the hillsborough county jail consists of two sprawling facilities located four miles away from each other. combined they can house close to 5,000 inmates. most of the men and women here have recently been arrested and have not been convicted of a crime but are awaiting trial for settlement of their cases. some inmates have been convicted but are serving short sentences. usually less than two years. either way, time here is no vacation. >> jail is a pretty awful place. this is by no stretch of the mile some kind of spa. you're here for a reason and you have to make the best of a bad situation when you can. >> 31-year-old sheree dean is trying to do just that. dean is serving the last 30 days of a 6-month sentence for cocaine possession. she developed an addiction from working in strip clubs and prostitution. >> i started out being a topless stripper. i was like oh my god, i would never dance nude, i would never do that. then i started dancing nude and started meeting customers for money. it's like a whole lifestyle. i always worked at high-end clubs and dealt with high-end people who had a

but life of hillsborough county is a world of extremes.nother young man confined here faces the possibility of never seeing home again. >> just use this time as best i can and hope i get out. >> 19-year-old kendrick morris was charged with two counts of sexual battery with a deadly weapon. he is awaiting sentencing. prosecutors are looking for 120 years. >> a young lady was going to the community library, she was assaulted, drug behind the library, beaten within an inch of her life and brutally raped. >> after being taken into custody he was connected to another assault ten months earlier. >> it has been the assailant in the rape of an elderly daycare worker. >> he was also convicted of that crime and in jail awaiting sentencing. he still claims he's innocent. >> they say anything else, armed robbery or something like that, maybe i will say i'm capable of it but rape no, attacking a girl, no. hitting a girl, no. at the end of the day that's just not me. after looking back on the case and how we handled it in defense and how our closing sta

both have been serving time in the hillsborough county jail.ly had a court date and expected to be released on probation. >> i don't know if he's been released. i put him down for visitation. he told me to put him down for 2:00 today. i'm so excited. i'm excited. i'm so excited. i know i'll be so crushed if he doesn't come. i'll probably cry if he doesn't show up. just because i didn't know what happened. you know? >> waiting for you right now. i'm nervous for you. i'm excited. >> the visit is even more important than katie knows. chad plans on breaking some life altering news. >> i want to tell her face to face that i came up positive for hepatitis "b" and "c" and she needs to go to the clinic in jail. >> both know any number of factors could prevent their visit from happening today. >> it could mean he's not released yet or couldn't make it here. i mean, he doesn't have a car, so i mean, if he doesn't show up it's probably just he's not released. that's about all i can think of. he won't just blow me off. i know that much. >> as 2:00 finally

. >> so huge it doesn't take word of the tax returns to reach the top of the hillsborough county jail system. they don't know why he has the returns or that he is involved in anything wrongful, but the possibility of misconduct concerns them. >> one of the things that i did during the time i was assigned as secret service agent in tampa was investigate bank fraud and identity theft. i dealt with people who were ruined. it is the most underrated crime in this country. >> he arrives with that kind of information and that kind of personal data about what could potentially be dozen of innocent people. we take that very seriously. >> coming up -- >> all this is part mif paperwork. >> brian singleterry continues his disruptive behavior. >> relax. bring the tone down a little bit. relax. let me take a look. >>> and three former roommates implicate each other in a gruesome crime. >> they are saying i planned p tp i made everybody do it. pegg? no more points - coupons now. coupons? coupons. coupons? next, you convert coupons to tokens. tokens? then you trade tokens for credits. and then i get

this is the rain we are expecting tonight and then through the day tomorrow hillsborough county sheriff's office you can see where the blue -- tomorrow night. you can see where the rain is coming up into the mid-atlantic by tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening we could have between 1/2 inch of rain and maybe some isolated places could see more than an inch of rain before it's said and done. i think here in town and surrounding areas, probably like 1/2 inch to about three quarters of an inch with isolated areas maybe approaching an inch, okay. that is substantial. any thunder should stay to the south of us. clouds move in overnight tonight. the rain will hold off. 36 degrees. i think the rain will start to move in mid- to late morning. he we should be dry for the commute. rainy by noon and certainly rainy at 4:00, 5:00. we will make it to the upper 40s then fall back to the middle 40s. one day of rain. wednesday looks breezy and chilly. sunny thursday. friday good amounts of sunshine, temperatures around 50. through the weekend at this point, not looking too bad. >> i like the look of t

and this is hillsborough county's official holiday tree. >> i don't think i have heard of a holiday tree. i have always called it a christmas tree. >> reporter: they're both tall and bright with a star on top but the county's tinsel hangs on a decidedly labeled holiday true in the park. the former county commissioner the park is named for believes you should call it as he sees it, christmas. >> calling it a holiday and calling it a holiday tree, i think, relegates christmas to a commercial event instead of a religious event. >> reporter: with that, the annual debate, christmas versus the holidays, became county versus city, at least with respect to the trees. the county chose what they call an all-inclusive name. that is why james said happy holiday. >> i have friends from -- backgrounds and different religions and it's the spirit of the holidays i like to celebrate. >> i say happy holidays. >> reporter: why is that? >> we're of mixed faith. we have christian and jewish, so we celebrate all of the holidays. >> i'm the jewish part of the family and i say merry christmas. >> christmas symb

. >> reporter: it's not uncommon to see strawberry fields in eastern hillsborough county. are special and unique to the bay area. >> it has really good early yields. >> reporter: this strawberry breeder is talking about winter star strawberry, newest berry released by the university of florida's gulf coast research and education center. >> we are just really excited about the quality of the variety and what it can do for florida growers. >> reporter: it's the 12th different type of strawberry that the florida growing program has released. experts believe it will bring a sweeter, earlier blossoming fruit to florida's fields. >> a larger sized fruit. a little bit glossier at times. it has a sweeter, lower, acid flavor. that can be really good throughout the entire season. and has a little bit of a lighter color, you can see. and that -- it doesn't darken so much when it is in the clamshell. and look overripe. >> reporter: developing the berries can be a long, tedious process. as much as 30,000 seedlings have to be evaluated and meet different criteria. >> the consumer wants