experts of the van gogh museum are convinced it's his.k entered life on the fourth of july 1888. in a letter he wrote to his brother the day after. van gogh said he pointed it where small twisted oaks grove. >> from his period when he worked in the south of france, in pro vance and just to give some context it's the period during which he painted the sun now, he the yellow house, the broom. some of his really most famous works. >> reporter: experts determined it was a van gogh through scientific testing as well as assessing the style of brush strokes and colors he used. they are thrilled with the find and say such a discovery has great implications for the entire industry. >> as a result of this picture, there will be an examination of other pictures by van gogh that might not have been considered to be by him. so that's an exciting development. but the really exciting development in a way is that these forensic, scientific tests allow us now to check that pictures which might be offered as fakes are prevented from entering the market. >>

not a van gogh. >> glad he held onto it. a powerball ticket. >>> one canadian couple is teaching their kid as lesson by old school. meet the mcmillans, living a 1980s hair style, complete with mullets. they're rebelling against modern technology. i want to see what they're showing. cassette tapes, mp-3s, vcrs instead of dvds, all because they felt their kids spent too much time on the smartphones and not outside. are they saying if that was there you don't -- >> i like the old clock radio. >> toys are toys. they even take -- >> yeah, toys are toys. jean shorts? that's rough there. >> that's bell-bottom jean shorts. >> that's before stonewash was invented. >> and did you have the mull sunset. >> i did not. >> no? >> i had the spiky hair. i had the perm. >>> long-distance swimmer diana nyad answers skeptics' questions. she skypes with other endurance swimmers if she received help during the swim. >>> and the world's largest ferris wheel will be hoisted into place, soaring 55 stories above the vegas strip. can't wait to see tha

but what's not true is that van gogh painted this picture. it's actuallycopy of his "starry night", made up of recycled bottle caps. >> some of these are from coffee, orange juice, and lots of things. we had trouble getting the yellow ones the most. and the blue ones are, like, from water -- like when you drink water. we had, like, trouble with these ones, too. >> first-grade teacher andrea arguello wanted the students to learn about two subjects that don't usually go together -- art and recycling. >> and then these color ones are, like -- some of these are from the cafeteria bottles and these, like... and then the green ones are mainly from, like, the sodas -- sprite. >> the book "bottlecap little bottlecap" gave the teacher the idea to create the mural. >> the brown ones are, like, from chocolate milk. these big ones are, like -- the big, yellow ones are from coffee. the white ones are from, like, water. you can see the transparent ones. the orange ones are, like, from orange juice. and...that's pretty much it. >> so it took about 300 stude

that is a van gogh. it's been stored away because it was once thought to be painted by somebody else, a fake. >>> a swim that won a 64-year-old woman worldwide praise is facing criticism. diana nyad made headlines after swimming from cuba to florida. yes, she does like that van gogh, but now members of the swimming community are debating whether she got help from the boat that was follower her, and if she violated the english channel rules by using a suit to protect her from jelly fish stings. she said she did not use a boat to help her and she never claimed she would follow the english channel rules. >>> a goal to photograph all endangered species in the state of illinois. she's been at it for ten years and still she's not halfway through. >> i'm carol free man a nature photographer, and my quest is to photograph all 483 threatened and endangered species in illinois. the habitat is surprised of all these flowers and hedges and grasses and you can't have one without the other. so that's why it's importan

the stature of van gogh's familiar brush stroke. it was back to the day it was painted. to his brother in the 5 th of july, he said that he painted the sunset the day before on the 4 th of july, 1888. and especially notable time in the dutch master's life. finding missing pieces in the jigsaw of such a portfolio helps us to understand how he develops such a distinctive style and formulates a picture of what makes van gogh such a influential member of the dump golden age. it was sold and disappeared from view until it was in the home of a norgenen. it was banished to the artic after suggestions it was a fake. now thea then sitty was verified. it is a once in a lifetime discovery. the painting will be on display here in after a stardom from the 24th of december. >> for the first time in ten years the people of moscow have been electing a mayor and the results came as a surprise president putin's critic got more than a quarter of the votes. steve reports. >> the real surprise was how many votes this candidate got. alex says that president putin shouldshould be in jail. he s

so we do want you to call them in. >> on the van gogh are they only available in the daytime? >> no, there is some at night. if there is an opera, a movie. that's fine oovment does it go up until 10:00 at night? >> yeah. we are working on a brochure so we don't have anything fancy. when we do get a brochure we want to work on a transit website. if anyone wants to work on a trip or you have information about a trip, you can give me a call. excuse me. 701-4440 or e-mail me at kate do the toren @ sf mta.com. >> do you have these in different languages? >> we will. we have our shop around brochures and our main languages, russian, spanish and chinese. i work in a hospital and that would be helpful. >> thank you. i have your e-mail. >> staff? any questions? thank you. next is a progress update for light rail system. what i'm going to do is give you a little bit of a background about the light rail system and talk about some of the things that will be coming in the future. i know many of you are very experienced and bob probably number one on this list. prior to the ada we were alre

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norwegian man who was told it wasn't a real van gogh.led the painting to the family attic for years. it was authenticated in part by a letter van gogh wrote to his letter about the painting. that painting that came out of the attic now valued about $50 million. i want to start searching my attic see if i have anything in there even worth $50. >> that van gogh you have is worth something. >> exactly. >> my gosh. >> we're talking about the fire on the east bay, of course, and a cooling week for us. >> which is good news. after the fire danger we had this weekend, we're looking at a cooling trend coming our way. here's a live look at oakland. the smoke was visible from the morgan fire earlier on this shot. the fog, the wind pattern is pushing it out. we'll have more on that cooler forecast in a few minutes. >>> man, jeff, i keep playing that "million second quiz" and keep losing. dang you, that game. let's get to sports. elvis presley night at the yard for the giants and rockies. jim harbaugh gets a call from the fashion police. that was re

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it's going well, we have expanded it which we call it van gogh shuttle for a group of individuals who are going to a social or cultural event. we are just rolling that out now and providing the individual request for agencies for groups and individuals who have gone out to museums and the zoo and community meetings. that's been working well. as part of expanding that shop around to the van gogh shuttle we've included a staff for the management specialist to take a look at the big picture of transportation in san francisco to seniors and people with disabilities and see if there are better ways to achieve efficiencies and coordinate and we are interviewing for that position and very excited to bring awe -- a new staff on board. the website has a new look. it's sf parra transit.com and we are planning on adding functionality to the website for parra transit taxi riders to have a portal where they can log on and look at their debit card and taxi transaction and also add value to their credit card online and being able to order tickets online. so coming soon. >> i hear that the scanner is

. >>> well, the world is now getting its first glimpse of a long-missing painting by vincent van gogh, completed in 1888, two years before the artist's suicide. it has been in an attic in norway assumed to be the work of another painter. it is the first full-sized van gogh discovered since 1928. >>> 50 years ago this very evening "nbc nightly news" became what it is today, a half hour-long newscast. to highlight the big roll out chet huntly and david brinkley interviewed president john f. kennedy. prior to that it was a 15-minute newscast. that was the industry's standard a half century ago. cbs was the first to go to a half hour. not to be outdone, nbc news followed a week later. >>> when we come back here tonight, what a recently discovered document can tell us about how much we've changed at school. >>> finally tonight this next story is for all those parents who proudly display bumper stickers saying their child is an honor student. in kentucky they have unearthed a century-old high school entrance exam that would make a lot of folks proud just to say their child got into high sch

the vincent van gogh museum unveiled the sunset to the world today.it was stored for years, thought to have been painted by someone else. >> a research investigation, and a reference to the painting from van gogh to his brother confirmed that the painting is the real deal. >> an israeli archeologist made a discovery at the temple mount. dozens of gold and silver coins dating back to the seventh century. the find also includes a gold medallion with a menorah etched to it. it may be the oldest torah ever found. >> thanks for watching aljazeera. as always, much more news at the top of the hour, but first, talk to aljazeera is next. >> >> ron paul former republican congressman, 3-time presidential candidate - he's opposed to american intervention in syria. >> i can't imagine any moral justification for us getting involved in another war. >> on domestic issues he favourites hands-off government. liber tarian - he's critical of both parties.

. >> a never before seen painting by vincent van gogh has surfaced.um unveiled the painting kept in the attic of a european home for years because the owner thought someone else had painted it. they say at an auction it would be worth 10s of millions of dollars, and that will do it for this edition of al jazerra news, i am morgan radford. thank you for watching and of course you can follow us any time at aljazerra.com and join the conversation because there is always more to it. i look forward to seeing you at 4:00 a.m.

among the 60,000 pieces here are the first van gogh ever acquired by an american museum. this famous monet, a work by the the flemish master breugle. >> why is it important to save this collection? >> ttys crown jewel of michigan culture. it's essential if detroit is going to recover -- >> graham beal directs the detroit institute of arts. he's working to save the art from the auction block. >> it's disturbing by a quirk of history that we have been put in this position. and although i firmly believe that the chances of anything ever been sold are very, very slim you can never tell. and so yes, it's a deep concern. >> at a diner just down the street from the museum, we met with ed mcneil. he negotiates contracts for 33 unions representing current and retired city workers. >> you don't say to people, that have worked so hard, you don't say to them, hey, i don't have anything for you. >> as far as he's concerned, the van goghs must go. if that's what it takes to pay the pensions. >> just a tragedy for anybody to even think you would put a piece of art over somebody's lives.

a long-lost vincent van gogh painting has now been discovered. "sunset at montmajour" is the dutch master's first full-size canvas to be identified in 85 years. the landscape painting dates back to 1888, and was unveiled today at the van gogh museum in amsterdam. it had been stored in an attic in norway for six decades after its owner was told it was a fake. the museum's director called it a "once-in-a-lifetime experience." >> it has from his most prominent period in his career, from his period in -- when he worked in the south of france in provence and it's during the period he painted the sun flowers, the yellow house, the bedroom, his most famous works. >> the newly discovered painting >> woodruff: the newly discovered painting will go on public display at the van gogh museum beginning september 24. still to come on the newshour, opening up elite colleges to low-income students; and the fight over guns in colorado. >> ifill: now, our look at expanding access to the country's most prestigious universities. it's part of our focus on inequality i

. >> coming up a new vincent van gogh painting unveiled more than 120 years after his death. >> anotherduring a weekend alligator hunt. how much this gator tipped scales and that is not all they caught. >> today's q and a is just head so i'm taking your questions. you can contact me on facebook.com/michael fibby abc 7 and on twitter i'll answers questions here live later. >> foremost of thus picture spells relief from mount tam, cooling fog pushing through golden gate. i'll have the accu-weather forecast coming up. >> live look at afternoon commute this is the mcarthur maze, you can see slow going there. better for folks heading back towards san francisco on the right side of the screen. back with more on abc 7 at kaiser permanente we've reduced serious heart attacks by 62%, which makes days with grandpa jack 100% more possible. join us at kp.org and thrive. >>> a group of gateo hunters shattered records for capture asking killing two of the largest alligators in state history. one gator weighed in 741 pounds, the other, 723 pounds. these guys were just massism not only the heaviest all

the van gogh itself to be worth $200,000.look at it in another town who could afford it. >> we can't afford the museum. that's one issue. it's one issue. the painting belongs to the people, and that's a small issue compared were going to. we have people who have moved out of detroit. there are things we have to do the change ourselves. we will come back again in order to make sure we are not in this kind of deficit in years to come. my children. john: sense to toward is broke how come you have six staffers workinfor you? >> i do not. when i began we had a budget of $600,000. right now were down the 230. add three people leave. i had three people now. one may be leaving sometime shortly. @%hn: youe website says you have aommunity reelected of liaison, six people. >> we have for right now. i can tell you right now. john: why do you have any? >> well, how do we get things done? the government is to work. people call our office. we have a constituent complained i can't answer the phone. we do need some person. john: thank you, co

the first van gogh to be discovered in 80 years is unveiled in amsterdam. >> hello, and welcome to the program. we begin with syria. in a moment how big is al-qaeda's presence there, and is president obama going to target their fighters? and then evidence, new evidence that the iranian involvement in the conflict, a video found on an iranian soldier inside syria. but first let's hear from president assad. the syrian leader has warned the u.s. of repercussions if it does an attack. >> expect everything, not necessarily through the government. the governments are not the only player in this region. you have different parties, different factions, different i, so you have to expect that. in another area where attacks caoccur, soldier go to hospital because of chemical weapons. we only have video and pictures and allegations. our forces, our police, our institutions don't exist how can you talk about attack if you don't have evidence. >> they have warning that an u.s. strike would simply help those who brought down the twin hours. he was talking with moscow's ally, russia, and they also hav

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it's a van gogh and had been sitting in an attic for 60 years because the owners thought it was a fake museum in amsterdam said the owner brought it to them in 2011 to be authenticated. the painting is the first full-size canvas painting by the dutch artist to be discovered since 1928. >>> and a teenager in south carolina is using her skills in photography to reach out to the homeless community. as chip reid reports it's a personal project that gained support along the way. >> reporter: 16-year-old victoria turner has wanted to own a business since she was 7. she loves taking pictures so she put together a plan for a photography business and entered her high school's entrepreneur competition. each contestant had to give back to the community. turner chose photographing homes families at no charge. >> everybody has some type of beauty and i just wanted to show that to the world and just make them feel great about themselves. >> reporter: turner's plan was big on doing good but short on making money. how would you describe the business? >> i would say it's not on the profit side it's mor

may grandmother took i am to see the first van gogh exhibit when he was young. apparently, it was considered my father is known for his sensitive to the light and color of a particular place. it's no coincide that those were titled to the places they were paint. all those places have a different quality of life. i'm going to show some works through the various periods of his career. during most of this time with the family was moving along with him until the time i got married in los angeles this although was before i was born in stanford this is entitled paling wallet circle in 1943. that is in 1949 and the next picture also were we lthd in 1948 where he was a student and teaching at the art institute. we moved to albuquerque this is from 1951 and this second one from 1950 in his masters show. he then accepted the only teaching job that accepted him in illinois. we moved there for one year. this picture is from 1953 and the second picture is number 6 which was also 1953. at the end of that academic were my parents move forward to berkley. the first picture is b

century, such as the mourners, cultures from the court of bergandy to the 19th century, including van gogh, and beyond master pieces. and she served as the assistant curator for the blockbuster, girl with the pearl earrings, including impressionists on the water and matice from sf mona to be honored later this year. we invited melissa to speak because he told me that his cloud series was inspired by growing up looking at dramatic skies in dutch landscape painting. welcome. >> thank you to everyone who came out this evening to the main branch of the public library, i felt like it was encased in a cloud with all of the fog and the rain and everything and so i have literally taken on this assignment with a great personal interest and i am seeing clouds everywhere. and when they first called one morning, and introduced herself and told me a little bit about this panel and this project i thought great, i know about clouds i see them every day and i work at the legend of honor, exposed to the sea with the massive mountains and clouds and i thought a piece of cake and i will just talk about cloud

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. >>> the van gogh museum in amsterdam is showing off a newly discovered painting by vincent van goght [ non-english language ] shows trees and skies and thick brush strokes. the museum direct says it belongs to a private collector and spent years in an attic in norway believed to be by and another artist. it's the first full size canvas by the dutch master discovered since 1928. >>> serena williams needed a third set to defeat victoria azarenka. it was the first time in the tournament she had lost a set and she was happy. this is the second straight u.s. open title for williams. also her 17th career grand slam title. >>> we're keeping an eye on the morgan hill fire this morning. take a look at this plume of smoke. firefighters have their work cut out for them. 500 will battle the flames. more evacuations issued overnight bringing the total to 100 homes. this is a look from our chopper 5 right now. the fire has burned 1500 acres making its push towards the summit of mount diablo. we know that the first air tankers will be going up within the next hour and so far there's no estimated d

may grandmother took i am to see the first van gogh exhibit when he was young.arently, it was considered my father is known for his sensitive to the light and color of a particular place. it's no coincide that those were titled to the places they were paint. all those places have a different quality of life. i'm going to show some works through the various periods of his career. during most of this time with the family was moving along with him until the time i got married in los angeles this although was before i was born in stanford this is entitled paling wallet circle in 1943. that is in 1949 and the next picture also were we

>>> showing off a long lost painting by vincent van gogh. wait until you hear where this art treasure spent years collecting dust. it is all "happening now." jon: back to our top story, the people who work for you, return to their jobs on capitol hill and the situation in syria is not the only looming crisis that lawmakers need to address. good monday morning to you, i'm jon scott. jenna: they have a full plate. jo yes they do. jenna: as do we. jon: a crazy one. >> , everybody, i'm jenna lee. good to see you on this monday. the first decision for congress is whether to give the president approval to punish the assad regime for using chemical weapons against its own people. securing those votes looks like an uphill battle for the administration especially in the house. despite one of the most intense lobbying efforts by the white house since the push for obamacare but in addition to syria there are other critical issues on the agenda for congress. they include passing a temporary spending bill to prevent a government shutdown. raising the deb

now six decades and a lot of dust later, experts say it's not a faux van gogh at all.t at mount majeaux" painted in 1988. he apparently thought he mailed this one in and gave it to his brother. the last discovery of this magnitude was in 1928. >>> make sure to follow me on twitter. and also at the lead cnn and check out our show page for videos, blogs, extras. that's it for "the lead." i'll be back at 11:00 p.m. eastern for a special on the crisis in syria. i now turn you over to wolf blitzer who is at the white house. >>> jake, thanks very much. happening now, a "the situation room" special report. crisis in syria. i'm wolf blitzer reporting live from the white house, where i have just interviewed the president of the united states on a critically important day. what sounded like an off-handed comment from the secretary of sta state, john kerry, now potentially a way out for the united states and for syria. just ahead, the possible, possible new alternative to military action. a number of key diplomatic voices now seem willing to consider. >>> meantime, the president

is confirmed as the work of famous artist-- vincent van gogh.. the painting is called "sunset at montmajour". a report by the independent says it was discovered in a norwegian attic and is likely worth tens of millions of dollars. koch industries is buying electronic component maker, molex. the $7.2 billion deal represents $38.50 per share. the stock closed 31% higher on the news. molex will continue to be an independent unit of koch industries. it is the latest acquisition by the powerful and politically connected koch brothers -- charles and david. in a statement the co-chairman of molex said the decision was "difficult" given the company's 75-year history but that it represented "outstanding benefits" for stakeholders. it's a sign of the times: citigroup is taking its workers off the chicago board of trade's grain and financial trading floors at the end of the month. most of the staffers will shift into citi's office in chicago. this action is the latest in an ongoing exodus from the floor... since most trading firms use electronic platforms.

century, such as the mourners, cultures from the court of bergandy to the 19th century, including van gogh, and beyond master pieces. and she served as the assistant curator for the blockbuster, girl with the pearl earrings, including impressionists on the water and matice from sf mona to be honored later this year. we invited melissa to speak because he told me that his cloud series was inspired by growing up looking at dramatic skies in dutch landscape painting. welcome. >> thank you to everyone who came out this evening to the main

> a painting that sat in an attic in norway for six decade has been authenticated as a vincent van gogh. it is the first to be discovered of the artist since 1928. >>> >>> last week we told you about the feline mayor of the small alaskan town. he was brutal attacked by a constituent. he is doing much better and has been released from the veterinary hospital. good for mayor stubs. >>> now, for business we turn to kayla tausche. good morning, kayla. >> the market higher and future markets stocks rallying monday, as well, the dow posting its best day in eight weeks and first triple digit gain since august 1st. investors reacted to positive economic data from china and the russian proposal for a possible diplomatic solution in syria. jpmorgan reached a $300 million settlement to resolve accusations it steered homeowners into overpriced property insurance. the settlement also involves insurance firm assurant but the big news, apple is expected to unveil two new iphone models at and a recent, the iphone 5c is a cheaper version with a plastic case and will come in five colors. we're all lookin