stuart: 20 to $30 million, norman rockwell classic.u sold a picture of two boxes, one black, one white. i am very sorry, $85 million. would you pay $20 million or $30 million for that one? >> i didn't know i was still on. what i pay that? yes. i am going to make an offer, all little embarrassing. i was going to make an offer but don't know how high my amex goes up to. >> we must talk after this. stuart: i want to show picture of thomas moran's grand canyon, another piece of american art, you are looking 8 to 12 million, a beautiful picture. >> painted in 1904. he spent a lot of time in the american west in the late 1800'ss drawing sketches before color photography and painted these majestic sublime scenes for the grand canyon. stuart: return to my theme, $745 million in one night for contemporary parts but much lower prices for these classics, norman rockwell classic. explain yourself. >> nor rockwell, the highest painting sold by norman rockwell went for $47 million so he has high price point objects that cell and his paintings in the

. >>> a norman rockwell painting called the rookie sold at action for more than $2 million.round and he told lee cowen the amazing story of how he was drafted. >> i was 18. >> oh, my goodness. you were the rookie. >> reporter: sherman safford's moment of immortality began at his high school lunchline. i was hungry. it was noon time. i went down to the cafeteria. sitting down next to somebody he was smoking a pike. >> he had to be somebody. >> he had to be somebody. nobody smoked in that building. >> reporter: that pipe-smoking fellow was norman rockwell, the artist famous for celebrating small town america. he was finishing an oil painting for a 1957 cover of the "saturday evening post." the topic, baseball. the scene, the arrival of a young rookie in the boston red sox locker room. the players were all real, but rockwell needed a cheerful nobody, so he plucked safford out of that massachusetts cafeteria and paid him 120 bucks to play the hayseed. >> what did he see in you? >> i think he saw a raw bone kid, athletic, skinny. attention right off the bad. the hair was pretty s

-day gra then we wipe to end tag (we dont see talent at the end >> pelley: finally tonight, a norman rockwell rookie" sold at auction today for $22.5 million. rockwell died in 1978, but "the rookie" is still around. he told lee cowan the amazing story of how he was drafted. >> i was 18. >> oh, my goodness. you were the rookie. >> reporter: sherman safford's moment of immortality began in his high school lunch line. >> i was hungry. it was noontime. i went down to the cafeteria, and sitting next to a friend of mine was a fellow smoking a pipe. >> reporter: you knew he was somebody. >> oh, he had to be somebody. nobody smoked in that building. >> reporter: that pipe-smoking fellow was norman rockwell, the artist famous for celebrating small-town america. he was finishing an oil painting for a 1957 cover of the "saturday evening post." the topic-- baseball. the scene-- the arrival of a young rookie in the boston red sox locker room. the players were all real, but rockwell needed a cheerful nobody, so he plucked safford out of that cafeteria in pittsfield, massachusetts, and paid him 120 bucks to

norman rockwell for $200. all right. here's jimmy to start us off.n 1916, "boy with baby carriage" earned norman rockwell $75 and his first of more than 300 covers for this magazine. julia. what is the saturday evening post?

a private buyer has purchased norman rockwell's the rookie for almost $23 million at christie's. it shows ted williams and other veterans as a new player arrives for spring training. >>> the irs is owed $3.3 billion of back taxes from 318,000 federal workers. surprising there. >>> some top stories for you, there is new video of a woman barely escaping her car seconds before it is smashed by a train. look at that right there. you can see the conductor scrumabling before the impact. the driver was hit by debris, but not seriously hurt. >>> and it is the catch of a lifetime. dramatic video out of china. a 1-year-old plummets from a second story window. thankfully these good samaritans were ready to help. good job. >>> brian williams was delivering the commencement address at a high school. he offered words of advice to hill high and went on to mention his most recent project. >> you'll need grit. you'll need character. a lot of good educators have worked really hard for four years to make sure character is part of your learning here. exactly 32 hours ago there was a knock on my hote

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. >> reporter: wolfboro, new hampshire looks like the kind of place norman rockwell would go on vacationint new england town, a tidy white picket fence picture of americana on the banks of lake minute sake. republicans outnumber democrats 2-1, and going to the town today, i find residents struggling with damage control. >> they want to boycott the town. they've been coming and demonstrating in the town. >> reporter: it all springs from the revelation last week, one of the town's three police commissioners admitted calling the president the "n" word. robert copeland at first refused to apologize or resign, leaving this normally quiet tourist town to take the heat. when the story hit the local paper, the editor says reaction was intense. >> they really got worked up about it. >> reporter: immediately, local officials distanced themselves from copeland. the wolfboro town manager wrote town officials are appalled, calling it reprehensible. the police chief reported being inundated with phone calls that were vile, obscene, and threatening, saying copeland's words do not represent the views or

. >> we had ruby bridges visit the white house not long ago, because we had the norman rockwell painting in louisiana. and the president stood there with her, and he said, ruby, because of your courage at the age of 5 or 6, i'm here today. >> president obama is the biproduct of americaaries turbulent history. all that came before led to him. and his historic presidency. and president obama believes he's not done yet making history. not by a long shot. >> we don't know how the american people, the american historians will judge president obama, because every president gets judge in a relation to events. >> he's secured in history as the first african-american president, but i think that his goal is to be a great president who is also african-american. >> obama entered office at a time of grave crisis. four years later he sought re-election with a record of accomplishments, but also partisan frustrations, much of it drebirected by his enemies. >> when he ran in 2008, senator obama was just this blank slate for most people. you know, and he could paint this beautiful vision of the country f

norman rockwell was always a great painter but because he didn't fit the fashion of the times he didn't >> kind of like gold. not going to earn a return. people are comparing him to andy warhol. walk into a room and there's a rockwell on the wall you know what it is. you also know it costs many millions of dollars. there is this prestige factor? and price -- >> guggenheim did a retrospective, george lucas owns them and spielberg. >> the stars align. >> bring the glitter into it, you can create a valuable artist. >> if you have the means to get these to line up. i'm not saying go out and buy an artist that nobody likes thinking it's going to soar in pricep. that's a risky proposition. fascinating american story how an underdog like this can be the darling of the art world. >> do one of the great jim stewart books in the art market then get back to me. that would be a good read if you spent time on you. >> have a great weekend. enjoy the holiday. jim stewart from the times. >> up next a pharma stock nearly doubling in value. could have huge implications for the industry. more on that when

a recently discovered norman rockwell painting is expected to sell for more than $2 million at auction this month. the painting is so valuable because it's a rare self-portrait of rockwell burning the american flag while kicking a dog. [ light laughter ] he had a very short dark period. this is kind of amazing. over the weekend, a pair of twins in ohio were born holding hands. this is just a guess, but i'm betting their last name is lannister. [ scattered cheers ] that's a very good "game of thrones joke." i'm sorry there aren't more "game of thrones fans" here. [ laughter ] we are gonna wait a minute for all the "game of thrones" fans at home to stop laughing. [ laughter ] and i think we're good. this is just insane. a new report found that cocaine use in britain is so high -- cocaine use is so high in britain that it has contaminated their drinking water. if this fact makes you sad, have some british drinking water. [ laughter ] you'll feel much better. [ talking very fast ] "i was super upset about that but now i'm like, it's fine. what do i care?" [ laughter ] earlier this year, th

. >> reporter: these are scenes from american family life that general mills commissioned norman rockwellt in 1938. but households today are looking less and less like these images from the last century. >> the difference between family lives in 1965, let's say, and today is enormous. >> reporter: johns hopkins' sociology professor andrew churnen has been writing about the american family for over three decades. >> we've just lived through a huge period of social change, is you know what? there's no reason to think it's at its end. i think it's still going on. >> reporter: in fact, the change is unprecedented. marriage recently hit an all-time low. but to those still tying the knot, more than 15% of new marriages are interracial or interethnic. as for raising kids, one-parent homes are on the rise. and the number of same-sex couples with children, though small, is the highest ever recorded. >> ah, dinnertime. in the 1950s, the mess edge was there's only one kind of family that's okay. and that's the married familia la "leave it to beaver." >> why do you say that? ell, they don't have to b

emotions with feel good pictures of puppies and kittens by the by way of words they try to paint a norman rockwellkind of picture that's going to make us invite this saint like corporate person to dinner with our families well a word of advise if you do invite that corporate person over for dinner do. don't allow him around your small children and certainly count the silver settings before this corporate person leaves your house most importantly recognize that the mother teresa character that the us supreme court tries to sell you on is really a character closer to freddie krueger as this court expands the constitutional protections of this poor misunderstood end of the known as the corporate person they should also spend some time expanding avenues that allow us to do what we would do to any psychopath who harms our family we put that psychopath in handcuffs we throw that psychopath either in an institution or in prison joining me now for more on this is david haynes managing attorney for the cochran firm in d.c. and baltimore they did i got it i got to tell you what's happening right now is thes

these norman rockwell originals would fetch millions. >> sort of like the uncle sam i need you. >> reporterored in giant rolling metal racks. >> this is the story of the army. this is the american people's story. >> reporter: soldiers capturing their experiences from world war i through afghanistan. the giveaway that this is recent is the american flag and the yankees logo. but the most striking items at all, art scenes from the nazis in world war ii so it couldn't be used to inspire hate again. this was basically stabbed by an american. >> that right there, that's a symbol of victory over the nazis. >> reporter: a massive room of hidden american treasures. >> it's part of our national identity. >> reporter: this place is massive. and a testament to the men and women who serve. stunning how much you can find under one roof. the thing they want most is an american long rifle from the american revolutionary war. a private foundation is trying to raise tens of millions of dollars to get a museum built. they already have a site picked out, natalie and willie. this is living history and they wan