certainly that s a great question. i think right now, if you have been exposed to floodwaters, if you have wounds, you want to get those medically treated. that s how the flesh eating disease can happen. if you have symptoms of diarrhea, seek medical attention because you might need antibiotic therapy. then, also, you want to minimize your exposure to mosquitos because they are going to start ramping up in the coming days and weeks. minimizing expo sure to mosquitos is very, very important. if you have mold in your house or accumulate mold, do everything you can to do mold abbatement and get rid of it. that can be horrible. doctor, thank you so much for sharing helpful information with us, we appreciate it. you have harvey aid package. you have funding the government. raising the debt ceiling.
the substance came from and if it has any connection at all to last week s oil spill in santa barbara. joining me now, conservation biologist reese halter. good to see you. good morning. what s the likelihood that these goo tar balls are connected to santa barbara. not likely. it takes at least 30 days jose for the oil to turn into tar. this much we do know about this tar. first of all, 30 cubic yards or 11 pickup trucks and counting of toxicity. this toxicity carries potentially the vibrio bacteria that gives, if you re cut and get it on you, you can suffer from ceptasemia. this toxicity carries with it the flesh eating disease. so this is another example of what s going on in our oceans.
six defendants have been charged with third degree murder but four of those suspects charged this year alone. prosecutors say that most of the defendants end up pleading out of court to try to avoid a trial but they hope with the tough new penalties will at least make drug dealers think twice. erin? thanks very much, george. startling. still to come, we have photos of trayvon martin released today. and these are a game changer, possibly, for george zimmerman. we ll give you a chance to make your decision. and a teenage girl faces felony charges over a same sex relationship. is it because she s a lesbian or because the other girl was underage? we have an investigation. a miraculous story of recovery. amy copeland on the mend after life threatening flesh eating disease attacked her body. she s outfront tonight. before i couldn t do button a button but now that i can do those things, it s just a step in the right direction.
miraculous video. we re going to show it to you later in the program. plus, one of america s top investors, one of the richest men in the country, the man known as robin hood says mothers cannot be elite traders. and a teenager faces federal charges over an underaged lesbian relationship. intolerance or abuse? and a story we ve been following from the beginning, amy copeland s miraculous recovery. everything about her is miraculous from that flesh eating disease. she came outfront to show us this. so there i m bending my wrist backward and closed. bending my wrist forward and then there is also some different things i can do with the muscle signals to actually change the grip to do a pinch mode or some different finger configurations. [ female announcer ] from more efficient payments. to more efficient pick-ups. wireless is limitless.
out and put that car in park. talk about some scary moments. ooh, lucky lady. the victim of a rare flesh eating disease is home again. 24-year-old amy copeland lost both hands, her left leg, and right foot to the life threatening infection. spent more than three months in hospitals before returning to her parents home which donations have made wheelchair accessible. her father says her spirits are good. what an amazing recovery. lucky, lucky lady, again. great story. and here s a fish tale about the one that didn t get away. get it? okay. hawaii woman fought a 12-foot, half-ton marlin, for more than four hours before she and tournament teammates managed to reel that sucker in. look at that thing. the good news. the bad news, she missed out on thousands of dollars in prize money. the international game fish ing association rules say she needed to reel in the monster marlin by herself to get the cash. okay. that s right.