less than ten miles ago, that s the last report we ve gotten, it s gotten a little more difficult for her what the folks on her team are telling us, making frequent stops now, swallowing salt water. she s three miles out the reef, and then seven more miles to key west. clearly the last leg is going to have her toughest. seems nothing could keep diana nyad from returning to the water. he s determined to become the first in the world to swim from cuba to florida. last night she broke the word 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
saltwater and that adds to dehydration, making fatigue more complicated. her team is confident. they believe on this fifth attempt, after so many years, richard, she s going to make it. a lot of people hoping. they ve been tweeting as well her location. do we know how close she is? i think it s about five miles on the last tweet. yeah, it s a modern day version. she started this some years ago, there were no tweets and it was hard to make a satellite phone call. now she s got completion connection. she is doing what nobody else has done. an australian swimmer was able to make this swim inside a shark tank. there was some controversy because they said that shark tank created sort of a protection and gave her some momentum. here, she s just out there. there s a boat alongside her and it has a pull out with something dangling in the water so she can keep her focus, so she can do a relative straight line.
the key. there you go. thanks. coming up next on new day, endurance swimmer diana nyad just miles from a goal she s been chasing for 35 years completing the epic swim from cue a ba to florida without a shark cabling. it s her fifth attempt. we re going to have a live report. meet who may be the luckiest driver of the world. a landslide dumps a huge boulder into the road. just one more rotation and this would have been a very different story. we ll show it to you. did you know, your eyes can lose vital nutrients as you age? [ male announcer ] that s why there s ocuvite to help replenish key eye nutrients. ocuvite has a unique formula not found in your multivitamin to help protect your eye health. ocuvite. help protect your eye health.
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in afghanistan when his unit walked into a deadly ambush. in a ferocious fire fight that raged on for six hours, dakota charged head on into enemy fire and saved the lives of 13 fellow marines. i was going to keep fighting. i wasn t going to lay down and let them win. reporter: though wounded dakota drove on. by all accounts he was so committed to save his battle buddies under heavy fire that he had to disobey orders to do it. with no regard for his own life, he repeatedly ran straight into the kill zone in a frantic search. on his fifth attempt, a grim discovery. they were all killed and i found them all laying in a ditch. weapons had been stripped and radios had been stripped. reporter: dakota still wears the name of all four, but he s convinced they didn t have to die.