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Rounds. no, we checked santa's website at far adthe command. check out this map. it shows old st. nick has delivered 3 billion gifts and it's still very young. it started in 1955. a typo was printed and instead reaching an advertiser's number for santa, children dialed the air defense command by accident. in the holiday spirit, the people who answered the phone played along and they gave santa's progress and that has turned into what has now become the santa tracker at norad and it is all about social media, these days, of course and it uses facebook and twit tore help little ones track santa ...

And brushing asides warnings from the west. the crisis in ukraine it is causing. jennifer griffin has more from the pentagon. >> the pentagon is watching closely reports that armed troops sympathetic to russia just stormed the gates of the main air defense command centerrer in sevastopol. the pentagon estimates there are 20,000 russian troops in crima, i'm told there will be no change to u.s. military posture, however. the f-15 fighter jets sent to the baltics were to reassure nato allies. the pentagon does not want to escalate or give putin a pretext to invade elsewhere. the pentagon's big co...

Significant progress and that the u.s. and its allies have managed to create the no fly zone. are you surprised at this early stage at that progress? >> well, not at all, richard. the fact is with 100 plus tomahawk miswellssiles, the var of which we've been using, you would expect significant damage early on. i'm sure the global hawk is up. i'm sure we're assessing via satellite looking at all the air defense command and control. and, of course, we just heard the report from your person on the ground there by b. hittiaboa convoy. all to be expected. air wars do that. >> but colonel, if you're ...

To leland vitter who is streaming live from ras lanouf. >> it was a couple of minutes ago that this went off, it appears as if they may have started another airplane above us and the gadhafi air strikes have been the thing that's been really, really troubling to the rebels. we already have two bombs, one landed on a house, these guys are firing off again as they think they may have seen a plane. i've talked to a lot of these gunners, none have been trained, none know what they're doing so trying to shoot down a fast moving jet is almost impossible for them. we just returned here to ras lanuf f...

Several weeks, the pentagon and u.s. central command updating their plan against iran. they are ready if and when president obama was to come to the military and said i have made up my mind, there will be a strike against iran's nuclear targets. the military ready to go with the freshest information, the most comprehensive planning selecting weapons against specific targets. all to be ready just in case the president says that that is the decision he's taken. kiran and jim. >> are there new concerns about iran's military? we know ahmadinejad can talk tough. we've heard these statements before....