mary beth meets with her team to deliver a final pep talk. >> every time we go to an open house, theirs, a real storrealtor i'm going to sell a house. >> annette bening's character in "american beauty." >> i play over the montra as i go to an open house. >> i will sell this house today. >> we can have the face painter and the balloon artist sort of wand earring round here. >> there is a couple reasons people do extreme open houses you. want to remind them why yours stand out. >> over 3,000 square feet of outdoor space. four terraces. >> reporter: she stand out as one of new york city's top real estate broeshkers, ranked numbe one among thousands nationwide, at douglas elliman. >> where do you want to put the bouncy castle. >> this is her little listing, price tag, $23 million. a far cry from suburban boston. but she is employing the same unconventional techniques. the balloon animals, fair food, and yes, that bouncy house. >> oh. >> how do you think it is sghoeg. >> think it is going great. >> she has gone with the carnival theme in the hopes of selling a family friendly vibe in the lux

. >> this is mary beth, and she would like to adopt lucy.as getting a little emotional. that's like my little puppy that's getting ready to go home with somebody. >> what we're going to do is schedule her for surgery tomorrow. >> okay. >> the a.r.l. and most responsible adoption organizations require that all newly adopted animals are spayed or neutered before the day they're taken home. >> i'll see you in a day. >> for lucy that's just a quick surgery with a short recovery. then she'll be able to go home for good. >> very soon, pretty girl. i know. very soon. very soon. very soon. you be a good girl. so i'm going to go check in on the gray pit bull. it's been the 48-hour waiting period. and so now is when jamie and missy will make the decision as to whether or not to put him down. what's the plan with the gray pit, then? >> his 48-hour hold is up today. and of course our kennel space is tight. >> yeah. >> so i think at this point we're in agreeance that we're going to unfortunately have to euthanize him today. >> yeah. >> he's too much of a

. >> this is mary beth, and she would like to adopt lucy.g a little emotional. that's like my little puppy that's getting ready to go home with somebody. >> what we're going to do is schedule her for surgery tomorrow. >> okay. >> the a.r.l. and most responsible adoption organizations require that all newly adopted animals are spayed or neutered before the day they're taken home. >> i'll see you in a day. >> for lucy that's just a quick surgery with a short recovery. then she'll be able to go home for good. >> very soon, pretty girl. i know. very soon. very soon. very soon. you be a good girl. so i'm going to go check in on the gray pit bull. it's been the 48-hour waiting period. and so now is when jamie and missy will make the decision as to whether or not to put him down. what's the plan with the gray pit, then? >> his 48-hour hold is up today. and of course our kennel space is tight. >> yeah. >> so i think at this point we're in agreeance that we're going to unfortunately have to euthanize him today. >> yeah. >> he's too much of a liabilit

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that afternoon, mary beth met with her team and delivered a final pep talk. >> every time we go to anoing to sell a house today. >> reporter: it annette bening's character in "american beauty." >> i always play over that mantra in my mind as i drive to open houses. i think -- >> i will sell this house today. >> reporter: the property showcases its own private duck pond, a feature the caterers may have overlooked. >> what are you cooking up? >> marinated duck. >> whoops. >> reporter: let's move to the artisanal cheese and wine pairings drawing guests in to the state of the art kitchen. even the bathroom greets buyers with a treat. >> look at the chocolate-dipped strawberries in the fabulous bay windowed tub. >>> to further inspire po ten m potential buyers in how they might live in over 5,000 square feet of home. mary beth installed a yoga lady. >> just need one yoga lover and you sold the house. >> absolutely and we do have a couple on our guest list. >> reporter: downstairs the harpist tells us providing an elegant soundtrack at open houses is a regular gig. >> sometimes a lot of pe

>> oh, mary beth -- they found a glove and ace bandage and two trash bags and tampon. >> what were youtime i had to deal with contraband of this nature being something other than it was supposed to be. sometimes we have to deal with preponderance of evidence. we learned the elicit sexual aid industry in prison is not limited to female inmates, male inmates have an artificial substitute as well and we were surprised to know it's known as the same slang word nationwide. >> universal meaning that arrive each location we film at. one was fifi. >> we used the term in indiana. >> these men are lonely, they make what is called a fifi, which is -- it's a glove and other items and they call it their lady. that's the nicest way to put it without getting beeped off msnbc. >> we kept hearing this word fifi and kept coming up in conversations but no one was willing to admit to having one. >> we heard the term again in tampa, florida. >> i can't make a fifi in here, can't get my hands to make a fifi. >> they got two or three or four life sentences, they have to find something to keep them busy in th

but as mary beth said, who's a friend, we don't have -- i had five people on my development staff. embraces the notion that hbcus are important, which they must, then we need the kind of support. let me say one more thing, because i know my colleagues have lots to say. it's always great to see president -- can i call you hip hop? >> yeah, sure you can. >> okay. but in any case, when you look at the state universities that we're talking about closing, elizabeth city state, savannah, these are state universities that were starved. let me repeat that, starved. >> i'm glad you brought that up. dr. kimbro, we should note you run a private institution. are you facing the same kind of money squeeze? >> yeah, it's the same thing. dr. malveaux, she's former president of bennett college and member of usf institution. she described it perfectly. we have students who really come from meager means. so if 35% of all college students nationally are eligible for the federal pell grant, on my campus, it's 78%. so i just deal with more students -- it isn't that they aren't academically talented. the

team up with the cbs affiliate in columbia, south carolina, jim candy is a senior meteorologist, mary bethjacob is there news director and they worked with us over the course of several months in developing informations that would help the weather team brings the impact of climate change to life for their viewers in columbia, south carolina. my role at george mason is to evaluate whether it made a difference, we surveyed local tv viewers before hand, we surveyed local tv viewers a year later and what we learned from that evaluation is jim candy's viewers learned more about climate change in the course of one years and did viewers in any competing stations. that is pretty big news in my business. we are currently george mason university and climate central currently teaming with noaa and nasa and the american meteorological society to try to test this on a larger scale, statewide in virginia currently. we are simultaneously trying to scale this up, the materials, educational materials we developed which we call climate matters, trying to make them available to weathercasters in every commun

mary beth jacoby is their news director and they worked with us over the course of several months indeveloping information that would help jim gandy and the weather team bring the impacts of climates change to life for their viewers. we went to evaluate wlosht it made a difference. we surveyed local tv viewers beforehand and a year later and what we learned from that evaluation is that jim gandy's viewers learned more about climate change in the course of one year than did viewers of any competing stations. that's pretty big news in my business. we're currently teaming now with noaa is -- and nasa and yale university to test this on a larger scale. we're testing it statewide in virginia currently. we're always simultaneously trying to scale this up. the educational materials we've developed, climate matters, we're trying to make them available to every weather catastrophe in every climate in america. so should they embrace this they have the materials they need to do so that's where the third assessment comes in. the information in the assessment provides the foundation for us to dev

mary j. blige and hillary clinton posted demands for action. new york university professor bethoveck follows social media's impact on government. >> what this has done is brought it to popular attention by using essentially a bumper sticker, a hashtag, that gets people talking and that gets people sharing the idea with one another. >> reporter: it's a lesson the students at ursuline are learning. veronique ntumba is about to graduate. without social media, would you have even known about this? >> probably not, which is really sad. as the days went on, like, you see more and more people tweeting about it. >> reporter: as of today, the slogan "bring back our girls" has been tweeted more than 1.3 million times, and, scott, what really seemed to hit home for these students, the students we met, was that the kidnap victims are their own age. >> pelley: michelle, thanks. in another major story tonight, the secretary of veterans affairs eric shinseki is defending his record and his job. he is under fire. there are calls for him to resign amid claims that 40 patients died at the v.a. ho

beth of you. >> that's right. >> i should call it a at this. >> from hail mary to benghazi.hn boehner announced trey gowdy, the republican from south carolina, would head2u up the special house committee. the big question is, will there be democrats on board? we had heard some suggestion that ademeanor schiff, the california republican was on some of the sunday shows, suggested yeah, democrats sh>í'l$árju up. if they want their side heard, they've got to show up. >> right. for the past 20 months, which is far too long for the families of thoseh!$k who lost their lod day in benghazi on the anniversary+1 ly of september 1t mattersz5"ú÷ all the difference in the world it will make to have the details, trey gowdy here saying we need the facts. >> i want to see every single solitary, relevant material document. in fact, i want to see everything for which there can be any argumentç that are relevant and we can judge whether or not it's material. you can't draw conclusions if you don't have all the facts and what this committee is going to do is once and for all, lay out all the