jerry spires is a very good beginning to life. but how did you accomplish what you accomplished with this handicap? you went to harvard. you made a major invention. you've led a rich life. you're happily married. >> well, i told you, the centerpiece is sue, and then my family, my children, paul and jimmy and katherine have stuck by me, and these two guys, who as you say, i was really fortunate enough to meet when we all started columbia together. but, you know, it's not all black or dark. i don't want to leave that impression with you, because when you're not distracted by visual images, you develop a life within your mind. so i can see you now, eric, the way i saw art back before i was 19 here in this city, and you look pretty damn good, you know. (laughter) >> charlie: you are why we do this television program, so thank you. let me turn to carla. let me give you an overview so we understand exactly what it is we're talking about in terms of the human eye. >> well, vision is really miraculous process, and to hear about losing it

and sue and my family and my college roommates art and jerry spire-- he was actually a witness to myyssey, who's been with me and for me since we both entered columbia college together. we launched an effort a few years ago to end blindness by 2020. >> rose: turning to arts and cult culture, renewed attention is being paid to the intersection between art and adolf hitler's third reich. even hollywood weighed in, search for art work stolen by the nazis is the subject of "monuments men." >> hitler and his group had decide not only were they going to kilt everybody but they were going to systematically take all of their history with them. >> rose: and an exhibition at the new york gallery documents hit her's war on art he considered degenerate. >> before the acts of violence against people, the nazis committed acts of violence against art. rene price is the director of the gallery staging an exhibition called, "degenerate art." >> the interest and curiosity about this dark moment in german history is huge. it's this confrontation that has never been done before of showing the art that w