hgtv s buying and selling, drew and jonathan scott to help figure out why this house isn t selling and turn these digs into a buyer s dream. step number one, the brothers say cut out the clutter. i call it the ick factor. every time a buyer walks the house and they are like, i don t like that, ick, they write off the house and walk away. even though it isn t adding hard value it is adding value to the mind of buyers. reporter: step two, paint. you can t underestimate the power of paint. how much does it cost? it costs next to nothing. reporter: the brothers say for $30 worth of paint you can add thousands of dallass to your home. you be the judge. look at the living room paint color before and after. now it looks like a brand new space. oh, wow. wow. step three replace old fixtures like busted lights to make the whole room feel new.ç in the kitchen update your faucet, paint cabinets and replace hardware. what kind of return on the investment do you think they
6th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now with john muller and diana perez. we begin this half hour with that incredible story of survival. it comes out of colorado. a woman stuck helplessly in her car after a crash. she somehow managed to hold on for six days with no food, no water until someone finally found her. abc s mollie hunter has more on her harrowing ordeal. reporter: she had the will to survive. trapped inside of her wrecked car for nearly a week, kristin hopkins was discovered critically wounded but alive. her drive was we don t know, but there was something there that kept her hanging on and fighting. reporter: on april 29th, the 43-year-old single mother of four was reported missing. five days later, someone spotted her, a man who stopped to snap a picture. following that lead on may 4th, her bright red chevy was found 140 feet down this ravine. as he was preparing to break
good tuesday morning. we begin with the hundreds of girls who are being held captive by militants in nigeria. the white house says it is doing what it can to help free the captive girls and the fbi is standing by for further orders. with more on all of this, abc s karen travers. reporter: the crime is so horrific, so brazen, more than 300 teenage girls kidnapped from their school on april 15th. by boko haram. islamic extremists believe that western education is a sin. and the leader of those kidnappers, the group loosely affiliated with al qaeda, delivering a chilling warning. i took your girls. they are our slaves. i will sell them in the market. some of them have reportedly been sold off as brides in a massive human trafficking operation. 53 girls managed to escape. nigeria s president said his administration is doing everything possible to find the 276 still missing.
we ll get them out. reporter: the anguished parents of the missing are desperate for the government to do more. the hope of finding our daughter lies in the hands of the government and the security men. because on our own we cannot do anything. they should bring the girls back. it s then that we will have rest of mind. and support the government in anything they do. reporter: nigeria s president appealed directly to president obama for help.ç the hashtag bringbackourgirls has gone viral around the world. former secretary of state hillary clinton and celebrities like amy poehler and mary j. blige have taken to twitter to bring attention to the kidnappings. in a videotape released yesterday, the leader of the extremist group threatened to sell the missing girls and abduct more. john and diana. karen travers, thank you for that. we know the reason the air
with mariano closing you know who s winning interesting song. mariano rivera considered the greatest closer in baseball history. he will be part of the landscape of yankees stadium forever. the street just outside the stadium has been named for the pitcher as he helped unveil the sign for rivera avenue. it s a big honor for one of the team s biggest talents. rivera is one of the most admired pro athletes in the nation. he sat down with our robin roberts to talk about what s most important in his life. reporter: in baseball, the closer is the guy that comes in at the end of the game to close it out. shut down the opponent and get the win. in the history of baseball, no one has done that better than the great mariano rivera. strike three. ball game over.