in rare instances it causes pneumon pneumonia, like what killed jim henceon. but it's led to the flesh-eating bacteria, she's one of several hundreds cases in the u.s. every year. experts say the bacteria affects everyone differently, depending on mr. immune system. kprpts say she most likely inhaled the bacteria. it seltsed in her body at the cite upon an injury on the back of her leg. >> it gets in the blood stream, finds this area of muscle injury and stops there, sets up shop and begins to cause serious infection. >> reporter: aimee copeland fell victim to a perfect storm of sirk, first the gash on her leg, then falling into the fedit river. >> that water clearly was the cause, the source. no doubt. >> the treatment coop sifts of large doses of antibiotics and surgery. about one in five cases, the disease is fatal. copeland is now showing signs of recovery, today asking for books and smiling. >> i believe we've had victory over death here. >> reporter: one friend has said the infection has stopped spreading and they're hoping it was caught in time. >>> com

that's the pneumonic. today we're having a lot of fun doing first-run apple brandy distillations. and this is one of our five copper stills. they orient themselves from my right to my left in order of size. the smallest one of the stills is about 62 gallons and the largest one is about 95 gallons. this is just the very top of the rather large semispherical top and then a conical shape still. the still itself is probably that big. it's probably 4 feet across inside. and then it runs all the way down to about here. for the base. so it's -- this is a 95 gallons in here, the size of the bathtub in volume. i've been coming here now for nine or ten years. and one of the things that i was just fascinated with is that the level of detail that the archaeologists went to in uncovering the site. and for me it was really fun because i'm not an archaeologist, i'm a chemical engineer and i make whiskey for a living. but it was fun because even uneducated me could stand and look at the archaeological site and say obviously the boiler went here, the fire boxes for the stills went there. this was