the former president of iceland is currently running icelands booth at the book fair. she says nothing is more important in iceland than the written word. >> the icelanders are very artistically minded and very creative. there is very little material in the country to mold sculptures or paid paintings as in other countries -- or paint paintings as in other countries because we have no trees. we have nothing for building a castle or whatever. our castles are in the sow this. >> iceland is indeed full of creative spirit. a culture center has sprung up in this former power station. one of iceland's more successful younger officers has an office here -- younger authors has an office here. he wrote the nonfiction best seller "dreamland," a critique of the belief in nonstop economic growth. >> you would write an article in a newspaper, but when you write a book, you can take the reader through a whole thinking process. you can almost try to be installed a new program in their brain -- try to reinstall a new program in the brain. >> the book became a movie that received inter

it's iceland. people in one case i think even throwing firewood at icelandic officials.ee this person right here? that person right there is the first lady of iceland. she is the wife of the president. she's basically the michelle obama of iceland. and look what she does at these protests. watch her. she's with this group of politicians, but she turns -- oh, wait. there she is. she's broken away from them. she leaves them doing their best to get to the church and kind of quick walks like she's hoping her own handlers won't notice she's slipping away. and then she starts talking to and embracing the protesters. the first lady of iceland hot foots it over to the barricades where the eggs and the yogurt and the firewood have been coming from and people who have been suffering for three years now after this crisis, she walks over, she hugs them, and then she climbs over the barricade. and then in her fancy i'm first lady going to church suit she climbs over the barricade toward people who had just been throwing stuff in her general direction. across europe thousands of peopl

that's what you could do in iceland to make money. washing off of fishing boats and becoming currency traders in days. a matter of days. and they told themselves that they were good at this. their president was wandering the world saying icelanders were naturally suited to become hedge fund people and they had this natural gift that somehow hadn't expressed itself for a thousand years but all of a sudden... >> jon: and they were killing it for those first couple years. >> for five years they were great. then they lost $100 billion. (audience reacts). >> jon: it happens! >> it happens, yes. >> jon: . >> and it was the men. it was just the men. the men fished and the men moved off the fishing boats into the banks. and the women... you could see what happened. the men said to their wives "i mow what i'm doing. i know what i'm doing here." (laughter) "i knew what i was doing there, you never asked me about the fish, don't ask me about the money." and they went and did this stuff and the women went "all right. looks like it's going all rig

the people of iceland are struggling to recover from financial disaster. protecting europe's waterways. if you are out of work in hungary, you are out of luck. prime minister viktor orban wants people to earn their keep. the daily commute of up to two hours is considered reasonable. >> near the hungarian village, roma have been working eight hours a day to remove the brush from the mountains. if they refuse, the welfare payments will be cut off. last spring, roma in this village were terrorized by neo nazis. >> we're happy to work. we do not see the sense in this. it grows back. we have to climb many kilometers on foot. we wonder why only roma are given this hard work. not one single hungarian welfare recipient. >> they have received no answer for that. in the future, all participants are to participate in a mandatory make work scheme. he is very fit and used to be in the military. >> i wanted to retrain to do a computer course. they told me i had to supervise these workers first or lose my unemployment benefits and job training. >> in budapest, this schem

and the icelanders had carly this... the male icelander had this conquering impulse. secretly had to go out and conquer the world. the irish didn't do that. the irish bought ireland. they wanted it turned inward. they createdhis fantasy that ireland was going to be something completely different than irela had ever been. a global financial center and a place where people would move to. voluntarily. >> rose: before all this happened there was a belief in the irish miracle. you know, they had low interest rates, low taxation, everything was like... this was a place where they had set a system up that they believe was the wave of the future. and that they understood capitalism better than anybody. >> they were very vulnerable because after centuries of povr, centuries of economic failure, breathtaking economic failure, millions of people immigrating or dying of starvation, in the early '80s they experienced this incredible turnaround and people have been trying to explain this. it's not ever been fully explained. a pair of sociologists at harvard argued it had to do with

salmon. >> those are real icelanders inviting you do their everyday life to visit iceland.visited their friends and family to visit. and it boosted tourism. >> i wanted that one gentleman cooking for me. >> i wouldn't mind him cooking for me. >> you can go to inspireiceland.com. there's a little facebook column where you can type in and say, hey, i'll pick you up on that. >> i think most people when they want to go on a ray indication, they want to go somewhere warm and nice where they can drink something with an umbrella in it. >> how many times can you talk about a vacation, i went to iceland and the president of the country made me pancakes. >>> this guy's got a room full of kids. pretty cute, right? ♪ born to be wild [ female announcer ] is your medicare plan keeping up with you? ♪ since you've never been one to slow down, now through december 7th, you won't have to. it's faster and easier than ever to switch your medicare coverage to anthem blue cross. ♪ we've created medicare solutions that are just right for you. we have plans with low monthly premiums. plus you have

salmon. >> those are real icelanders inviting you do their everyday life to visit iceland.landers visited their friends and family to visit. and it boosted tourism. >> i wanted that one gentleman cooking for me. >> i wouldn't mind him cooking for me. >> you can go to inspireiceland.com. there's a little facebook column where you can type in and say, hey, i'll pick you up on that. >> i think most people when they want to go on a ray indication, they want to go somewhere warm and nice where they can drink something with an umbrella in it. >> how many times can you talk about a vacation, i went to iceland and the president of the country made me pancakes. >>> this guy's got a room full of kids. pretty cute, right? probably get him and i'm looking forward to the movie. >>> i don't know if this video is going do make you laugh or if it's going to make you cry. it depends if you're a cat-lover or a cat hater. but take a look at this. [ meowing ] >> that's a lot of cats. and not only -- >> is this like wearing tighty whities? >> this video comes from the ukraine and this is a man

instead, it was miss iceland 1974. >> maria kramer writes for the boston globe. confronted her about the $2 million reward and was told by her husband she likes her privacy and doesn't want to comment. until the globe broke the story, the identity of the tipster was a top secret. when she lived in santa monica, she went as anna. lived in this apartment complex, which was right around the corner from katherine greg. and the two became friends one day over a stray cat. >> the cat didn't belong no anyone. >> this woman who did not want to give her name said she would see miss greg two, three times a day feeding the cat. she doesn't remember seeing the former miss iceland specifically, but a lot of people would stop by and miss greg was friendly. so the way the story goes, her daughter would walk around the corner from where she lived and meet with bulger's girlfriend. we are told right here on the steps, this is where the cat would hang out. and the two became acquaintances, friends and no doubt talked about a number of things. a question you might ask? why didn't h

how whitey bulger's decades on the run ended with a chance meeting with the former miss iceland. >>> by now you've seen the occupying movement which started as a protest against wall street has spread now to 67 cities in 33 states and, tonight, the latest city on the list, oakland. robert liles on what these protestors are all about. robert? >> reporter: well, dana, unlike the occupation across the bay in san francisco, tents continue to pop up here on the lawn of oakland city hall. in fact, popping up by the hour. but are the people inside fighting foreclosures, fighting for health care, our cameras have been here since the start of this occupation and we found that what motivates them is one word, "elusive." in the dark, in the rain, and in the mud, they have swollen to an estimated 750, calling themselves "occupy oakland j. >> we've got to tear it down. >> piping in a call of solidarity from new york, where occupy wall street is in its fourth week. >> this is the kitchen for occupy oakland. >> reporter: taking a page from new york's script they are setting up a kitchen, child care

they invested in icelandic banks, they invested in greek government bonds, they were heavy into irish banks, big in the irish banks, and they bought u.s. sub-prime mortgage bonds. >> reporter: lewis' controversial explanation is a german love of rules. the rules said triple-a investments were safe. since they weren't, germans are now being asked to protect their own banks from ruin by bailing out the borrowers, like greece. lewis claims a deep national neurosis was at work. >> there's a wonderful little book called "life is like a chicken coop ladder." and it was basically about purity and impurity, and the germans had this tendency to get themselves in a position, kind of getting right up next to the impure, right up next to the dirt without getting themselves too dirty. and i realized i was reading a story that explained their relationship to the current financial mess. they didn't borrow a lot of money. the german financial people, though, kind of crept right up to all the filth in the financial system, with... with some fascination i think. and... and a little mud splattered on th

she collected the $2 million reward and returned to iceland.horities fear that having been identified, she is now in danger. >>> the official cause of death for apple's ceo and founder steve jobs was cardiac arrest, resulting from pancreatic cancer that has spread to other organs. jobs suffered from declining health since 2003 and he was diagnosed with cancer. he had a liver transplant two years ago. he died last week at the age of 56. >>> on the cbs money watch, asian stocks followed wall street's lead with solid gains. good morning, ashley. >> good morning to you, betty. big gains for the asian markets on hopes the markets can be contained. tokyo's nikkei gained almost 2%. hong kong's hang seng was up more than 2%. other regional markets were higher. the gains were mostly in reaction to france and germany's pledge to protect the european banking sector. >>> today, wall street gets the minutes from the federal reserve's last meeting and earnings season kicks off after the closing bell. monday, stocks surged. the dow shot up 330 points, its big

visit iceland. you'll never regret it. t it.  >> more than 80 cats are recovering in frederick after being found in a thurmont, maryland, house. the air and home still bad, a hazmat team had to come in with a respirator to put out the cat. one had to be put down and the others were taken to a clinic for care. >>> it's a jungle in ohio. 56 exotic animals escape from a wildlife preserve locking down an entire town. 48 of the animals had to be put down and others were rescued, a monthy is still missing and let's go to rick hahn, the executive director in thurmont. how likely is it these animals would have attacked, rick? >> well, it's quite likely, brian. it's -- they're out of their habitats and in a very stressful situation. animals attack for two reason. they attack for food and when they're afraid. >> the owner of the particular animals in ohio had faced animal cruelty charges before. is it easy for animal owners to get in over their heads? >> well, it's easy to get more animals than you can handle and you hear stories

now because iceland stood up to the bankers whereas still be subjugated by the tyranny of the bankers and this granny here who you see throwing rocks the police she's a good emblem for what the cops store for them and the politicians are greece as the things heat up in greece hopefully the banks in greece will completely collapse and this will be the only saving grace for sovereignty. the family of colonel gadhafi is preparing to sue nato airstrike on his convoy into his one day and seventy c. finds his family lawyer said that the alliance actions were clearly aimed at overthrowing the colonel and not protecting civilians even we could often go on the country's future looks far from secure from tripoli and this annoyed since this report. the war is over but the weapons are fully loaded. human rights watch has expressed grave concern about leftover are in libya their number one fear warehouse thought to hold ground to air new found which could in the wrong hands take down passenger aircraft it's through nato and nato allies in the region which these weapons have been floating by libyan

on a trip back to iceland she saw a news report about bulger and phoned the f.b.i. she collected a $2 million reward. a popular drug for treating inflammation is giving patients sticker shock. why the pills suddenly cost 50 times more. so easy, you just need campbell's cream of mushroom soup to make them and a hungry family to love them. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. >> pelley: more than half of american adults take dietary supplements but a study out today suggest older women may face a slightly greater risk of death if they take multivitamins or mineral supplements, researchers say they don't know why and found no direct link between these supplements and health problems but this study in the "archives of internal medicine" will add to the questions about whether healthy people need to take them at all. one of the most popular treatments for gout and other inflammatory prescriptions is a prescription drug called colchicine. it dates back to ancient greece and is taken by nearly four million americans. in recent months, the price shot up almost 5,000%.

iceland has invited tourists to stay in peoples homes.he country's president wants people to experience the real iceland and has invited visit near his own house. the iceland president said interested tourists can stop by for pancakes, whipped cream and rhubarb jam. it's an impressive house. i've been. there great bird watching to there as well. >> i shall remember that when i go for my rhubarb and ice cream. >>> staying with tourism, japan has come up with a novel idea to boost tourism in its country. when you see pictures like this, which is what most people see now of japan this is the aftermath of the tsunami, you can see why they want to boost tourism. and how they're doing it? they'll make it free. the japanese government is offering 10,000 free flights to foreigners to travel there next year. visitor arrivals in the country plunged 3% year on year after the tsunami in march. interested travelers can apply online for those tickets. >>> let's turn our attention to howard schultz, the boss of starbucks, and that's in talk to expand it

are they now know because iceland stood up to the bankers whereas grace is still being subjugated by the tyranny of the bankers and this granny here who you say throwing rocks at the police sees a good emblem for what the cops store for them and the politicians and greece as the things heat up in greece hopefully the banks in greece will completely collapse and this will be the only saving grace for greek sovereignty while this granny is throwing rocks at the police because not only has her pension from been depleted by the bankers in italy and france but joblessness is particularly hammering greek youth an astounding forty two percent of people between the ages of fifteen and twenty four are without work doubled the level from three years ago before the troika came to rescue the people of greece no well they are consigning this whole generation to the dustbin of history basically they want to push him onto reservations this is the model they want to they hope that these people become drug addicts and kill themselves that's the. solution to the unemployment problem the final solution

now because iceland stood up to the bankers whereas greece is still being subjugated by the tyranny of the bankers and there's granny here who you see throwing rocks at the police she's a good emblem for what the cops store for them and the politicians agree says the things heat up in greece hopefully the banks in greece will completely collapse and this will be the only saving grace for greek sovereignty. and freeing the skies above libya by lifting the no fly zone and putting an end to nato is process is on the cards at the u.n. security council today it's to vote on a draft resolution not to wind down the military campaign despite calls from libya's new leaders to extend the mission until the end of the year also russia is proposing a plan aimed at making it off the iraq military stockpile secure to prevent libyan weapons illegally disappearing abroad but getting a handle on what's there is proving impossible for the n t c which is failing to deal with the plethora of arms already circulating parties and he said ali reports . the war is over but the weapons are fully loaded. human r