the theo lacy jail is the largest of five jail facilities in the orange county system. it sits on 11 acres and has a capacity of more than 3,000 inmates. >> let's go. hands behind your back. back row go to the house. >> marc gonzales is one of them, and except for his jail-issued t-shirt and scrubs, he could easily be mistaken for any other fun-loving oc teenager. >> i love surfing. i love the ocean. it's the best. the promised land here. nothing could go wrong except for robbing a weed store and getting arrested. my mom is in a lot of shock right now. it's the first offense. my baby is robbing weed stores? what does he need that for? >> unlike most inmates in the orange county jail system who have not been convicted but are awaiting trial, gonzales pled guilty to robbery and received a one-year sentence. with good behavior he could be out in nine months, and if his family gets its way back in minnesota. >> i have a bunch of newspapers under my bed because my mom sent me a subscription because i wanted to stay updated with what was going on in minnesota, concert-wise an

we're calling it the bar stool musical. >> an orange county inmate with hollywood dreams. and more on the murder that sent shock waves through the jail. >> i grabbed him, started dragging him out. he said, no, he's not going anywhere. [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ] [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. [ m'm... ] great taste. [ tapping ] sounds good. campbell's healthy request. m'm! m'm! good.® ♪ o beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain ♪ ♪ for purple mountains ma jesty above the fruited plain ♪ ♪ america america god shed his grace on thee ♪ ♪ then crowned thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea ♪ [ applause ] >>> when it comes to beating boredom in the orange county jail, donald stokes likes to sing, and patriotic classics seem not to bother anyone. >> as always, portions brought to you in part by the orange county department of corrections, inviting you. come on vacation, sta

>>> orange county, california, ♪ >>> orange county, california, is traditionally been known for its conservativealues, spectacular coastlines, and tourist attractions. reality television has also contributed to the county's image. but it is far more complex than any of that. >> well, it is probably not the real housewives of orange county. >> few people know that better than orange county sheriff sandra hutchins. among other things, she runs orange county's other gated community. the orange county jail. >> it is dynamic. every day is a bit different. so you constantly have to be re-evaluating that and the folks work in the housing areas are very astute at identifying problems early on and that's the key. you're dealing with a population that doesn't want to be there, they're not necessarily there with people they like, they're probably facing some very challenging times in their lives. >> the greatest challenge for many inmates in the orange county jail is uncertainty. unlike prison inmates, who have already been convicted and sentenced for crimes they have committed, most jail inmates stand cha

people.     >> the theo lacy jail is the largest of the five facilities that make up the orange countyalifornia jail system. but the system is three piles away from the central complex. central is three facilities in one. there is the entake center where new arrivals are pros sesd t. county's women's facility is located here as well. but the largest section of central is reserved for high security inmates. jeremy bowles has been here for the past two years facing an array of serious charges. >> when it comes to crimes, i don't have boundries. not hurting pregnant women or kids, i'm up for all. >> have you seen a lot of people die? >> yes, na i can, yeah. >> that comes with the gang. >> narrator: bowles has a long criminal and gang history and has served sentences in the state prison and orange county jail. two years ago, he was a free man for 16 days. an eventful 16 days. >> i went to the beach for the first time in my lie. that was about the only thing positive out there. >> narrator: bowles spent the rest of the time on a crime spree that resulted in his latest arrest t. latest is mu

not the most elaborate meal in orange county but at least it's healthy, she says, and enough >> wooduffne, we have more about the ties between hunger, stress and weight gain, and a slide show of the other top counties in the u.s. for childhood hunger. that's on our health page. our next segment examines new research that's drawing attention for its findings about economic opportunity in america. jeffrey brown picks it up from here. >> is it still possible to climb to the pop top in america. in a paper released this week a economists found the prospects for upward mobile, the american dream haven't changed in the last several decades. the ability to move up in the income ladder hasn't worserned but it also hasn't improved. raj chetty one of the authors, is professor of economics at harvard university and he joins me now. well, thanks for joining us. it might be hellful first to define what you mean by upward mobility? >> sure. what we mean by upward mobility in this study is a child's chances of moving up in the income distribution. one way to measure that is the chance that a child say

. >> during our extended stay shoot at the orange county jail, we met more than one inmate who provoked that question, including a marine who valued strength above most other qualities. >> i grew up in strong island new york. that's the name we call long island. i was also going to get strong island on my back. i decided to switch it up and just get strong land. my kind of original twist to it. we breed strong men in long island, pretty much. and everywhere we go, pretty much let everybody know we're from long island, you know what i mean? >> even though christian carney was facing the most serious of charges, he still approached his workout routine with all the discipline of the marine he once was. while we have witnessed many in-cell workouts before, it was what carney did afterwards that caught our attention. >> question. you're flexing. why are you flexing? >> every time i work out a specific muscle group, i'll flex it immediately after. it's called iso tension. everything i've learned, i've learned from arnold schwarzenegger, his books. he was very big in body on flexing. he's a ch

of a young man's first day in jail. >> i'm in the orange county jail. i'm like in a room with no windows, no nothing. nobody -- i don't know what's going on. i don't know. >> when we met 20-year-old richard ruiz, he had already completed the booking process and his first court arraignment and was now engaged in another jailhouse ritual, the first call home. >> so i'm just sitting in a room. i don't know if it's light or daylight. i lose track of time. i get woken up by all of the slamming doors and stuff. like i don't know what's going on in here. i skip all meals because i don't want to eat. >> ruiz had been arrested 48 hours earlier for the first time in his life, charged with intent to sell narcotics. he hoped his father would be able and willing to bail him out. >> it's $2500. 10% of $25,000 bail. thank you, dad. all right. yep. i love you. bye. he doesn't deserve a phone call from here. but it's all my fault that i'm here. it's no one's fault but myself. >> there's a term that people use called a fish and basically if you're a new booking and you'v

the farm is a operated and a orange county operation. we visited the farm and food lab which is an agricultural garden that offers themed planters with fruits and vegetables and a pizza and spaghetti garden where they look. and other things fruit sallied garden and the lab was an amazing exhibit welcoming both students and kids but people of all ages. it was a reminder of how much potential we have in the city and our golden gate park is off to a good start with hannah's leadership i'm excited about the prospect of becoming an even more significant player in the urban agricultural movement. we had a number of retirees in the department i don't know if any one of them are here but they all made incredible contributions i want to recognize many folks john and a truck driver and a crafts instructor steve parks and carla a recreation supervisor and romo washington and neil mar are both gardeners. i want to graduate them on their incredible careers. i hope they don't learn from commissioner president buell they won't learn much. i want to rec

and poverty. >> orange county is basically the tale of two cities.newport beach, is the richest city in the nation. and then 17 miles away we have one of the most densely populated and poorest cities in the nation. >> wooduff: and it's friday. mark sds

. >> we met miramontes at the orange county jail. a member of a los angeles street gang and a meth addict. it seemed out of sorts with the young man who enjoyed reading novels and writing poetry. >> i like to read a lot. i like nicolas sparks. "walk to remember." "notebook." >> oh, so like romantics? >> oh, yeah, i'm a sucker for that. >> even cry when you read the sad part? >> yeah. most of the guys don't want to admit that because, hey, we're in jail. you know. but i don't care. >> but miramontes was facing the possibility of a lifetime in prison. >> been almost two years. my charges are special circumstance murder. big case. big case. >> miramontes had entered a not guilty plea and was still awaiting trial when we met him. the night of the murder, he says he was visiting friends in an orange county gang and that they were all drinking and high on drugs. while driving around their neighborhood, his friend stopped to confront a 19-year-old man who had allegedly flashed a rival gang sign. >> what ended up happening was the orange cou

. >>> you may know him as the rough and tumble patriarch of the orange county choppers family.probably don't know is he's also a recovering addict. >> reporter: grinding, blowing things up and building bikes, that's what paul tuttle senior does best. but there was a time that his future didn't seem so bright. >> kind of started early drinking and getting high. back then you think that stuff is going to go away as you get older. it gets progressively worse. >> reporter: as a young guy, he and his buddies hit the sauce early and often. >> i could drink a quart of whiskey at lunchtime and then go back to work. >> after years of giving everything to alcohol, he realized it all came down to a simple choice. live or die. >> i was pretty fortunate that i was able to get a 12-step program. i went nine years straight and i was afraid to miss a meeting. >> reporter: he's now been sober for 29 years and continues to share his story. >> after a couple years being myself, everybody knows that how [ bleep ] crazy i am. it's no secret. it's kind of like i was looking at if i can get sober, an

begin where the breaking news out of california on a case we've been keeping a close eye on an orange county jury has found two fullerton police officers not guilty of killing kelly thomas a schizo frantic homeless man in two thousand and eleven the incident was captured on surveillance video. was here you can see and hear kelly's screaming in pain and pleading for officers to stop as he's being tate's this photograph shows what kelly looked like after the beating five days after the incident he died these are the two police officers charged in this case coming up manwell ramos and jason ellie were charged with beating kelly with a baton and tasing him unconscious ramos was charged with second degree murder both officers were charged with in voluntary manslaughter for the latest on this case artie's ramon glendower joins us now. so what led to the jury to find these two officers not guilty. well it took less than two days of deliberations for the men and four women of the jury to acquit manuel rameau's agent and jason cinelli of the killing of kelly thomas according to the prosecutor after t

the woman in orange county was only 28. late to get the flu shot. >> the best thing is to get vaccinated. people know people who have been hospital odd and we had a death in contra costa and the best protection is this flu vaccine. >> unlike in the past years there is no short average. the vaccine was scarce in the 2009/2010 season and 657 in california died from swine flu. doctors remind people to wash your hands frequently. that stops the spread of the flu and other diseases including the cold. >>> this remain organization much of the country is dealing with the effects of the polar vortex with the cold arctic air put half of the issue in a deep freeze. in atlanta crews are dealing with a big mess after freezing temperatures caused a broken pipeline to burst with water shooting up to 80' in the air for six hours and power lines are encased in ice and the wait -- weight is putting them in danger of snapping. at least 21 degrees are being blamed on bitter cold weather including seven in illinois and six in neighboring india

there are a number of companies it's not just the ones we've announced there's hospital xhupsz and orange countyses. we want them to make sure they're talking with us about that information we need to improve the symptom for everyone. you mean the goal should be the same. we're trying to get people to work that's the practical part trying to make sure there isn't cross purposes on issues of safety for our muni system. i think we're going to be better at it and i think with this newly found few minutes ago and good collaboration we'll get better and i know there's a lot of questions about this and we'll be glad to answer them but we'll be glad to talk about this (clapping.) thank you, mr. mayor. i didn't mention this but you're in the muni line management system. the he men and women who work here are charged with making sure the muni vehicles can get through the students of san francisco as efficiently as possible that's part of what we need to do to advance the policy this was adapted by the board of supervisors back in 1973 that transit policy is placed in the a charter and it's the charge of

today the jury in orange county found the officers not guilty. brian rooney in burbank california with more. brian. >> john, the man's name was kelly thomas, 37 years old, schizophrenic man well-known to the fullerton police. he got in a confrontation and ended up dying five days later. today in court his family was absolutely shocked by the verdict. they were hugging each other there was videotape, and we'll get to that later. the family really thought they had a case here and the police would be convicted. kelly thomas's mother talked to reporters afterwards. >> they got away with murdering my son. it's just not fair. so i guess -- i guess it's legal to go out and kill now. >> there were 34 minutes of surveillance video of this incident. and the case came down to an argument of what each side saw in that video. the police doing their job properly. subduing the man, who was apparently uncontrollable that night. or as the defense, as the prosecution said, that they were beating him up. and using expensiv excessive fo. both of them were acquitted

constantly give away all seven you will be happy that precondition is generosity chairman of the orange county republican party for 20 years the most generous man i had ever met with every single individual i tried to explain this to brian lamb who may be the country's greatest interview are about the happiest life of less you live in orange county you don't know how ubiquitous. he was out every night hoping every candidate in every forum to find jobs for every young person while not collected musical instruments for the new be freed nicaraguans while praising the three children he is extraordinarily generous. i was explaining this to brian if i refers it to be aired without generosity you have nothing. it is sort of that way. with the encouragement you would not believe how often i have not been able to remember that. i feel okay for governor perry said we all have the braintrees i'd do it every time. >> tell me the seven guests. >> acreage rented but heroism is the other one so i slide by double the calls me on its rival illustrate briefly energy if you ever listen to my radio show you know,

she was arrested in orange county a year and a half ago, charged with methamphetamine possession, being under the influence and child endangerment. part of a public melt down that included a violent confrontation with her boyfriend. after a year in rehab she reconciled with her husband and is looking forward know. chapter in her life. >> flu has taken two more lives in the bay area, bringing the number of deaths to 23. the latest victims are two south bay women ages 52 and 62. the death toll going up state wide latest number from the state from january 11th shows flu killed 45 people in california. 38 of those fatalities came in just one week. infants. cdc has information on where you can get a flu shot. we've posted a link on our web site. >> spare the air alert issued for tomorrow. here is a look at the haze east. air quality officials say pollution is building up to unhealthy levels. that is why another spare the air alert has been called. smoke poured into the sky for hours. here is what it looked like, a ferocious fire, flames billowing out of the building. >> firefighters poured a

arbitrarily change changes if we have 5 thursdays in a month and i support commissioner antoninis orange county's we have 4 to attend to irrespective if they fall on the first or fourth or fifth thursday of most. the fifth thursday meetings we could still take care of matters. i'll look to the city attorney. president fong. the charter doesn't set forth any minimum of number of meetings the commission has to have. the commission rules and regulations in section 1 under regular meetings states that regular meetings of commission shall be open in public and held each thursday of each month unless there's 5 thursdays. i will leave it to the commission but it sounds as to each thursday the commission needs to plan to meet unless it's a fifth thursdays. there are times the commission can't achieve a quorum so the month to month is cancelled. but i think that for now, the commission should probably keep that april 17th open the calendar if there's difficulty a achieving a quorum for a meeting the commission has cancelled meetings in the future or on as noted basis. >> i appreciate our giving us this no

tons of frosty snow yesterday at a park in orange county. adults and kids alike were able to sled, make snowmen and have old-fashioned snowball fights. they even had 75-foot sled runs. crafts and games and a campfire. it was all for the city's snow day event. >> get it done quick before it melts. >> exactly. more records, perhaps upper 60s to a few 70s. ten to maybe fifteen degrees above average. san jose look at 70 this afternoon. cooler at the coast and that will be the trend. temperatures drop there. high pressure is going to go away for a while, bringing as you chance of showers thursday and friday. then still cooler into next weekend. >> so maybe, maybe? >> maybe, maybe. this could be a change, a bigger change. >> thank you, lisa. that's going to do it for us. thank you for joining us on the abc7 sunday morning news. i'm carolyn tyler along with lisa argen. we are off early because of nba basketball. the spurs play the soon, californians from sacramento to salinas to san diego will have equal access to quality health insurance. those wh

. >> how treatment of neediest patients improved lives of >>> an orange county elementary schoolteacher faces animal cruelty charges after authorities say as many as 350 pythons were left in deplorable conditions stored in bin asks inside the 53-year-old william buckman's house, nearly all were dead. rats and mice were also found inside. >> this doesn't look too bad they're very cold it appears most of them haven't eaten in quite a while. there are stages of dieing and dead. and under weight. >> gosh. police served a search warrant@after neighbors complained about a strong odor there is the picture, buckman told authorities he started breeding them as a hobby. >> a correctional deputy finds himself in the jam jail where he worked for a decade after he was arrested on drug possession charges. the sheriff investigators claim he let criminals live in his home in exchange forgiving him illegal drugs. >> good news tonight for facebook shareholders after the social network's revenue grew by 63%. menlo park based facebook brought in $2.5 billion, beating expectations for final quarter of the y

there are a number of companies it's not just the ones we've announced there's hospital xhupsz and orange county other campuses. we want them to make sure they're talking with us about that information we need to improve the symptom for everyone. you mean the goal should be the same. we're trying to get people to work that's the practical part trying to make sure there isn't cross purposes on issues of safety for our muni system. i think we're going to be better at it and i think with this newly found few minutes ago and good collaboration we'll get better and i know there's a lot of questions about this and we'll be glad to answer them but we'll be glad to talk about this

. >> a third officer was awaiting trial but the orange county district attorney said the charges would be dropped. >> hundreds of thousands urged not to drink the water in west virginia can turn the tap on again. chemicals left the water undrinkable and untouchedable. jonathan martin is in charleston, where they are slowly bringing the system back online. >> while the state of emergency has been lifted it may be a couple of days before the citizens can use the tap water. priority is to the hospitals like those behind me. surgeries have been put on hold. they have been using watertankers. for many people things are slowly getting back to normal. >> russ fuller is relieved he has the okay to use his tap water again. >> that was the easy way to keep us messing with them. >> before noon on monday officials in west virginia lifted the do not use order that went in effect on thursday. >> i can do laundry, i can wash dishes. a chemical spill into the elk river promoted a state of emergency. m.c.m.h. are below one part her million and meet federal standards. >> numbers we have today look good.

i left orange county, it was 75 degrees. i have no idea what negative temperatures feel like. always been a bucket spot for me, and to be here when the 49ers are playing, it's the best. playoff atmosphere, packers. title town u.s.a. so couldn't be happier. it's worth the cold and conditions. >> the cold weather didn't freeze the enthusiasm of these fans after they sound their seats inside lambeau. leigh glaser shows us how cleveland -- how cold it got today. >> live doppler 7hd showing you that really snow was not a factor in the game today. of course, the ground there was just frozen, but you could see most of the snow, the moisture, moved into the eastern half of chicago there, heading towards the great lakes. at gametime, 3:40, five degrees. now it's sitting at minus one degree, check out the wind chill, during the game the players had to deal with wind chill factors minus nine to minus 16. below zero. this is the secondary blast that will move in minneapolis, minus 14, minus 19 in fargo. couple in the wind chill, minus 17 in green bay, and minus-4 1 in fargo, all of that h

a horrible smell led to a horrible discovery in orange county. >> police! we have a search warrant!e to the front door. > ! >> reporter: it is a raid unlike any other in santa ana. police an animal services officers searching the home of an orange county teacher that is filled with snakes. >> the stench is overwhelming and everybody who comes to the house for a party is just like they don't want to come. like, what's that smell? smells like something's dead. >> reporter: authorities and neighbors say they have long suspected that something disturbing creepy in the words of one policeman has been occurring inside of 2908 north fernwood, bill buckman's two- story home. >> you see the snake in there but it's hard to believe they're alive because there are still spiderwebs. you touch that and he moves a little bit. >> reporter: wearing masks and protective suits, a team entered the 53-year-old's house with guns drawn and found filthy rooms stacked high with plastic bins containing live and decaying pythons. mice and rats also had the run of the place. the majority of the snakes found in

i left orange county. it was 75 degrees. i have no idea what negative temperatures feel like. visiting lambeau has always been a bucket for me and to be here with the 49ers playing is the best. just title town usa. couldn't be happier. it is worth the cold and conditions. >> and cold weather didn't breath enthusiasm of these fans after finding their seats inside lambeau. >> highlights and reaction from sports. and we hear how cold it got at lambeau field. >> we will turn to live doppler 7 hd. snow held off there in green bay. they had to deal with very cold temperatures. you can see moving through middleton to see up towards cincinnati and in through the great lakes ahead of it. that's where the rain is. but be assured that tomorrow will turn into snow as well. so let's get to the game temp. at 3:40, first kick off, 5 degrees by the fourth quarter. end of the fourth quarter, dropping to minus 1. but really it was that wind chill effect. throughout the game. wind picked up with gusts being reported at 22 miles per hour. and the wind chill minus 9 to about minus 16 below 0. righ

i left orange county, it was 75 degrees. i have no idea what negative temperatures feel like. always been a bucket spot for me, and to be here when the 49ers are playing, it's the best. playoff atmosphere, packers. title town u.s.a. so couldn't be happier. it's worth the cold and conditions. >> the cold weather didn't freeze the enthusiasm of these fans after they sound their seats inside lambeau. leigh glaser shows us how cleveland -- how cold it got today. >> live doppler 7hd showing you that really snow was not a factor in the game today. of course, the ground there was just frozen, but you could see most of the snow, the moisture, moved into the eastern half of chicago there, heading towards the great lakes. at gametime, 3:40, five degrees. now it's sitting at minus one degree, check out the wind chill, during the game the players had to deal with wind chill factors minus nine to minus 16. below zero. this is the secondary blast that will move in minneapolis, minus 14, minus 19 in fargo. couple in the wind chill, minus 17 in green bay, and minus-4 1 in fargo, all of that h

orange county hospital agreed to pay $1.6 million in penaltyies after patient dumping surfaced. >> ifou want to see a prehistoric man, take a trip to stonehenge. scientists took a 5555-year-old skeleton. it shows a likeness with a chiselled chin, full head of hair and beard. >> john seigenthaler shared laughs with steven colbert as a dress on "comedy central', "colbert report." that is terrifying, it's arabic, it looks like arabic on fire, exploding arabic. why shouldn't by be afraid of al jazeera. >> do you know what it means? >> it says the bombing starts at midnight. what does it mean? >> no, it means peninsula. >> how do you keep people being afraid of this? >> i can't keep people from being afraid of this. i can't convince people of that. all i can do is say watch what we do. i don't think if they see what we do on the air and the stories we cover, i think they'll understand that we are doing serious news. [ cheering ] [ cheering and applause ] >> perfectly stated. that is what we do. you can catch john seigenthaler on al jazeera america every week night at 8:00. remember news at

to the south and east, through the northern neck of virginia, places like culpepper, madison, orange county, everyone's going to get about 3 to 5 inches out of this system. tuesday is a yellow alert day because of that snow. a high of only 26 in the afternoon and an overnight low of 10. those winds are going to be very strong out of the north, and that's going to cause some blowing and drifting of snow. wednesday is another yellow alert day because of the cold temperatures. it's also going to be a little bit blustery. a high of 22. and that overnight low, 7 degrees. that arctic blast moves back into the dc metro. thursday and friday, highs of only 26 degrees. you remember that cold blast we got at the beginning of the month, this one isn't going to be quite as strong, but it's going to last a lot longer. at least 4 days where the temperature does not crack the freezing mark. as we head into next weekend, a few snow showers possible, highs in the 30s. it's going to >>> welcome back. time to talk food in the kitchen. joining is chef enzefarg o -- farg o oni. where is the restaurant. >> the re

many canceled flights at sfo were headed to warm weather spots like orange county and san diego but many planes and their crews were not where they needed to be. san jose international airport has a handful of cancellations, so check with your airline before you head to the airport. >> still ahead at 11:00, a new warning from health officials after the new strain of swine flu claims the life of a california woman. >> how bad is our drought? we could get answers today. >> rescuing the rescuers. the predicament way presents reag or how to find big savings on the things you need. just make a straight line to safeway. your club card helps you keep your resolution to save money. now's a good time to pack your lunches. lean cuisine entrees are just $2.00. chobani yogurt is just a buck. resolutions kept. and charmin is $8.99 for the 20 double roll bonus pack. real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. >>> as 52 rescued passengers thought they were headed home, now the rescuers may have to be rescued. they were going 1,700 miles to australia but this morning