from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, megan thompson. >> thompson: good evening and thank you for joining us. the 80-thousand residents of florida's southernmost point-- the keys-- were allowed to go home today. for the first time since forced evacuations before hurricane irma. police let cars with residential stickers pass through checkpoints on route 1, the main road through the keys. when irma made landfall here as a category four hurricane seven days ago, it damaged or destroyed 90% of the homes in the area. >> the keys are not what you left several days ago, when you evacuated. >> thompson: officials are warning residents to bring their own food and water and be prepared to camp out for weeks. >> bring your supplies, bring your medications. bring your water. bring your bug spray. bugs now are about to start coming out. mosquitoes, they are starting to come out. it is going to get worst in the next few days. >> thompson: today, sheriff's deputies went door to door encouraging thousands of residents of hernando county, north of tampa, to evacuate, due to the o

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, megan thompson. >> thompson: good evening and thanks for joining us. president trump met with his national security team this afternoon, saying the united states is weighing, in addition to military options, stopping all trade with any country that does business with north korea. this after north korea announced it had detonated a hydrogen bomb in its sixth and most powerful nuclear test yet, and its first since september of last year. asked by reporters today whether he might order an attack on north korea, mister trump replied: "we'll see." north korea called the nuclear test "a perfect success," and the underground explosion did register many times more powerful than its last one. just hours before the nuclear test, north korean state-run media released photos of dictator kim jong un inspecting what it said was a small hydrogen bomb that could be used as a warhead on a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile. north korea said the weapon tested today was an advanced hydrogen bomb designed for such a missile. there has

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, megan thompson. >> thompson: good evening and thank you for joining us. president trump's suggestion at a political rally friday night that pro football owners fire players who kneel during the national anthem, in protest of the treatment of african- americans by police, has ignited a storm of defiance involving three major sports. today, pro football was unified in pushing back. the first indication came when players and coaches from the jacksonville jaguars and baltimore ravens knelt and linked arms before their game today in london, england. jaguars' owner shad khan, who gave a million dollars to the trump inaugural committee, joined them. in chicago, the visiting pittsburgh steelers, except for one player who's a military veteran, opted to stay in the locker room during the anthem, leaving their sideline empty. at every game today, with the new york giants, the new orleans saints, the new england patriots, the buffalo bills, the tampa bay buccaneers, and other teams, players either knelt or linked arms on the sidelines du

newshour weekend's megan thompson has more. >> reporter: after pounding caribbean islands for days, hurricane irma made landfall shortly after 9:00 a.m. in the florida keys, as a category four hurricane with sustained winds of 130-miles-and-hour. 30,000 people heeded the call to evacuate the keys, but an unknown number remained, riding out the storm at home. the national hurricane center warned of life-threatening storm surges there that could reach 10 feet. miami was spared a direct hit, but irma drenched the city with rain, flooding parts of downtown. winds nearing 100-miles-and-hour caused high-rise construction cranes to collapse. miami-dade police warned, officers won't respond to emergency calls, because of the risk to their own safety. forecasters say irma is now tracking farther west than originally predicted, crawling up florida's gulf coast at about 8 miles an hour. brock long heads the federal emergency management agency. >> storm surge has the highest potential to kill the most amount of people and cause the most money damage. my biggest concern is when people fail to heed a warni

newshour weekend's megan thompson has more. >> reporter: hurricane irma is now blamed for more than 20 deaths across the caribbean. it made landfall overnight in cuba as a category 5 storm. 155 mile-an-hour winds battered the island's northern coast, and the storm surge reached 12 feet in some areas. in the small coastal town of caibarien, irma downed power lines, pounded buildings and filled streets with debris. today, france deployed more than 1,000 recovery workers to aid residents of the french caribbean island of st. barts and of st. maarten, which is controlled by france and the netherlands. irma caused more than $1 billion worth of property damage and destroyed 70% of the homes on st. maarten. following right behind irma is the category 4 hurricane, jose. the national hurricane center warned jose, with its 145 mile- an-hour winds, could make landfall on st. barts, st. maarten and other parts of the caribbean in the next 24 hours. heeding the warning, all 1,600 residents of the tiny, already battered island of barbuda evacuated today to nearby antigua. while hurricane irma was do

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