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Welcome back to cnn's continuing live coverage of hurricane irma. i'm victor black well. the back half continues to move north and hits this point. if you have been watching, you know sara sidner out on the east coast of florida on daytona beach has been holding on to a cement wall. what is it like now? >> reporter: we want to make clear this is not a place for people to come out. we did see some folks trying to come out here who were staying at our same hotel but it does blow you around. we're out here because it's our job and we want people to see and satisfy their curiosity if you will. thi...

>> okay. so your ground level may get water. that's like parking for a lot of people under the house. >> correct. >> he won't get water -- you won't get water in the first floor. so you are counting on the engineering of the stilts to be able to with stand however many hours of water and the soil and the concrete poured underneath to hold up the house for the most part. >> yes. correct. >> that's the gamble you're taking. >> yes. this house also has a cement wall all the way around it. >> you're not concerned with the wind. maybe you could lose some of the roof. >> the roof is a cement-poured ...

Once every nine months. >> that's right. >> how is that possible? >> well, and he dot make it clear, he praises the doctors and nurses at the v.a. who are trying to do their job so well. but he said the bureaucratic system there leaves him unable to get the appointments that he needs and all the paperwork. how many stories have we told here right here on this program about the bureaucracy there and how it's trying to run through a cement wall, trying to get the care that these veterans so deserve. five times for this nation, lost his brothers in war, comes back is experiencing post traumatic s...

Do with the deflated footballs. >> suspension after a fourth division player died from a head injury. the 21-year-old player was in a coma for 10 days after being pushed into a cement wall while fighting to gain possession of the ball. he died from his injuries yesterday. a tough story there. the nba playoffs to los angeles. the clippers looking to close the door early on the rockets in game six. not so fast. houston erases a 19-point deficit on the road in the second half. cory brewer scoring 15 of his 19d 19 points in the second quarter. the clippers are so cursed. in chicago, the bulls also...

That's when fistfights start sometimes. >> drivers and their crews go through painstaking efforts to set their cars up to handle slide jobs efficiently based on track conditions, and if any of their calculations are off, bad stuff happens. >> kevin did what we call a bicycle where the car actually hooked up and it tipped forward on two wheels. the car nosed over and he hooked the right front tire and that catapulted the car into a series of end-over-end flips. >> it's not uncommon for these cars to tip or even flip but bicycling is rare. >> the interesting thing about the crash is that when ke...