giving the generous gift is leonard lauder, he is the heir to the estee lauder cosmetic fortune. now, the collection includes 78 paintings, drawings and sculptures including picasso and makes lauder only the 24th person ever to give a gift greater than $1 billion. >> that is staggering. >>> when we come back, an update on our severe spring weather, brush fires where weeks ago there was snow. >>> and in california, a chance of showers thanks to a friendly whale. stay with us. see life in the best light. outdoors, or in. transitions® lenses automatically filter just the right amount of light. so you see everything the way it's meant to be seen. maybe even a little better. visit your eyecare professional today to ask about our newest lenses, transitions vantage and transitions xtractive lenses. experience life well lit. ask which transitions adaptive lens is best for you. it also repels most ticks before they can attach. the leading brand kills, but doesn't repel. a tick that isn't repelled or killed may attach and make a meal of us. get veterinarian recommended k9 advantix ii! we d

leonard lauder, son of estee lauder gave a gift to new york's metropolitan museum of art. picasso from the early 20th sent acubist period is one of the largest philanthropic donations in history. it will significantly impact the met's standing as the foremost chronicler of modern art. the museum will launch a special exhibition from lauder's donation in 2014. that will do it for us today. thank you so much for joining me. next week, what the headline about the future of the news business? how digital consumers could stop the presses. each week keep it rite here >> does glicht deprive her kids of carb. we have the answer straight from the mom of speaking of mom halle calls the pregnancy biggest surprise of her life. >> hi everybody. welcome to "access hollywood". this is weekend edition. i'm shaun robin sochbility get to all that in just a moment but firs first. by now you have likely seen clips from lindsay candid and at times uncomfortable chat with david letterman. but now we have got her mom and dad's reaction. >> lindsay lohan on the today show this morning. appearance

. >> warner: philanthropist leonard lauder-- an heir to the estee lauder estate-- is giving the met hisire collection of cubist art. the 78 paintings, drawings and sculptures are valued together at more than $1 billion. they include 33 pieces by pablo picasso, like "woman in an arm chair" from 1913. 17 works by georges braque, including "bottle of rum" from 1914 and other major pieces by fernand leger and juan gris. for more on the collection and itsignificance, turn to rebecca rabinow, a curator from the met's department of modern and contemporary art. she joins us from san francisco. thank you for joining us. what is the-- how unusual and how important is this bequest, both as a body of work and in itself, and also for the met? >> it's extraordinary in every possible way. on the one hand, you have eye collector who has really focused so intently, and so in-depth at one particular moment bung the best of the best. so it's an extraordinary collection. and in giving it to the metropolitan museum of art, mr. lauder has transformed our holdings. especially the 20th century art. he understa

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. >>> cosmetics tycoon leonard lauder is also feeling generous to the tune of more than $1 billion. that's the estimated value of his vast art collection which he's promised to new york's metropolitan museum. >>> segregation still exists in america. and it is in the form of a high school prom. >>> plus, a car vandal caught on tape causing $500,000 worth of damage. >>> what did tiger woods say about his career as he heads into the masters on his winning streak? next. >>> now to some other stories that caught our eye. an oklahoma car salesman is fuming after a vandal caused a half million dollars of damage at his dealership. security crams were rolling catching the vandal scratching several lexry models including porsche and maserati. >>> in florida this man couldn't believe police ticketed him for running backwards. >> somebody is jogging backwards doing the right thing, that's uncalled for. >> miami police cited the runner for obstructing traffic after he refused to backpedal on his running style. he says the ticket will not stop him. >>> finally the georgia chapter of the naacp has

t heir to the estee lauder fortune has donated $1 billion worth of art to the new york metropolitan museumart. it's been called the four most collection in the world. joining me now to talk about this is sheena. good morning to you. >> good morning, alison. >> so, tell me, what does this donation mean to the met? >> well, i cannot overemphasize how thrilling it is for us to be able to contemplate having this collection within the met encyclopedic collection. it really does transform. this is a word that has been used many times and it's completely true. it's not rhetoric. it really transforms our collection and particularly focuses on the modern and contemporary aspect of the collection. and, of course, you know, we live in anige whe age where we many artists living now and it is a great gift for them, too, to be able to look back a whole century, really, for the moment that modern art began. >> but, how unusual is a donation of this size? >> it's exceedingly unusual. and, in fact, a philanthropic gift of this kind is really rare nowadays. joins the great tradition of early american philan

the son of cosmetics founder es stee lauder gave a gift worth a billion dollars to the metropolitan museumart this week. his collection of 788 works of art including 33 by picasso. it is one of the largest donations in history. it will also impact the met's standing as the foremost chronicle of modern art. they will launch an exhibition from his donation in 2014. thamplts will do it for us for today, thank you for joining me. next week, what's the headline of the future of the news business. how digital consumers could stop the presses. keep it here we are "on the money." have a good week, everybody. i will see you next weekend. the little details. the little moments that make life truly amazing. that's why southwest worked hard on the little and big things to build a better in-flight experience featuring access to wi-fi, live tv, and updated cabins. getting there just got better. we are southwest. welcome aboard.

cosmetics mogul leonard lauder announced he will donate his cubist artworks including 33 picassos tovalued at $1 billion. mr. lauder said of his incredible eye, "you can't put together a good collection unless you are focused, disciplined, tenacious and willing to pay more than you can possibly afford." >> oh, by the way. >> the donations -- yeah, i think. >> one or two. >> he is an amazing guy, though. >> he is amazing. the met said this donation is truly transformational for them. >> oh, yes. >> really terrific and we applaud him. >> that is great. >> we also applaud sam champion for his wonderful weather today. >> all right. from the audience in times square every day, let me tell you, this line goes on and on for miles that way and it goes on and on for miles that way, and there is an entire setup of professional photographers poking into the window at times square, so something big is going on there, probably celebrities coming. let's get to the boards, one or two things we want to share with you. we start with a live shot out of chicagoland. more than spring showers for you and

museum officials say the lauder collection covers a period that is currently underrepresented in its current exhibit. look at that, folks. >> because he owns it. >> yeah, there you go. now everybody is going to get a chance to see it. winning the lottery. what could be better than that? maria carreiro thought she won $40,000 in a canadian lotto game. it turns out that her winning ticket was actually worth $40 million. one of maria's two daughters crying there. she was simply overcome with emotion. >> this still hasn't sunk in that my dad works so hard and we've been struggling so much, and it's just -- $40 million! that's so much money. >> but she's consoling her, right? >> this is the best part. >> mom is dancing a jig on the side. maria plans on buying herself and her daughters new homes and brand-new cars. first she is going to take the entire family to disney world. that is one heck of a story. right? 40,000 turns into 40 million. i bet you would love to advise them. >> i would. what i would say after they go to disney world and buy houses and cars most important thing is to thin

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my answer is there were some of us who tried to but in order to get the message heard further and lauder, i wrote the book. question here. >> my colleague from the naval war college is a noted counterterrorism expert. a little afraid of his question. >> thank you for your cogent remarks. i find it incredibly fitting we're having this discussion ten years to the day after operation iraqi freedom where we are seeing a great deal of technical operational excellence by the u.s. military but calling it anything other than a strategic failure would be kind. for it is easy to fall feed join the bush administration and civilian leadership but there were a lot of failures by senior military to think strategically. we had serious reform especially at the naval war college after vietnam in an effort to get it right next time. twofold question. do you think the climate is moving not only do to your work -- and the nearly 70s it took a good admiral much smaller institution. what would it take now? >> great question. to take in two parts, in 2005 when it was clear iraq was a strategic failure, there w

a lot of people recognize it at the time, but they tend to be drowned out by lauder forces. i want to get on a soapbox about climate change, but obviously fossil fuels is the classic example where we are persuaded because of the short-term apparent benefits it brings that it is a good thing and it is very, very difficult than the political process to think because a partially and to take a long-term view. it does nike you elected, for sure. >> you said what i was about to say. >> rate. we have about five minutes left, little less. i saw a question of rear-ended back. no? we have one here. the front. wherever. >> i will wait for the microphone. >> us try to get a couple of questions and requests. >> brian, how would i try to discover the oceans, barely learning how to fish. you were stating how we lost touch with using our instincts on discovery, you know, the land verses the notion of a mallet is all one. how someone would try to get in tune with that. by mid the fishing? may be actually getting canoeing or something? >> we only have a couple of minutes left. so this is it -

lauder was a great classic painting collector, paintings he collected over more than 40 years.icasso, george brock. and it shows that, you know, most of the great art today is either in museums like the met or it's in the hands of private collectors who are now in their 70s and 80s. and the big game for these museums is who can get what. you know, you bet that some other museums would've loved to have this collection. it was a big win for the met. >> robert, you know, i'm going to want the dirt on all of this. hopefully now you're going to be prepared whenever i do this. but he gets to write off how much? he gets to write off $1 billion, does he not? >> reporter: well, it's kind of interesting. i was looking at this deduction limit that obama was proposing. >> well, you've got to do it now. >> well, let's say -- well, if it's capped at 28%, it's a difference of about $100 million. if he is allowed to write it off at 36.6% versus 26%. it's a $100 million difference for him. but you're right, it's a about a third, a little more than a third of a billion dollars he gets to write o

was extremely lauder to but she said she has marijuana every night.she smokes marijuana every night. and she has two kids, a husband, you know, she is -- has all these wonderful values and i believe her. i wrote her back this. i said, you know, i smoke a cigar and a pipe. i have since high school. and i have smoked in front of my children from birth. they're very healthy, incidentally. they don't appear to be dying of second hand smoke anymore i am from my parents' second hand smoke. i said i'm curious. would you smoke your marijuana in frontoff our children like i smoke my cigar? i didn't get a response. and i'm not saying that she doesn't have one. but i didn't -- i can't give you her response. everyone knows there's a difference between marijuana and tobacco or even -- my father had his scotch on the rocks every night. but i would have been a different person if my father had a joint every night. >> host: final comment from viewer. jillian, asks: do you ever regret not running for office? >> guest: yes. >> host: will you ever run for office? >> gue