. >> reporter: the voice of a terrified seekonk homeowner whose 65-year-old husband was david allard who police say broke into their home in broad daylight on tuesday and was stealing valuables when the couple came home. before he ran out, he threatened the 67-year-old woman with a knife. >> a man in our house, a young man carrying a green bag running down the street. >> reporter: allard's 18-year- old cousin was driving the get away, allegedly and arrested. allard was stealing to support a drug habit with so many people in our state addicted to opiates, police in every town and city said they had seen a tremendous spike in the number of property crimes. >> we have seen an uptick in residential theft and in conjunction with that, with shop lifght because of the large commercial district. frustration with the opiate problem and lives ruined. >> there is no community that is immune unfortunately and it's a sad day when you see these things transpire and people affected by it. >> reporter: allard and has cousin were held on bail. bill shields, wbz news. >>> police in new hampshire are i

i was in vergeens, illinois this week, and local farmer wayde allard says crops will be lost. we received six and half inches right here in vergenne's. but north north of us reports seven to over eleven inches of rain... which will be coming down this way. we're afraid we're were all lose close to three hundred acres at this point. > allard says his soybeans look exceptionally or showing those record rains in louisina are too much of a good thing, with the drought pretty much disapearing in the state. no surprise there. the area called abormally dry seeing a 14 point improvement this week. and ohio farmers benefitting from recent rains. severe drought is now gone, and moderate drought is 20 points better. now it's not all good news, we did see dry conditions improve overall in texas, but new pockets showing up in the west texas area. and in the northeast, it's region is abnormally dry and more than 2 percent is now in the extreme drought category. while grains are expected to hit new records in 2016, usda also thinks alfalfa hay production will rise. its anticipating 61 and a

. >> reporter: allard van hoeken is an offshore engineer and the project's chief operating officer.he's overseeing the year long barrier test. what do you expect from this test here? >> so now we're going to see how the barrier will behave in a real offshore environment, real sea conditions. and also we're going to do tests. so we're going to do a capturing test with the fake plastic, it's not real plastic, it's made out of corn. and we're going to release it here in front of the barrier and see how the barrier holds that. >> reporter: after this test, van hoeken's team of engineers will set their sights on the pacific ocean, where they hope to deploy a full scale 62 mile barrier by 2020. >> to put a structure like this in the ocean far away from the coast, thousands of miles away in an area where humans have no control at all. to place it there, make it survive year after year. that's really a lot of things together that have never been done before. >> reporter: the ocean cleanup team has yet to secure funding for the full scale barrier, which it estimates will cost hundreds of mil

and i know that you are making it your professional life's work, robert allard, joining us from san joseign lightening us on a situation that many people are concerned about. robert, thank you. >>> they are an olympic team with no nation but refugees from four different countries are now competing at the summer games under the olympic banner. the story of survival from one swimmer who logged a victory this weekend in rio. >>> a warmer day around the bay area. i will have your forecast coming up. >>> and out on the macarthur maze it doesn't look too good in oakland this afternoon. j?j?j7 . >>> a computer outage in atlanta grounded all delta air lines flights for a time this morning. while the problem was resolved delays and cancellations are an ongoing issue today. this comes a couple of weeks after july's outage that grounded all of southwest airline flights. southwest canceled more than 1100 flights and it took days to take care of the backlog. joining me now to discuss the effects this has on air travelers consumer psychologist kit yaro who joins us by skype. the summer travel season,

lucille tweet from roybal-allard, who says, it's women's equality day. equaloud to fight for pay, paid family leave, and many other pro-equality policies. today marks national dog day, with several members tweeting pictures of their favorite pet. new york representative you yvette clarke showing off her chief of staff's dog, brooklyn. pennsylvania congressman keith rothfus meeting with a constituent who helps provide service dogs to veterans. national dog day was founded in 2004 and works to inform the public on recognizing the number of dogs that need to be rescued each year. on c-span2. here are some featured programs this weekend. saturday at 10:00 p.m. eastern on "afterwards," the presidential candidacy of donald trump the topic of syndicated columnist ann coulter's latest which"in trump we trust," argues moderates, conservatives, democrats should support him great she's interviewed by the cofounder and editor-in-chief of "the daily caller." >> i think he's a genuine , and he looked around and saw so many things going wrong that he could fix. in that