van gogh has to wait 126 years to get his ears fixed. [cheering and applause] now, according to the "eartist," diemut strebe, the still-alive still life was created by using cells from the great, great grandson of vincent's brother theo to grow the ear and a 3-d printer to shape it. and if you think paper jam is tough, try clearing out an ear jam. nation, this is the most successful use of bioengineering in art since pablo picasso created that five-boobed lady so he could paint her. it could very well usher in a whole new movement. think about it. using this same technology, we might finally be able to see what this guy's face looked like before it was mangled in a horrible apple-picking accident. or even better, even better, we can finally glimpse the venus de milo as she was meant to be. and the best part about this exhibit is that visitors can talk to it. >> visitors to a german museum are waiting in line for hours, literally to ask questions through a microphone to vincent van gogh's re-grown ear. think of your question for van gogh'

en estados unidos que estÁn acostumbrados a que la gasolina baje entre mayo y julio este aÑo no van goghÁs alto del 2008 inquieta a fermÍn. >>> hace un mes me costaba unos 40 dÓlares y sale 55 dolares para llenar el tanque. >>> son varios factores que influyen en este aumento el incremento de la violencia, en irak, segundo mayor exportador de petrÓleo de la opep. disparÓ los precios del crudo, ayer grupos insurgentes atacaron una refinerÍa en el pais. >>> el futuro se toma un poco de precauciÓn, en cuanto a que pueda haber problemas serios histÓricamente los aumentos mÁs precipitados de la gasolina, ocurren en tiempos de crisis, como durante la toma de rehenes estadounidenses en irÁn en 1979, y el inicio de la guerra con irak en el 2003. hasta ahora el impacto ha sido menor en california, el estado mÁs poblado. >>> california importa aproximadamente 9% del crudo que se usa en el estado. >>> pero en 14 estados incluyendo nevada y arizona la situaciÓn es otra el aumento del combustible en el Último mes ha sido de 4% en michigan y en illinois. el galÓn estÁ casi 20 centavos mÁs caro hoy que

this ear was created using living cells from a van gogh relative.york. think of your question for van gogh's ear, please. >> an earful. >> oh. >> you're better than that. >> you're the one that gets it, usually. >> thanks, lara. >> you're welcome. >>> now, to "the heat index." first up, will smith reportedly in talks to tackle the nfl's concussion problem. a hot-button issue right now. even president obama is raising the topic. he did at a youth event last week. "variety" reporting that smith will play the forensic neuropathologist who first discovered the brain disease, cte, that brought awareness to the public. cte has been found in athletes with a history of brain trauma. the untitled project is one of a number of hollywood projects revolving around concerns of concussions in the nfl. if the nfl thinks this is going away, it is not. >> yep. >> it is really having an impact. >> we're getting the message out. >> a discussion. >> not going away. >> one of the things we said the headlines of the time, one of the most popular stories on "the times" we

a boat on a lake by rehn wire, grabs by van gogh. in both it's the contrast between oranges and blues and greens that makes them beautiful. for many hundreds of years artists struggle to recreate colours in the natural world all around them. >> colour could be difficult. it was hard, it was not easy to achieve. we see colour around us and think of it as being an easy thing. we go to a hardware shop and see it on the screens. it was not straightforward for the painters in the collection to find the colours they wished to create the dazzling effect in paint. >> reporter: artists looked for colours and weird and wonderful places. red, the colour of love, blood and passion. it came from crushed beetles and tree bark. >> this is an exhibition of western paintings. european art did not exist in a slack um. for -- vacuum. for centuries, the purest blue came from afghanistan. and this, so pressures is desirable was the blue that the stone was more expensive than gold. >> reporter: the stones were traded, taken to baghdad, aleppo, venice by s

contrast and arteic company, you will see the presentation in the let, it looks like a modern urban van gogh sky, like the starry night but in an urban, so we feel we're bringing together many, many elements of what's going on right now, plus the fact we're situated yards from one of the biggest landmarks in our city which is the old mint building and certainly around the corner from the marsconi center so we're excited and we hope you like what you see, i'm going to let k.p. talk about his vision as an artist. >> thank you very much for letting me be here, so i started photography a few years ago and i have electrical engineering degree with [inaudible] and computers and i have done the consulting work and that takes me to travel to this beautiful country all around, you know, east, west, north, south, and i happen to come across a camera three years ago and it caught my attention, what best place than san francisco to explore, and i got into it, and my analytical mind got into it and with the creative side, you know, once i'm done with my work, i live nearby, i just come to san francisco,

. >>> vincent van gogh, his ear cut off almost 100 years ago. >>> the last of the and a hal ne talkerscome up. came one a code based on the navajo language based to stop the japanese. it was never broken. the code-talkers are credited with being crucial in the battle for iwo jima. nez was 93. >>> hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected in normandy france to mark the 70th anniversary of d-day. calling the last journey the last reunion. paul beban has their story. >> hey good morning bill, paul beban. >> bill caldwell is 86. but the united states army thinks he's 88 or maybe even 89. >> that's you when you enlisted? >> that's because on august, 1943, when he was only 15 years old, caldwell lied to a united states army recruiter. >> what's a pai paratrooper? i didn't know what that was. >> we train you and we drop you behind enemy lines and if you survive you get to come home. i said i'll take it. >> at the tender age of 16 caldwell leaped into the area over normandy, 156,000 allied troops would land in france on d day. 73,000 of those troops were american. many wouldn't live to se

. >> a represently can of van gogh's ear made of living cells on display at an art museum. this and other headlines around the world. >> some human remains were discovered in a septemberic tank on the site of an or manage. >> counting votes in a presidential election, but the surprise maybe the margin of victory for bashar al assad. voting was extended by several hours to handle the massive influx of voters. opposition in the u.s. call the election. >> we should expect a result perhaps at early as the end of the day. it's a for gone conclusion. so many people calling yesterday's election a forum of celebration for bashar al assad, the opposition saying half the country was forced to vote for him while the other attacked by his government forces. there's a real fear in the west and by the opposition that he'll use this victory in order to continue to crush the opposition and continue to refuse to negotiate or to give in politically. >> the u.s. says assad has "no more credibility today than he did yesterday." that's how they feel about this vote, and yet we've seen images of