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Shell: big oil struggles as profits dive

Smaller earnings from big oil as Shell reports an unexpectedly sharp 70 percent drop in profits. As with BP, weak oil prices are to blame - and higher charges resulting from the Anglo-Dutch group buying BG. Laura Frykberg reports.