, we are overjoyed that alan gross is back where he belongs. welcome home, alan. we're glad you're here. ( applause ) >> pelley: and weeks later, a shout-out at the state of the union address. >> gross: i've worked in 54 countries around the world. every time my plane would touch down on u.s. soil, i was grateful to be home, grateful. and that night, in particular, i was humbled. >> pelley: you know, i'm curious. what did you say to your captors on leaving? >> gross: hasta la vista, baby. >> gross: seriously. >> cbs money watch update sponsored by lincoln financial. calling all chief life officers. >> glor: good evening. 150 world leaders in paris for a klimt summit running tomorrow through december 11th. online shoppers are expected to spend a record $3 billion tomorrow on cyber monday. and treasurer janet yellen will discuss the nation's economic outlook thursday on capitol hill. i'm jeff glor, cbs news. i get to spend all day everyday, visiting with dentists, getting an understanding of what they're looking for. somebody who has sensitivity,

afraid that the government had already forgotten his name. >> reporter: the government that sent alan gross on his mission seemed helpless. years stretched on. judy gross lost their home. unable to make the mortgage. there was a time in this imprisonment that you stopped eating. >> i decided that i would go on a hunger strike to protest both governments' lack of leadership and lack of effort to resolve this situation. it was ridiculous. i wasn't a spy. i wasn't a smuggler. i wasn't a criminal. this is absolutely ridiculous. >> you can see scott's full report on our website, cbsnews.com. the overnight news will be right back. phil! oh no... (under his breath) hey man! hey peter. (unenthusiastic) oh... ha ha ha! joanne? is that you? it's me... you don't look a day over 70. am i right? jingle jingle. if you're peter pan, you stay young forever. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. ♪ you make me feel so young... it's what you do. ♪ you make me feel ♪ so spring has sprung. ...one of many pieces in my life. so when my asthma symptoms

i knew i was in trouble. >> reporter: alan gross was attracted to trouble. he's 66, a native of maryland, an electronics specialist who spent 20 years making the rounds of war and disaster, setting up communications for relief agencies. >> and that's why we say when we would connect -- when we'd align the antenna and connect to the satellite we'd be lighting the candle. we'd light her up. and we did that in a lot of places. was cuba. gross was hired by the u.s. agency for international development. u.s.a.i.d. is america's charity, delivering aid all around the world. but in cuba its mission was different. u.s.a.i.d. asked gross to set up independent internet connections for the jewish community. only 5% of cubans were online. but bypassing government censorship was illegal. still, gross put together an equipment list that would do just that. the key was a device called a bgan satellite modem that made a direct connection to a satellite. on his first trip to havana he put a piece of tape over the hughes 9201 model number and walked his equipment through the a

afraid that the government had already forgotten his name. >> reporter: the government that sent alan gross on his mission seemed helpless. years stretched on. judy gross lost their home. unable to make the mortgage. there was a time in this imprisonment that you stopped eating. >> i decided that i would go on a hunger strike to protest both governments' lack of leadership and lack of effort to resolve this situation. it was ridiculous. i wasn't a spy. i wasn't a smuggler. i wasn't a criminal. this is absolutely ridiculous. >> you can see scott's full report on our website, cbsnews.com. the overnight news will be right back. phil! oh no... (under his breath) hey man! hey peter. (unenthusiastic) oh... ha ha ha! joanne? is that you? it's me... you don't look a day over 70. am i right? jingle jingle. if you're peter pan, you stay young forever. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. you make me feel so young... it's what you do. you make me feel so spring has sprung. i have asthma... ...one of many pieces in my life. so when my asth

afraid that the government had already forgotten his name. >> reporter: the government that sent alan grossn his mission seemed helpless. years stretched on. judy gross lost their home. unable to make the mortgage. there was a time in this imprisonment that you stopped eating. >> i decided that i would go on a hunger strike to protest both governments' lack of leadership and lack of effort to resolve this situation. it was ridiculous. i wasn't a spy. i wasn't a smuggler. i wasn't a criminal. this is absolutely ridiculous. >> you can see (politely) wait, wait, wait! you can't put it in like that, you have to rinse it first. what's that, alfredo? no,that can go in. no it can't! what are you, nuts? that's baked-on alfredo. baked-on? it's never gonna work. dish issues? trust your dishwasher with cascade platinum. it powers... through... your toughest stuck-on food. better than finish. (to the hostess) see, told you it would work... (turns to girl 2) you guys heard me say that, right? cascade. the tougher tough-food cleaner. ♪ dry spray? ♪ that's fun. ♪ it's already dry! no wait time. this is gr

both are okay. >> so glad they are both okay. >>> alan gross, a freed contractor, is home for the holidays. thanksgiving gross spent in the u.s. since 2009. he was released from a cuban prison last december and reunited with his wife. his captivity played a key role in america's diplomatic breakthrough with america. on sunday, he will give his first interview to scott pelley on "60 minutes" sharing the brutal conditions he faced for half a decade. >> they threatened to hang me. they threatened to pull out my fingernails. they said i would never see the light of day. i had to do three things in order to survive. three things every day. i thought about my family that survived the holocaust, i exercised religiously every day, and i found something every day to laugh at. >> reporter: did you think in those early days, boy, the u.s. government is going to get me out of here in the next week or so? >> oh, i absolutely did for the first two weeks. and then i said to myself, where the hell are they? where are they? you know? i figured -- i didn't -- i didn't have any idea i would be there for five

>> so glad they're both okay. >>> this morning freed american contractor alan gross is home with his d the first thanksgiving gross spent in the u.s. since 2009. he was released from a cuban prison last december and reunited with his wife. his captivity played a key role in the opening of american relations with cuba. on "60 minutes" he shared with scott pelley what he dealt with for a decade. >> they threatened to hang me, pull out my fingernails. i had to do three things in order to survive, three things every day. i thought about my family that survived the holocaust. i exercised religiously, every day. and i found something every day to laugh at. >> did you think in those early days, boy, the u.s. government's going to get me out of here in the next week or so? >> oh, i absolutely did, for the first two weeks. and then i said to myself, where the hell are they? where are they? you know, i figured -- i didn't have any idea i would be there for five years. i knew i was in trouble. i knew i was in trouble. >> alan gross was attracted to trouble. he's 66, a native of maryland, an elec

. >> reporter: alan gross was attracted to trouble. he's 66, a native of maryland, an electronics specialist who spent 20 years making the rounds of war and disaster, setting up communications for relief agencies. >> and that's why we say when we would connect -- when we'd align the antenna and connect to the satellite we'd be lighting the candle. we'd light her up. and we did that in a lot of places. >> reporter: in 2008 the place was cuba. gross was hired by the u.s. agency for international development. u.s. a.i.d. is america's charity, delivering aid all around the world. but in cuba its mission was different. u.s.a.i.d. asked gross to set up independent internet connections for the jewish community. only 5% of cubans were online. but bypassing government censorship was illegal. still, gross put together an equipment list that would do just that. the key was a device called a bgan satellite modem that made a direct connection to a satellite. on his first trip to havana he put a piece of tape over the hughes 9201 model number and wa

for the first time since he was released from cuba, usaid contractor alan gross is talking about his ve years in prison. gross was jailed for setting up internet connections in the communist country. the cuban government released him last december in exchange for three prisoners held in the u.s. gross will be on "60 minutes" tomorrow to talk about his experience. >>> and storm team 4 tracking rain tonight and tomorrow, as well as cooler air moves in. amelia will show us just how much the temperatures will drop tomorrow and in the coming days. >>> and it's a mixed bag when it comes to black friday sales. why some retailers are cashing in and others are seeing red. >>> you're watching news4 at 6:00. >>> they are a major driver of the u.s. economy, and today you got to shop small to help out our local businesses. news4's derrick ward shows just how important small business saturday is for the bottom line. >> reporter: small business saturday. it comes at the beginning of the holiday shopping season. >> it's a really important time economically. >> reporter: since its inception five years

now alan gross is enjoying the holidays with his family.of sunday's "60 minutes," he describes the three things that got him through each day. >>> plus, travel editor peter greenberg is here to show us new airport security measures and how to get through the long tsa lines as you travel this holiday season. >>> time to show you some of this morning's headlines. >>> "wall street journal" reports on china's plan to build its first overseas naval installation in the east africa nation. china's planned facility is part of its rapidly expanding facilities. a pentagon official has expressed security concerns. >>> "the sacramento bee" reports on a vegetable mix recall believed to be the source of an e. coli outbreak at costco. the mixed of diced onion and celery was used in a chicken salad that sickened 19 people in seven states. it is being recalled out of an abundance of caution. >> gayle will be upset about that. >>> the chicago sun times reports on an arrest made in the murder of tyshaun lee. police made the announcement overnight. the 9-year-

. >>> maryland native alan gross speaking out for the first time about his jail time in cuba. he was released after five years last december in exchange for three cuban prisoners held by the u.s. during the interview gross said he knew there was some danger to what was doing. he also described the moment he was arrested and ordered to take a sedative pill. gross said he was never more humbled than when he was honored by the president at the state of theionion address. his last words to his tap tors in cuban? has hasta la vista, baby. >>> mary hand, the wife of jake brewer gave birth to a baby girl. garnett j. brewer. the j. is for jake, her husband who was killed when riding a bike and colliding with a car. there were 20 heroin-related deaths in the county in the first six months of this year. that is compared to 33 deaths in all of last year. the county's public safe tiff committee will work to come up with ways to address the growing issue. >>> you could soon have an option for getting around prince george's county. if so, county officialings say they will consider whether t

. >> pelley: it has been nearly a year since alan gross became the lynchpin for the diplomatic breakthrough with cuba. but why was he a prisoner there, and what were those years like? >> i wasn't a spy. >> pelley: this is the first interview with the last prisoner from the cold war. >> this is absolutely ridiculous. "cuba, you want to put your finger into the u.s. government's eye, go ahead but leave me out of it." >> whitaker: five years ago, when arizona needed drugs to execute an inmate named jeffrey landrigan, it purchased them illegally from a supplier

. >>> maryland native alan gross will speak out about his time in prison in cuba.ailed gross for setting up internet sections in the communist country. during the interview, gross said he knew there was some danger to what he was doing. he also described the moment he was arrested and ordered to take a sedative pill. >> so i took the pill. he gave me a juice box. as i'm drinking the juice box, swallowing the pill, he said that's it. that's right. drink. drink. i thought i was in an old humphrey bogart movie. they took me to the hospital. they took my clothes. they gave me stripped pajamas. >> gross said he was never more humbled than when he was honored by the president of the united states at the state of the union address. >>> police are looking for a man after an attempted sexual assault in the northeast this happened on lincoln road around 5:00 a.m. yesterday. the man attempted to assault another man in another car. the man drives a crossover or suv. if you were in that area or have any information, police want to hear from you. >>> today the georgetown neighbo

. >>> maryland native alan gross speaks out for the first time on 60 minutes about his time in prison in cuba. prison authorities jailed him for setting up internet connections in that country. during the interview gross said he knew there was some danger to what he was doing. he also described the moment we was arrested. >> he gave me a pill and as i was taking the pill and drinking the juice, he said, that's it, that's right drink, drink. i felt like i was in an old humphrey bogart hospital. they took my clothes and gave me pajamas. >>> the wife of a white house staffer klled in "the ride to conquer cancer" event is a new mother. mary ham, the wife of jake brewer gave birth to a baby girl on sadr morning. according to ham's instagram's page the baby's name is garnet j. brewer. the j. is in honor of jake's name. he died after he co-lied with an oncoming car. >>> 5:35 and happens tonight. montgomery county officials will get a brand-new report on neighbors including domestic violence and heroin use. there have been 36 texts so far this year. that's compared to 33 for last year. >>> pr

what alan gross is saying about his work in cuba and the moment he was arrested. >>> getting ready without all the work. the christmas decoration trend that could help you avoid your >>> it is 6:15. the break news we're covering this morning. two people seriously hurt after a two-vehicle crash in montgomery county. cherry hill road is closed in both directions. a u.s. mail truck and an suv involved in the craze. we'll have more. >>> paul wiedefeld will start as metro's new g.m. he was unanimously appointed. weedfeld is a maryland native and he'll make just over $397,000 a year. >>> we want to show you some video out of paris where the united nations summit on climate change is happening right now. take a look. world leaders held a moment of silence after the paris attack. president obama is there. a short time ago they said the fight against terrorism and climate change are two major challenges we must face. at the top of the agenda, discussing air pollution, which is considered one of the largest health risks. we'll bring you more as we get it. aaron? >> 6:17. an an intense scene in paris

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then alan krueger on the two americas. finally, bill grossession that we have seen. stay with us. another hour of "bloomberg surveillance." ♪ tom: is it possible we will see ?.9% unemployment this morning on this job's day, we look at the american job making machine amid no inflation. the central bankers of the world will not they'll a stagnant global economy. in this hour we speak to the will not bail out a stagnant global economy. in this hour we speak to the other central banker. good morning, everyone. this is "bloomberg surveillance ," live from our world headquarters in new york. it is friday, jobs day, november 6. francine lacqua, we go from mark carney's shock over what could be a shock at 8:30. jon: the jobs report, everyone is looking at it. about labor talking participation, wage growth, and labor participation. the world wants to be an expert because it gives vindication on whether we get the fed hike or not.

before that, alan krueger will join us from princeton university, of course working with president obama a year or so ago. and then on to bill gross with his market reaction. bill gross with that important essay this week to get the long curve, higher yield, and the short end of the curve, relatively lower yield. he wants to go from a twist and shout to an operation switch. stay with us. "bloomberg surveillance." ♪ tom: good morning, everyone. "bloomberg surveillance." there it is, square ipo. some nice news flow this friday as well. square puts out their ipo as well. on this jobs day we needed business flash. here is vonnie quinn. vonnie: the ceo of united continental is prepared to return to work just weeks after a heart attack. it was his first indication since taking medical leave in october. already director when he was hired from csx in september. ratings are downgrading the bank, setting asset quality. earlier this week, the london bank revealed plans to tap investors for more than $5 billion, eliminate thousands of jobs, and cut risky assets across asia. that is the bloomberg business flash. tom, you have breaking news on

we got the bill gross reaction when we return, we will get the reaction from alan krueger breaking them you thought about the overhang that the cheney slowed and would have on the u.s. economy, that may have been overblown. -- that the chinese economy slowed down, and that would have only was economy, that may have been overblown. we just got a very big jobs number. ♪ david: welcome back, we are joined by alan krueger and clyde brooke. -- crook. the top lineelow number, it's hard to find a bad one. >> this is a terrific report an american image of last month. you could find the silver lining last month but almost all the details look good this month. wage growth was strong over the last 12 months which is the best in over six years. hours were steady. the average work week was steady. labor participation was steady and that brought us a measure of labor you'd is always -- utilization. i'm reminded when i look at this report that when i went to the oval office to greet the president when the unemployment rate at the debt 10% and came down, the president said i remind myself don't get too

companies are working on negative gross margins today, which means the are less than what the cost of producing that service is. erik: in other words, they are giving it away. alan: they are giving it away. erik: amazing when you are giving it away how easy it is to sell stuff. alan: the cost will bring themselves down by volume. we have to wait and see. news, alangood patricof is going to stay with us. ubs is reorganizing management, third-quarter profits more than doubled. manus cranny is with us from zurich and sat down with the ceo following these announcements. what do you make of ubs' delay and return on equity targets? i think this is what the market is most focused on, second time in three years that they have delayed, pushed back. the target is 15%. the target for this year, they are going to try that. this is a story where you have tax helping the numbers today, legal charges helping the numbers today. get this, investment banks, a 33% return because he is capital light, flow have a. muchnk the market is very -- there is a delay, and he would argue that it is not a delay, that it is the reality of where we are in the world. that weesponse will be at, t

. >> pelley: it has been nearly a year since alan gross became the lynchpin for the diplomatic breakthrough with cuba. but why was he a prisoner there, and what were those years like? >> i wasn't a spy. >> pelley: this is the first interview with theast prisoner from the cold war. >> this is absolutely ridiculous. "cuba, you want to put your government's eye, go ahead but leave me out of it." >> whitaker: five years ago, when arizona needed drugs to execute an inmate named jeffrey landrigan, it purchased them illelelly from a supplier operating out of this driving school in london.. >> it's my understanding that there was a paperwork issue. the proper forms weren't filled out. >> whitaker: was it used in the execution of mr. landrigan? >> yes.