exactly. ♪ >> hey. >> i hung out with vincent van gogh. st that is what you might have said if you saw me walking down the street with robert reynolds'. he looks exactly like vincent van gogh's. >> you really do. >> that is what they say. >> i met up i met up with them in new york city's west village for some coffee. he loves coffee, cigarettes and absent. i wanted to see if robert was the real thing's. >> i have always been told by people. once or twice a week. let me know. >> he looks so much like a young man go for someone snapped a picture of him while riding the subway putting a side-by-side with a picture of van gogh's and it went viral. >> i was on the train a month ago and someone snapped a picture of me's. it it just kind of went crazy. 2 million views i think. >> now he has his own show. the producers of the show he told me that the show is basically a collision of the old world meeting the modern new world. >> what it is basically is an knew series that captures vincent van gogh and current times in new york's. he could be some b

finally, you guys, a brooklyn man has become an overnight celebrity for his uncanny resemblance to vincent van gogh the man, "what?" [ laughter ] ladies and gentlemen, this is the 8g band. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: how are we doing, 8g band? he cut his ear off. vincent van gogh cut his ear off, so that guy -- well anyways, i don't know. hey, this is a heads up. this is a public service announcement. mother's day on sunday. everybody hip to that? so just as the window is closing on being able to get those flowers there in time. i've already given up on that part of being a son, because here's the thing. i'm a good son. i really believe that in my heart. my brother, who's my only other sibling, is an excellent son. so much so that i will admit i kind of just quit trying. because every now and then -- i feel like every other mother's day i remember to send my mom flowers. my brother just has an autosend -- he has an account with the florist and he sends flowers to my mother once a month. so she just gets them once a month just because he's the best and he loves her and she's constantly remind

. >>> a vincent van gogh painting fetched $66 million in a new york auction. price tag since 1988. it features trees in autumn. a collector won it in a bidding war with five potential buyers. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," the isis threat in america after the texas shooting, plus the ancient tactic that can help you fight insomnia. >>> willie nelson chats about his new memoir and won high time at the white house. that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. >>> in the news police are on the scene of a triple shooting that happened overnight in the fair hill section of philadelphia. one person is dead. find out what police know about this incident. >>> hello, good morning i'm ukee washington. >>> i'm erika von tiehl. also the front of the vacant house collapseness point breeze overnight on the same day that the the marries talking about how the city is tackling this problem. >>> students at rutgers are looking to make changes to their mar cot find out why they say the

. >>> a vincent van gogh painting fetched $66 million in a new york auction. price tag since 1998. it features trees in autumn. an asian collector won the piece in a bidding war with five potential buyers. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," the isis threat in america after the texas shooting, plus the ancient tactic that can help you fight insomnia. >>> willie nelson in studio 57 chats about his new memoir and won high time at the white house. that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. h ook out there at the golden gate bridge this very early morning, at 4:30, not too many cars out, one car. [ laughter ] >> that was it. >> good morning, it is wednesday, may 6. i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. it's quiet. time for traffic and weather. >> it's quiet because it was cinco de mayo last night. >>> we are recovering from the deep marine layer. patchy fog at the coast around the san mateo coastline mainly. 43 santa rosa 50, in san jose. it's in the low

he was riding the d train in brooklyn and somebody said he bore a striking resemblance to vincent van goght somebody snapped a picture and put it online. it took on a life of its own. when he found out about it he decided to have a little fun with it. he put on the whole getup to make sure he looked like him. in that picture, okay, dead ringer. >> he's playing the part. he sent a picture. red dit, you're awesome. thanks for making had him famous. >> he's famous now. okay. >> compare on is pretty good. >> i wouldn't have put it together on my own. that beard is probably nasty too, right? >> i'm assuming. >> i'm just assuming. i'm sorry. >> how much of a dude do you think he is? that's a big question with this new website, what's your dude barometer i guess. >> what does that mean. >> i don't know. we'll show you. >> you take a picture and then it rates how much of a dude you are. ben stiller apparently is 65% dude. so basically it goes through and it rates how dude me. >> what does that mean. >> is that kanye? is he 96%. >> t.j. is he 99? i can't see the graphic. >> >>> this morning on "wor

he's a dead ringer for van gogh. >> when he's dressed like that. >> but this guy gets stopped all the time. this photo -- >> and they say, are you vincentctures. nobody asked him on that one. they took it. 2 million hits on reddit. the resemblance is uncanny. no family connection. though robert may want to double-check that, considering the painting, let's go back to the painting, there it is. that painting done in 1888 just sold this week for $66 million. >> really? >> robert, we hope there's some lost family tie for you. meanwhile, you're an internet sensation. >>> who here is good at ping-pong? >> i love how we weren't supposed to see them setting up the ping-pong table. >> we do magic tricks. a little ping-pong. now i don't have a paddle. i thought i was good. then i saw this. guys, check this out. possibly the world's greatest rally in the history of the game. >> ooh. ooh! >> oh. >> and they keep going. >> no way. >> wow. >> oh, my gosh. >> unbelievable. in the red, number one player in the world. against the eighth-ranked player. in the world championship. this is a masterpiece of play. the international table tennis federation ca

anyone else see vincent van gogh? look at him. w. >> you settle down there. >> because he looks pretty good. >> obviously it's not him, al. >> but don't you think it looks like him? >> it could be him. you never know. >> oh my gosh. >> you know i just flew for 20 hours to be here. >> you're a trooper. >> that's why we're being so kind. >> that is robert. he's often mistaken for van gogh. after that photo went viral, he started to dress the part. he even covers his ear. >> wow. >> all right. few weeks ago we talked about a food trend called matcha. a tea leaf powder. we gave it a try. let's just say it wasn't a cup of tea. >> oh, my god. it's bitter. >> oh! >> you guys all think it's bitter. >> you're not going to like it. >> i just wanted to spit when it came back. >> we didn't like it. someone has a beef with us. their company supplied that. jessica is here now with some tea she made herself. she says she'll change our minds for good. hi, jessica. how are you? >> good. >> must have been fun watching that segment? >> i actually lik

. >>> the painting vincent van gogh created while working with paul it was sold at sotheby's, came inieve it or not below the record for a van gogh which stands at 82.5 million dollars. that had sunflowers in it. the one that sold for that much. >>> british citizens heading to the polls in election that could mean a new leader and new political direction for the country. a few of the issues rising up, fish, bacon and beer! joining me now from lees england, jason pharrell, give us a sense on the ground. >> we're here at the last fiscal rally, at this campaign, in a small theater containing a thousand people. fairly small for an end rally of any campaign in comparison to a u.s. election, but given a very impassioned speech why he wants to become the next prime minister of the united king dom. the problem he has and his main contender, david cameron, neither of them are likely to get an outright victory. the polls suggest they have around 35% of the votes. and the reason for that is that there are smaller parties such as the scottish nationalists and u.k. independence party that wants to