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Defense, and a commander assured the boy santa would be safe and sound as he left the north pole and went around the world, and is where the tradition started. >> explain what you are doing in social media. >> ayman, thanks for that. absolutely. you can get a hold of the website at www.noradsanta.org. you can call in or e-mail, and people will respond to your e-mail at noradtracksanta. therei there's plenty of ways you can track santa and know where he has been and where he is going. >> can you tell us about what else you are tracking out there?

Military, and north american space command, the commander there at the base with an update, and good to have you with us. i know you are busy tracking a lot of different issues going on right now, including santa claus. tell us what is going on and wh you expect santa to be doing over the next couple of hours? >> let me just tell you. we just last saw santa over the great wall in china, and he already delivered over 1 billion presents, ayman. can you believe that? >> that i can't believe. impressive. a long day ahead to go. talk about the history of norad if you can and tracking santa for us. ...

Tracking santa's christmas travels around the world. right now according to norad, santa and his reindeer are headed to tanzania. they've already delivered more than 2 billion gifts. joining me from colorado springs is captain scott miller. take us back. how did this tradition get started? >> well, merry christmas to you and thank you for having me. it's an amazing story on this tradition and how it started. all with a misprint in a local ad that was going to be in the gazette here in colorado springs. an advertisement for sears offered the opportunity for kiddies to talk to santa. and the mis...

Joining me now is major general, chief of staff. >> merry christmas to everybody from norad and u.s. northern command. great to be with you this morning. we're tracking santa. he's delivered over a billion gifts traveling over japan and into south korea. we're doing everything we can to track him, make sure he's getting information in realtime about weather issues and other things like that and just making sure his travels around the globe are safe and secure. >> you've been tracking norad for 60 years now. how has it been enhanced through technology? >> sir, i'm sorry. didn't quite understand...

>> oh, absolutely. we've been taking calls from around the world all day. we have about 1500 volunteers here at the norad track center. and we have a number of different ways that we're communicating with those people. for the boys and girls out there that are interested in logging on and tracking santa, our website is wwwnoradsanta.org. and our phone number right here you can probably see the volunteers behind me answering calls at this very moment. our phone number is 877-hi-norad. >> oh, i love it. i spoke to one of your colleagues who said santa was on track to arrive between 9:00 and midn...