their goals, no matter what their circumstances. and the baseball coach at wake forest university has had his share of trying times. he survived hurricane katrina. now he's made a very unselfish sacrifice for one of his players. his story from our own david mattingly. >> how you feeling right now? >> i feel pretty good. my energy kind of comes and goes. >> he's a little thinner, walks a little slower, but wake forest baseball coach tom walter says donating a kidney to an ailing player isn't the toughest thing he's ever had to do. which is easier? recovering from a hurricane or recovering from a kidney transplant? >> oh, recovering from a kidney transplant, without question. >> reporter: almost six years before making headlines going above and beyond for one of his players, walter had to fight for his entire team at the university of new orleans after hurricane katrina. >> we were trying to search for people that we knew. >> reporter: you didn't even know if everybody was alive? >> yeah, the phones, definitely,