in the meantime, let's go back to macko island, florida. nbc correspondent kerry sanders is there. kerry, we just saw you and a team of people uplifting a dolphin. you can update us? >> reporter: well, we're all strangers. there's a gentleman who is on vacation whose english isn't bad but from another country. he saw the dolphin. you saw us together putting our arms underneath. helping us. heavy dolphin. >> very dolphin. >> reporter: getting him out of the water, taking him out what were you thinking and how do you feel now where it appears the dolphin has made it out? >> he was riding a wave but surfing hopefully, he can get out. >> reporter: thank you very much. we'll continue to watch the beach here, willie, thus far, one baby, a large one, a mother and a baby. back in the gulf of mexico. >> kerry, well done by you and all of those people on the beach. when we left you last. you were with the young dolphin. the baby dolphin that you were fighting to get in the surf. how did you end up getting him or her out there? >> reporter: last indications are, i took him out all the way up