What a way to wake up for President Obama today – with news breaking that Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Barack Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, learned from reporters that Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize – he then phoned the White House to deliver the good news.

Watch this Today show video for more details about Obama’s Peace Prize win, which the Norwegian Nobel Committee said is for Obama’s “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” and his creation of “a new climate in international politics.”

Thorbjoern Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Committee said of Barack Obama’s win: “Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future. In the past year Obama has been a key person for important initiatives in the U.N. for nuclear disarmament and to set a completely new agenda for the Muslim world and East-West relations.”