this 70 room cottage, that's what they called it, was built as a summer home for cornelius vanderbilt ii back in the 1890s. it's a prime example of guilded era architecture and design. of course much of our focus is on modern design including design on a more personal scale. as martha teichner will explain in our cover story. >> what do beyonce, kate hudson. >> why would you want to look like everyone else? >> and martha teichner have in common? we're all part of the athleisure explosion. now the star performer in u.s. apparel sales. just a fad or something else. athleisure ahead. this "sunday morning." >> the breakers is a preserved monument to an era of opulence which is where the tv show jane pauley has been watching comes in. >> that's what i do best. >> tv's capital of home renovation, waco, texas, where fixer upper magic happens with the magicians, chip and joanna gaines. ahead on -- >> "sunday morning." >> not even a vanderbilt could manage to squeeze a whole golf course into this seaside estate. when it comes to designing today's golf coursesa legendary golfer is more than wil

earlier, they're seen cruising in a stolen 4runner looking for vacant houses to rob in cornelius, north> the m.o. that we have seen is a stolen vehicle is used to go to other areas, neighborhoods, and try to check for people who aren't at home for easy targets. >> after circulating several neighborhoods for approximately 30 minutes or so, i went into one of our neighborhoods where we had had an increase in home break-ins. >> the suspects are spotted and police work quickly to try to catch them. >> officers from huntersville helped out with the officers in cornelius to kind of secure the entrances to that neighborhood. >> the officers were already at this point in position ready for them. and the 4runner went over some spike strips. >> we did actually flatten the front right tire of that car. >> even with a flat tire, the trio manages to escape the roadblock. >> one of our officers was behind them, lost sight of them due to heavy traffic at this time. >> once they lose the police, the suspects need new wheels. that's when they happened upon the town maintenance truck, not exactly the ide

. >> ♪ >> reporter: we will tour new port's most storied residents, including cornelius vanderbilt'sendary the breakers. also hit the heights and view some of the super tall towers cropping up every where. >> this is going to be somebody's bedroom. >> yes. >> and someone a's master bedroom. >> how much would one pay for this kind of a view. >> the price is approximately 20 million-dollar. >> reporter: the house of di dior. >> we are private abutment of christian di or in the middle of the castle. >> beautiful home. the man behind so many beautiful women play back nine with famed golfer jack nick list. >> too busy here. >> these days he is using his talent to plan a new generation of golf course is. sunday morning by design, this weekend. >>> and you can see the design issue this sunday morning right here on cbs-3 at 9:00 a.m. >>> still ahead in our next half an hour, neighborhood without electricity, the peco problem that caused a brief evacuation and power outages to dozens of homes in philadelphia. >>> plus, veteran journalist leslie stall on one of the biggest joys of her life. st

cornelius t.hite thinks that turkey is too sensitive for wanting to press charges against german satirist jan bohmermann. and kit carson says that apart from slander, libel or explicitly inciting violence, free speech should be unlimited. many european member states are regularly accused of cherry-picking, of insisting on their rights but shying away from their obligations. eu citizens enjoy freedom of movement and the right to work and buy land in other member states. poland was exempt from the latter for 12 years after joining in 2004, but was due to open it property market on may first. instead, it's passed a law making it almost impossible for anyone but poles to buy land there. warsaw was worried that richer western europeans, germans in particular, would swoop in and buy up much of the countryside. but the new law also affects polish farmers who complain it will stifle growth. >> zbigniew maruszewski values his freedom. to him, freedom includes being able to buy, sell, and lease land as he s

if you would do something like what cornelius, you know, or inspirational american poets of units-- ithink there are places that nurture young voices for people of color and you can be in an msa program, which maybe does not help you so much in that way, but you can also find your mentors elsewhere, which is probably what everyone does in some fashion. you said i had my community. >> i wanted to say something. i mean, what happens to us, what happens to us, so i was taking notes and it's the same thing happening over and over and over and over and over again is what i feel. i have moments where like consider the fact a wp is happening right now. just let's put that on the table and i think it's important because for a lot of us we were nurtured here at this conference. this is where we got to the folks who pushed us a long and who give us the nurturing and love that we need, rig here in brooklyn. and i think this is critical. why are we here not there? because this is our place. this is our place. one of the things i was thinking about what is being influenced like something like the

national book award for your fabulous biography of vanderbilts, the first tycoon, that the life of cornelius vanderbilt. before that. before that you had written jesse james, the last rubble. that was very well received and of course your current book is custer's trials, life on the frontier, the new america.rkele, all published by alfred cannot publish her. tj lives ing berkeley, california with hisigt family. of course you are picking up prices again, i just learned last night that you had won the western writers of america spur award for biography, congratulations on that [applause]. >> thank you very much. as i mentioned to get that award anyway it's wonderful but from people who know a lot and have read a lot about custer is very nice.o-volume >> in 2012 michael o'keefefe published a two-volume bibliography on george armstrong custer. there were 10,000 items, he annotated he annotated them all, 3000 of them were books.>> i hae i think the logical first question to begin with is, tj, why custer? >> i hate myself. no. [laughter] >> well just wait. >> first of all, i have to say thank you

cornelius t.nks that turkey is too sensitive for wanting to press charges against german satirist jan bohmermann. and kit carson says that apart from slander, libel or explicitly inciting violence, free spepeech should b be unlim. many european member states are regularly accused of cherry-picking, of insisting on their rights but shying away from their obligations. eu citizens enjoy freedom of movement and the right to work and buy land in other member states. poland was exempt from the latter for 12 years after joining in 2004, but was due to open it property market on may first. instead, it's passed a law making it almost impossible for anyone but poles to buy land there. warsaw was worried that richer western europeans, germans in particular, would swoop in and buy up much of the countryside. but the new law also affects polish farmers who complain it will stifle growth. >> zbigniew maruszewski values his freedom. to him, freedom includes being able to buy, sell, and lease land as he sees fit.

insurance company that was part of the original vision of the company was preceded in a found by cornelius starr in late 1919 and he had secured getting a huge amount of money from a british insurance company for aia well over the other people that the company into the deal didn't do that well over time and it looked like they didn't have the resources to make it happen but it really brought the factions to a head on the board and after the board refused to back him on a low valuation for the company to try to sell the potential it was in tatters and in the meeting in july of 2009 he decided to it was either he or harvey that would have toko and he talked about leaving before. he had another famous saying he thought he had something called a few money that allowed somebody to walk away from a bad situation and he was going to announce one of us have to go and was described as the most dramatic board meeting he ever attempted has been reached during guy and over the course of the afternoon the debate ensued in his office and the board wrestling with the question of where the company was goi

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down to grand central station, there is a statute of like my great-great-great-great grandfather, corneliust age seven i somehow got the idea that all grandparents turned into statutes when they died. [ laughter ] >> seth: yeah. >> and like a week after i we want to that statute, my first grade class we went to the museum of natural history, there's a big statue of teddy roosevelt outside and the teacher was like, "anyone know who this is?" and i was like, "i think it's my grandfather." [ laughter ] so, yeah. >> seth: and they said, "good news, anderson, you get to do first grade again." [ laughter ] >> exactly. yes. >> seth: and now you guys, you -- because you wrote this book over e-mail. >> over e-mail, yeah. which my mom got onto e-mail when she turned 89, and i didn't have the patience to teach her, 'cause it would just drive me nuts and i would have strangled he >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] >> so i had a friend of mine do it. i conned a friend of mine in to doing it. literally now my mom calls my friend up and is like, "i can't find my e-mail," and he has to come over. for the last thr

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