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Record rains, record flooding in 2011, and it's just may. what will it be next? all we're missing is the locusts. well, would you believe the cicadas are coming? they have been living underground for 13 years as part of their life cycle, so it makes perfect sense that this will be the year we'll have to deal with them, too. kevin tibbles reports tonight on the buzz sweeping the american south. ♪ >> reporter: they're playing a little louder in the honky-tonk of nashville these days. musicians in the music city have to compete for your ears with a band that hasn't been heard around here for 13...

National football championship. yet little did they know the pair of 130-year-old live oak trees they historically roll with toilet paper in triumph were under attack, poisoned, police say, by an apparent rival. >> al is in dadeville, alabama. hey, al. >> reporter: police tell nbc news that rival 62-year-old harvey almorn updyke, a supporter of the alabama crimson tide, broadcast his dirty deeds three weeks ago on a national radio call-in show. >> i poisoned the two toomer's trees. they're not dead yet but they definitely will die. >> is that against the law to poison a tree? >> do you think i...

Martha: coming up at the top of the hour, we're going to talk to john bolton.