that s what i was thinking. covering the things that make the outdoors great. now, that s progressive. call or click today. all righty. time for one more thing. dana, you re up. i get to go first. okay. amazing story today, america s talking about war, there was actually somebody all on her own doing an amazing thing. this is diana nyad. she s 64 years old. she made her fifth and final attempt to swim the 103-mile route from havana to florida. she made it. she had three things to say in the end. you re never too old, never give up. and while it might look like a solo sport, it s a team sport. and she did it without a shark cage. and she got stung by a jelly fish in the mouth. so i have a cute video, maybe you ve seen this but if not you might enjoy it. little girl in atlanta zoo, her name is kyla, and she wants to play with the gorilla.
from cuba to the united states without a shark cage. mere first attempt was in 1978, but was unsuccessful. and four different times she was unsuccessful. but yesterday, after 52:50.18 of swimming the florida strait, it was all cheers for diana. all my life, i don t know where it came from, but i believed in dreaming big. i just it doesn t satisfy me to have small dreams. and i can t tell you what a big, big dream this is out here. i don t wake up every day attached to anything of a group wise i am. i don t wake up feeling like a woman. i don t wake up feeling like a gay woman. i don t wake up feeling like i m 64 years old. i just wake up and bound out and grasp the next day.
our second story. our second story. a rooird record-saiding swim with no shark cage. diana nyad stumbled to shore after a 103 mile swim from cuba to particular. the 64-year-old swimmer says she s dimed for decades about making the trip through those shark-infested waters. we should never ever give up. year never too old to chase your dream. it took her 53 hours and did it without flippers or a wet suit. she s the first person to do it without a cage. the cage obviously is what most people do to protect themselves from sharks. she was fearless. dr. sanjay gupta followed her. when she failed she didn t give up. she came back and did it again. this time, the magic type, how come?
good morning. i m diana perez. i m john muller. here are some of the headlines we are following on world news now this morning. the lobbying begins at the white house for a military striko on syria. the u.n. says the number of refugees has passed the 2 million mark. 5,000 syrians crossing the border daily to flee violence. we ll get the latest from washington and the mideast ahead. big clean-up under way in eastern japan after a string of tornados touchdown near tokyo. twisters injured 60 people, 100 homes damaged. endurance swimmer, diana nyad, recovering this morning after her historic 53-hour swim from cuba to key west. the first time a swimmer has the made the trip without a shark cage.
seems nothing could keep diana nyad from returning to the open waters. at age 64 she s determined to become the first in the world to swim from cuba to florida. last night she broke the record for distance swimming farther than anyone without a shark cage or protection from the elements. she s been swimming for more than 45 hours now and says this fifth attempt will be her last. there s a fine line between having the grace to see that things are bigger than you are and to let your ego go and there s another edge other that fine line where you don t want to ever, ever give up. and i m still at that place. reporter: here s what she s up against, a grueling 103-mile swim estimated to take 80 hours in shark invested waters between cuba and key west.