can i just say diana nyad is amazing. for the fifth time trying to swim from cuba to florida without a shark cage and, guess what, she s almost done it. she is now just about five miles from shore. as nyad said so many times, it s never too late to achieve your dream. she s attempting her swim without a wet suit or flippers at the age of 64. john zu riarrella is in key wesd nyad is expected to swim on to shore very soon. she s already broke a record, though, right? yeah, she really has. certainly no one has gone as far as she has. when without being in a shark cage. when she does this, which we re saying when she does it, we re expecting she will. she actually will have done about 112 total miles to get
syria our biggest concern as julie correctly pointed out is the nuclear weapons that are processed by iran. it is a grand diversion with america that we are concentrating on the wrong enemy. we should be concentrating on the ultimate enemy to the united states and israel and that is iran. i agree. a lot going on. thank you both for joining us this oofrp and happy labor day. you too. thanks. this is exciting. unless maybe you are diana nya d who is paying the price for her swim without a shark cage. first person to do it 64 years old and she is traveling with a medical crew and strokes away from being the first person to swim from the cuban coast to i believe in co west. that s where we are now with our
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64-year-old diana nyad is closing in on her historic swim. she has been in the water, fighting against crushing exhaustion and the painful stings of jellyfish that doomed her previous attempts. nbc s kerry sanders is in florida for us, tracking her progression. inspirational, isn t it? reporter: you said 64 years old, imagine this, who s been able to make this swim without a shark cage, nobody. so she s not only doing this but at 64 years old. as you know, her biggest problem has been the jellyfish stings. the jellyfish stings have been her biggest problem. on the fifth time now. she started this more than 35 years ago. 28 years old when she first tried.
she can see key west from where she is now. that we believe, we re almost certain is her boats in the distance there. they have been getting closer and closer all morning. probably within two miles of key west. this is where she is expected to land and if she does, when she does now, we re presuming, could be within the next couple of hours. she will make history. the first person to ever make it across from havana, cuba to key west florida without the aid of a shark cage. she s been amazing. people are starting to gather on the beach. it s a holiday but there s a lot of people, everybody asking, is she still swimming. how close is she now. a lot of excitement being generated as diana nyad is set within the next couple of hours to make history. she was just talking to her crew a little while ago. she said she does have bad