts of the main highway on the outer banks. state officials say it could flke weeks to fix. flooded roads and downed power lines also made getting around a problem.r y.

wind gusts over 70 miles per hour damaged trees and some homes, leaving residents to pick up after the storm. >> my neighbors weren't so lucky. i mean, he's got a tree over his driveway that has to be taken care of. >> reporter: here on the outer banks, targettg back toormal. there's still no swimming allowed, but people are coming back to the beaches. reena. >> ninan: omar, thank you. iall, the humanitarian crisis in the bahamas is growing increasingly dire almost a week after hurricane dorian made landfall. the death toll now stands at 43. it's expected to rise significantly. food, water, and other supplies are rapidly running out. more than 1,000 people evacuated from the caribbean nation arrived on a cruise ship in rtorida today. errol barnett reports on the recovery effort from grand bahama. mo reporter: it was a three-hour wait for fuel this morning at one of the few working gas stations on grand bahama island. >> this is what we've been doing since dorian left the bahamas. >> reporter: cbs news also witnessed long lines outside

freeport b and gcery thst e maclean's tomeorm ofelp. asleeroy werin ldinton asked if he could hitch a ride. his home, he tells us, is barely standing. how long do you think it will take to rebuild? r: a couple of years. >> reporter: a long time. >> yeah. >> reporter: in freetown, we saw emmes demolished. high rock, named for being the highest point on the island, all town services obliterated. hotside this cemetery, a casket lay in the caribbean sun. >> the whole town is wiped out. >> reporter: marcia russell-grant, who evacuated ahead of the storm, is trying to get home. what do you expect to see? >> i expect to see total devastation, but we see some walls of our house still up. so we're hoping that there's something we can salvage. >> reporter: we then came across hiis equinor oil complex, also battered by the hurricane.s the

structures, and on those structures, the domes were completely removed by hurricane dorian, oil all around us, and the smell is pungent. in a statement to cbs news, equinor oil says it is safeguarding the environment and veas not identified any oil on beaches and has not observed leakage of oil from its terminal to the sea." now, a security official here checked our press credentials and said we're free to walk around inside, but that we do so at our own risk. the widespread contamination is evident, and it's just one more aspect of recovery for the bahamian government to address. reena. >> ninan: errol barnett in grand bahama, thank you, errol. new provocations from iran today. a government spokesman revealed that iran can now enrich uranium to near-weapons-grade levels and launch advanced centrifuges. both actions are in violation of the nuclear deal. iran has also reportedly seized another ship in the strait of

ing its ew, accusing this asatellite images show a once-detained iranian oil tanker off the coast after iran assured it would not sail to tha democratic presidential candidates, on hand for the state's democratic convention. the goal: convince voters they are the only one who can beat trump in 2020. weijia jiang is at the white house. >> hello, new hampshire democrats! o reporter: one after another, presidential hopefuls attacked the man whose job they want. >> if donald hump-- donald trump is re-elected-- freudian slip. ( laughter ) ( applause ) if donald trump is re-elected, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation. >> reporter: new jersey senator cory booker said that strategy is not good enough. >> beating donald trump is the r.oor. it is not the ceiling. t reporter: the democratic , vyine efront-ru.ing voters ine

senator kamala harris defended n'r trailing position. >> and i wouldn't have won my first office if i listened to those polls. so ,the issue of polls for me, you know, depending on the poll, the sample size, the day of the toek-- i'm not riding polls. >> reporter: several candidates brought up passing tougher gun ngws, blaming president trump for failing to do it. >> and it is on donald trump that talks a good talk the minute after a tragedy, and then the moment he gets any push-back, he folds. >> reporter: the president is in yampaign mode, too, with a rally scheduled for monday in north carolina. he's putting the economy front and center, warning a democratic in could be costly. >> everything's going to be down ehe tubes. so whether you love me or hate

me, you've got to vote for me. >> reporter: president trump has less competition in his own party. republican leaders in south a get rid of their primary contest in 2020 and other states, including nevada and arizona, could follow suit. reena. >> ninan: weijia jiang at the white house. thank you, weijia. the centers for disease control is urging americans to stop vaping. the warning comes as the c.d.c. is investigating at least five reaths across five states. and many more are getting very sick. here's carter evans. >> i'm 18 years old. my lungs are like a r:-year-old's. >> reporter: adam hergendreder has been in an illinois hospital for a week, sick from vaping. >> they told me if we didn't bring him in when we brought him ed, his lungs would have collapsed, and he would have died. >> reporter: the centers for disease control has now identified 450 possible vaping-related illnesses in 33 states. >> vaping is the only common oactor in these injuries to date.

many individuals have sing common sutance in allca bu, some like most who fell ill, adam hergendreder says he used t.h.c. vapes, and also vaped nicotine in a separate product made by juul, the largest e-cigarette maker in the country. >> when i first started juuling, i didn't know what nicotine was, so i just thought it was just a vape juice. >> reporter: in a statement, juul lab said "the ingredients of our products do not include poh.c. or vitamin e compounds, like those found in t.h.c. ."oducts." hgardless, health officials warn, don't take chances. >> folks who really should

>> reporter: the food and drug administration is also investigating, and it has collected 120 samples. d's now testing to determine which chemical compound may be causing so many bad reactions. reena. >> ninan: carter, thank you. ns ons firsfull n.f.l. weekend. cbs sports has learned that wide receiver antonio brown ,in a surprising move, has signed a new contract with the new england patriots, just hours eater being released by the oakland raiders. brown, who had been feuding with lliders officials all summer, was dropped by the team today without ever playing a down for oakland. tso breaking tonight, a ttunning upset at the u.s. open. 19-year-old canadian bianca andreescu, who just last summer ranked outside the top 200, beat serena williams in straight sets, 6-3, 7-5. a victory for williams would have had her tied for most grand slam titles in women's history.

that will have to wait for another day. earlier, i spoke with u.s.t.a. boe.o. gordon smith about how ndnnis legends and newcomers are making big changes to the women's game. in a moment of defeat came a lesson in how to triumph. r iosfeated crowd favorite ff-year-old cori coco gauff, osaka invited her to join her in an on-court interview. something that doesn't typically happen in tennis. gauff refused at first, worried she would cry the entire time. osaka was overheard saying, "it would be better than crying in the shower later." >> i'm going to learn a lot from this match. and she's been so sweet to me, so thank you for this. i don't want people to think i'm taking this moment away from her. e,e really deserves it, so pneumonia. >> ninan: as new tennis stars emerge, they're setting the bar higher, a bar that was never low to begin, says gordon smith the c.e.o. of the united states tennis association. what do you think is really

behind women's tennis and its fuccess? >> tennis is one of the few ports that women get paid well in. we championed that. we've had equal pay at the u.s. open since 1973. >> game and first set, miss king. >> ninan: billie jean king did eomething incredibly powerful to be able to get wage equality in tennis. what did she do? >> look, she stood up for the n men and she said, "we're not going to play." but the u.s.t.a. actually insponded and starting paying equally, way back in 1973. you combine the fact that it's a sport women can excel in financially. it's a sport that is led by two great role models in venus and serena. n ninan: but for tennis to continue to be successful, smith says it's all about families. >> tennis is such an amazingly healthy game. we need to expose it to more parents and kids. >> ninan: and to get more kids involved, u.s.t.a. has started net generation. that's their version of little league. you can sign up online at netgeneration.usta.com.

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>> american 9466, you've got people up here watching, so make it a good one. cleared for takeoff.orhis wi bee hingthted morning lastime as it fliellnew co. we are the last people who will fly this md-80, and it's just us. captain dave clark was at the controls. after 53,563 flight hours and approximately 3.2 million wissengers since it first took off, with this final entry in the plane's log, clark closed the book on american's md-80 fleet, an old friend of his for 27 years. o> you know this day is coming for a while, but to realize this is your last takeoff, your last bnding, this is the last time you sign the log book, shut the engines down, it's a little surreal. that's it. >> reporter: one by one, the parade of planes, the last 26 of the airline's md-80s, landed in roswell, rolling to a stop side by side.

whdabu in retiring p litelly whd planesre t the dry air wardsust, bged to elvis.rivate jet th row after row, a sprawling testament to the planes of yesterday, so many ,you can see them from space. what do you see? ep i see dollars. >> reporter: dollars? >> yeah, i see dollars. you know, the airplanes aren't ffne. we can still salvage parts off of them. >> reporter: bryan hancock's company, cavu aerospace, buys old airliners. they sell the engines and strip the plane of in-demand parts. -etirement's not so great for the rest-- smashed into pieces and sold for scrap. but dave hall sees a certain beauty here. >> it's quiet. you just sort of hear time 'sssing these planes by. it's got this really eerie kind of feeling. it's a boneyard/graveyard. it's something romantic about it in the same sense.

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>> ninan: finally tonight, researchers are learning more tisearchers are learning more mout the critical role sharks play in maintaining the underwater ecosystem. some of the biggest questions igrround how they mate. in tonight's "eye on earth," mark phillips takes us for an up-close-and-personal encounter. >> reporter: something happens in the the shallow waters off the dry tortoga islands that happens nowhere else. every year like clockwork, sharks gather here for their tnual underwater mating dance. and the scientists gather as well, to catch them. >> they love this place. >> reporter: this is a, what, shark dating bar? >> it is, it's a singles bar for sharks. mexicbservet cah,ratt and nickd

ly be seen here. >> yeah, this is the only place in the world where you can study shark mating behavior on a reliable basis. >> reporter: they've developed a sly technique-- moving toward the sharks as they've got their minds on something else and netting them. ht's the kind of thing you better get right the first time. >> nice! >> reporter: these are nurse sharks, not the most fearsome species, but they can still take a chunk out of you when disturbed. and this is the definition of "disturbed." >> before we started, almost nothing was known about shark mating behavior. this particular species is a window into that world. erite sharks, blue sharks, hammerheads, all mate like this. >> reporter: and they're all threatened.y me caug diberely for food ine s of the world. of the food chain, the rest of the marine world is out of

whack. >> so, yes, sharks need on our help. epey need our research. >> reporter: technology is helping that research. wes and nick not only tag the sharks. they attach cameras and icstruments that track movement. the devices float to the surface after a few days, revealing whether the animal has found a partner. and if catching them is tricky, try letting them go. >> the trick is to get him out of here. >> reporter: anything i should be doing here? >> maybe stand back a little bit. >> reporter: there he goes! so it's back to the sharks single bar-- in this day and age, with selfies, of course. mark phillips, cbs news, in the dry tortugas. >> ninan: big nets and nerves of steel. well, that's the "cbs weekend news" for this saturday. i'm reena ninan later on cbs, "48 hours." the news continues now on our 24-hour digital network cbsn at cbsnews.com. i'm reena ninan in new york. for all of us at cbs news, thanks for joining us.

good night. live, from the cbs bay area studios. this is kpix5 news. >> i think it was a clash right from the start. >> now at 6:00, go down as the most famous raider never to play for the raider. just hours after the silver and black drop kicked antonio brown, he already has a new offer. >> the homeless moved into this popular east bay park and the park users stopped coming. now, a solution may be on the way. >> and we are on the fire watch. the new blaze forcing one community from their homes this evening. good evening, i'm juliette goodrich. >> i'm brian hackney. antonio brown is now a new england patriot signing with the super bowl champions hours after the raiders granted his request for a release.

he leaves oakland without playing a single down for the silver and black. katie is live. but first we begin with vern glenn. what an end to the story. >> here we go again with the raiders. star receiver antonio brown out. before he even played a down of football in any game. how does head coach john gruden recover from losing his best player before the season opener for the second straight year? remember kalil mack? he went to the bears. now, brown is a new england patriot. number 84 here was granted his release after asking south of oakland this morning on instagram. just this afternoon, he signed with the patriots. ab. already posted a picture of himself in a new england uniform. we checked. number 84 is available. brown's short time in the bay area was filled with drama.

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