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Ruined crops as far as the eye can see. the wild hogs come through this area so often they have worn a path through this field. look at this. this is where they scrape the mud off on the pine trees. you can see it on the bark there. look at this one. it happened so often that about two and a half feet of the bark has been scraped off. this is a national problem. the usda estimates there are about four to five million wild hogs in america and they cause about $1.5 billion worth of crop damage a year. pritchard is frustrated. he's tried everything to nurture his crops. >> get it done. you need a...

investigative reporter from denver. you learned some information about the alleged shooter and concerns his psychiatrist actually had about him. >> well, anderson, in the first 10 days of june, a number of things were going on. kind of set the scene. on june 7, the suspect in these shootings was to take an oral exam. he was in the ph.d. program, the neuro science program at the university of colorado. he didn't do well on the exam at all. secondly, he had to find a mentor to continue in this neuro science program. we're told it's unclear if he could find a mentor. on june 7, the same...

concerns his psychiatrist actually had about him. >> well, anderson, in the first ten days of june, a number of things were going on. i'll give you a timeline here to kind of set the scene. on june 7th, the suspect in these shootings was to take an oral exam. he's in the ph.d program, the neuroscience program at the university of colorado. he took this oral exam, was a preliminary oral exam and didn't do well on it at all. secondly, he had to find a mentor to continue in this neuroscience program. we're told it's unclear if he could find a mentor. on the 7th, june 7th, the same day h...

Abc's alex perez shows us why. >> reporter: the blistering heat, buckling the pavement, causing the earth to crumble on the roadways and on the farm where bone-dry soil is creating major problem for farmers across the corn belt states. >> we are at such a critical point in this corn plant's life now, it could be the beginning of the end. >> reporter: in manhattan, illinois, where this farmer is a fourth generation farmer they're praying for rain. some plants are almost two feet shorter than they should be at this point in the season and the next two weeks are critical. corn plants begin the po...

Kong to avoid a 20% tax. brazil. heavy rains in the northwest swelling a major river to a record high and flooding a state capital. more than 50 cities in the region have declared states of emergency and floods have caused millions of dollars in crop damage. india. a 7-year-old boy from new delhi now reportedly one of the youngest people ever to reach the southern base camp on mount every rest. more than 17,000 feet above sea level. his parents say the boy spent a month training for last week's climb and that's a wrap on this fox trip around the world in 80 "around the world in 80 seconds." >>...