the winner of this year's nobel peace prize. it goes to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. it did not go to pakistani teenager malala yousafzai. that was a surprise. fred, how big a surprise is this? >> reporter: it's a gigantic surprise. there were people around who were absolutely sure that malala was going to get it, especially the media attention she's been getting the past couple of days. nevertheless, people say the opcw is a worthy winner because of also the fact they've been doing so much work in syria where they spearheaded that investigation into the chemical weapons use that happened in late august. but the nobel committee said that the reason why they got the prize this year was specifically not for the work in syria this year but for trying to get rid of chemical weapons in the world over the past couple of decades. of course it's helping both the u.s. and russia get rid of their