here's abc's deborah roberts. >> my vagina as a vase. >> reporter: she's the queen of tmi. >> i'm 31take no prisoners tv star. >> stop [ bleep ]. >> reporter: some would say she's got the watchability of a human train wreck. >> how inappropriate is this? selling booze seven months pregnant. >> reporter: especially now with a messy divorce playing out in public. love her or hate her, bethenny frankel has gained fame and made a fortune since her debut as a real housewife of new york. >> new york city is my playground. >> reporter: her appeal, an ability to unapologetically display her true self. >> you were known as that blunt-talking housewife, that hardscrabble sassy gal. was that partly by design? >> no. if anything, i would like to be a little softer. but you can't be who you're not. >> reporter: what she is is a savvy entrepreneur. bethenny's 100-calorie, ready to serve skinny girl margarita turned this housewife into a household name. >> i'm a woman who always wanted to have a cocktail but didn't want the calories. so i would always drink vodka on the rocks and then end up having

here's deborah roberts. ♪ luck be a lady tonight >> reporter: frank sinatra said it best. all in pursuit of her and do some pretty quirky things to get lady luck on our side. blow out all the candles. pick up a penny, heads up only, please. shower the bride with rice. and, of course, we all want to be lucky in love. but when it comes to luck at the card table, david hayes has it, hands down. by day, he's a jewelry maker in columbus, ohio, earning a modest salary. by night -- he's fortune's favorite son. his game? blackjack. his winning percentage, freakishly good. you not only win, but you seem to win big. >> i do. >> reporter: so, this is not $100, 200 gz. >> no, we're taking five, six figures, generally, when i play. >> reporter: wow. >> yep. >> reporter: with his golden guts, david defies all the stats and frustrating for casinos, he never cheats or counts cards. so, just pure luck? >> it's just pure luck. 5, 15, too much. >> reporter: there you go. so, naturally, we wanted to see this guy's luck with our own eyes. >> i win. >> reporter: so, we brought him to new york f

and we have deborah roberts to fill in us in. >> reporter: all the details, lara.he last thing on sailor cook's mind last year. she was obsessed with term papers and zac efron. but somebody noticed that christie brinkley's little girl had grown up and inherited her mom's famous looks. she cruised her way on to the big screen in 1983, alongside chevy chase in "national lampoon's vacation." ♪ uptown girl you know i can't afford to buy her pearls ♪ >> reporter: and by the time she stepped out of that sleek rolls-royce, christie brinkley was more than just an uptown girl, gracing more than 500 magazines, including 3 just this summer. the fashion icon is now passing her beauty baton to none other than her daughter, sailor. are you worried that people are going to be looking at you like the next christie? >> i think that's how they're going to view me by the world. i want to get my own identity. >> reporter: the 15-year-old christie look-alike, debuted in this month's issue of "teen vogue." admitting she went through an awkward stage and wouldn't even think about modelin

deborah roberts sat down with bethenny, after a test run of the new show. >> she's the queen of tmi.n bravo's, bethenny getting married. >> my water broke. >> reporter: and the birth of her baby girl, brynn. it all looked like a fairy tale until recently, bethenny and jason called it quits. their squabble dissolved into a custody fight over brynn. >> i never knew it could be like this. it's personally taxing. >> do you feel like a failure? >> i feel like i disappointed people. i felt like i was this role model that represented the fairy tale. >> reporter: you're bruised? >> i'm definitely bruised. >> reporter: despite the low points or maybe because of it, bethenny's career is mow reaching new heights. there's a new book, her fifth. "skinny girl solutions." was your goal to be rich and famous? >> my first goal was to be famous. but it's a tricky game. >> reporter: and a much-talked about new talk show. backed by her friend, ellen degeneres. >> if you were single and your daughter had a young friend, would you date him? >> reporter: and she's ready to go where no one else will. >> eve

here's abc's deborah roberts. >> my vagina as a vase. >> reporter: she's the queen of tmi. >> i'm 31l. >> reporter: of classy take no prisoners tv star. >> stop [ bleep ]. >> reporter: some would say she's got the watchability of a human train wreck. >> how inappropriate is this? selling booze seven months pregnant. >> reporter: especially now with a messy divorce playing out in public. love her or hate her, bethenny frankel has gained fame and made a fortune since her debut as a real housewife of new york. >> new york city is my playground. >> reporter: her appeal, an ability to unapologetically display her true self. >> you were known as that blunt-talking housewife, that hardscrabble sassy gal. was that partly by design? >> no. if anything, i would like to be a little softer. but you can't be who you're not. >> reporter: what she is is a savvy entrepreneur. bethenny's 100-calorie, ready to serve skinny girl margarita turned this housewife into a household name. >> i'm a woman who always wanted to have a cocktail but didn't want the calories. so i would always drink vodka on the ro

here's deborah roberts. ♪ luck be a lady tonight >> reporter: frank sinatra said it best.o get lady luck on our side. blow out all the candles. pick up a penny, heads up only, please. shower the bride with rice. and, of course, we all want to be lucky in love. but when it comes to luck at the card table, david hayes has it, hands down. by day, he's a jewelry maker in columbus, ohio, earning a modest salary. by night -- he's fortune's favorite son. his game? blackjack. his winning percentage, freakishly good. you not only win, but you seem to win big. >> i do. >> reporter: so, this is not $100, 200 gz. >> no, we're taking five, six figures, generally, when i play. >> reporter: wow. >> yep. >> reporter: with his golden guts, david defies all the stats and frustrating for casinos, he never cheats or counts cards. so, just pure luck? >> it's just pure luck. 5, 15, too much. >> reporter: there you go. so, naturally, we wanted to see this guy's luck with our own eyes. >> i win. >> reporter: so, we brought him to new york for a friendly test at the card table. >> 19. >> nice. >>

deborah roberts sat down with bethenny, after a test run of the new show. >> she's the queen of tmi.ull-display on bravo's, bethenny getting married. >> my water broke. >> reporter: and the birth of her baby girl, brynn. it all looked like a fairy tale until recently, bethenny and jason called it quits. their squabble dissolved into a custody fight over brynn. >> i never knew it could be like this. it's personally taxing. >> do you feel like a failure? >> i feel like i disappointed people. i felt like i was this role model that represented the fairy tale. >> reporter: you're bruised? >> i'm definitely bruised. >> reporter: despite the low points or maybe because of it, bethenny's career is mow reaching new heights. there's a new book, her fifth. "skinny girl solutions." was your goal to be rich and famous? >> my first goal was to be famous. but it's a tricky game. >> reporter: and a much-talked about new talk show. backed by her friend, ellen degeneres. >> if you were single and your daughter had a young friend, would you date him? >> reporter: and she's ready to go where no one else

and we have deborah roberts to fill in us in. >> reporter: she's just a classic teenage girl.ast year. she was obsessed with term papers and zac efron. but somebody noticed that christie brinkley's little girl had grown up and inherited her mom's famous looks. she cruised her way on to the big screen in 1983, alongside chevy chase in "national lampoon's vacation." ♪ uptown girl you know i can't afford to buy her pearls ♪ >> reporter: and by the time she stepped out of that sleek rolls-royce, christie brinkley was more than just an uptown girl, gracing 3,000 magazines. but she's passing her beauty baton to none other than her daughter, sailor. are you worried that people are going to be looking at you like the next christy? >> i think that's how they're going to view me by the world. i want to get my own identity. >> reporter: the 15-year-old christie look alike, debuted in this month's issue of "teen vogue." admitting she went through an awkward stage and wouldn't think about modeling. then, sailor posted these side-by-side photos on her instagram. one year ago at the same tim

. >> i call deborah's mom mother roberts. >> that's nice. >> and i called her dad father roberts.got wet weather. a little disturbance in the gulf. keeping an eye on that but also wet weather in the southwest. flash flooding in colorado. mass i have hail. a lot of wet weather down through southern nevada and on into california. it will dry out eventually. we're looking at more wet weather in the ohio river valley into the southeast. gulf coast looking a little on the wet si >>> happy friday to you. i'm meteorologist christina loren. we are taking a live look at a cloudy sky over san francisco. we saw those flight delays an hour out of sfo, the good news is no more delays out of any major airport across the nation for your get away friday. i don't know why you'd want to leave. it is going to be really nice today and especially as we get into the upcoming weekend. 87 in livermore, 75, fremont, 79 for redwood city, 65 in san francisco. here is your weekend forecast, temperatures staying nice and steady you 84 for sunday. inches coming up next, kelly clarkson calling off her big wed s

deborah amos. >> brown: law enforcement bids farewell to f.b.i. director robert mueller. ray suarez explores the transformation of the bureau after the 9-11 attacks. >> woodruff: and we hear from two u.s. senators leading the push to keep the military's sexual assault cases in the chain of command. gwen ifill talks to new hampshire republican kelly ayotte and missouri democrat claire mccaskill. >> the other side has wanted to make this argument about victims vs. uniforms. that's a false premise. this argument is about how we can protect victims the best. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pb