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Stuck to a face. his son brice shot this video has his father made his way to the car. >> i see this little hand come out of the window and i'm like oh my god. that's not what you want to see. so he's waving and that means, you know, you got to go get him. >> i couldn't stand up. the current was too strong there that would have swept me away. tom hardly could stand on his own feet, now he had to drag me, too. >> reporter: tom hugged george from the back. george hugged his yorkie. at web point george started to float away and tom grabbed him but couldn't make the last 50 yards. it was his wife ...

>> reporter: certainly is. extraordinary strength and courage on the part of the family and speaking of extraordinary, george is 86 and was driving from his home in ottawa, canada to his condo in florida when he ran into trouble. we wanted to talk to him tonight but he was rested up and back on the road today in a rental car headed to florida. i'm honored to talk to tom, julie and brice hall. thank you for being with us. i was so moved by what you-all did and where do you find the strength to carry george and his dog through that flood water? >> anderson, i don't know how to answer that questi...

The vehicle i had to get in the vehicle to get him out of the vehicle, he was very calm but he was almost, he had been in the water for two or three hours, so he was focused on the dog and getting the dog safe and i was focused on trying to keep him calm and get away from the car and get back to the safest spot i could get to, which is through a lot of debris and through a big wave and i just wanted to go one step at a time. when i got him out of the car and onto the road, it was a moment where we didn't know how far we could go and we just had to kind of regroup and pray and keep moving forwa...

Got out to george, it was really just a situation where i had to go to george and we tried many different methods to get to george and we finally got to george. time was going by pretty quickly, and the situation was just getting worse and as far as strength to get back, i didn't have another option. i mean, it was pretty dicey there for the entire situation. >> yeah, george -- >> i don't know where i got that. i've been thinking about it. >> george yesterday said he looked in your eyes and he could tell you were tired and exhausted by the time you got to him. i hate to ask you this, tom, but ...