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>> nothing to worry about. we've been watching a few small storm systems. we feed that information to santa. he has all the latest navigational aids. we don't see any difficulties in getting every single present out this evening. >> clayton: not only protecting us here at home, they're also tracking santa. u.s. army general commander of norad general charles jacoby. merry christmas to you and thank you so much. coming up on the show. pastor rick warren says the nation has never been more divided since the civil war. find out who he says is to blame. then santa couldn't fit this gift under the ...

Following santa. since this morning we've been open since 6:00 eastern time, and as you can see behind me, there's a room, and there's many rooms in our norad track operation center. we've fielded more than 24,000 phone calls, and we are on track to be beat the record of last year where we have received over 102 phone calls. we're pretty busy, but we're very excited to be. >> it sounds very busy there. last but not least, where is santa right now in his travels, and what is his estimated time to basically be in north america area? >> well, right now we're tracking santa over russia, and as you...

Conclusions from that. as of the weekend, the average spending was only $340 action and that's less than half the total spending expected this year. also wednesday, the after-christmas sales those are folded into holiday spending. >> that's when us frugal guys get out there. jane wells, thank you -- >> reporter: that really is procrastinating. appreciate it. he's made his list, checked it twice. in a nnorad will be tracking his travels. joining from us colorado spring. lieutenant general, thank you for joining us. >> the operation is going full swing since 4:00 this morning, tracking santa a...

I'm doing christmas day, rick. working... >> rick: and, surprised billie crystal lasted until day 7 to have his first martini. >> jamie: he really knows how to tell a story. >> rick: good luck with the money, coming up, google known for taking on the biggest names in the high-tech game and this christmas, the company is taking on norad. the north american aerospace post, after several years working with google, now using bing. and google is rolling out its own santa tracker that will include christmas themed games and norad's predecessor start tracking santa in the year 1955 and, they are accu...

Tracking santa on christmas eve. >> the tracking story it started as an accident where a hot line for santa had a wrong number and connect to do some guy at norad and he made up the story. >> this is the height of the cold war. this phone was only supposed to be called by the president of the united states or the head of the military in the event of a nuclear attack. it rings on christmas eve in 1955 the colonel picks it up. instead of hearing some type of nuclear code or military warning he hears a little child's voice saying i want to speak to santa claus. that was the pastart of the traditi...