Help Identify PLEASE

Taylor is partially correct. What you have is actually a newt. Newts are primarily aquatic amphibians and as with most amphibians at some point in their life cycle, they change or morph into something totaly different.
In the case of the eastern newt (and I'm not all together up to date on the how's, where's, when, and why's of newts) at some point in it's life cycle it crawls from it's pond or watery home and transforms from a green spotted newt into what you have here, which is known in this form as a "Red Eft". Eventually what will happen is ,again what Taylor said, it will return to it's original newt form and crawl back into the water.

The life cycle of the eastern newt:egg-tad-larval-eft-adult newt. The eft stage of the animals life is spent mostly on the ground only returning to the water at adulthood, after about 1 year. so i'm told