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- Good morning, Merry Christmas.

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Well, we're pretty busy today
with this additional duty

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that we've got on the
24th of tracking Santa,

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we're really busy all year long of course,

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defending Canada and the United States

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from whatever threats we
happen to be identifying

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but today we have a whole
bunch of volunteers in

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helping us man the phones
and watching the screens

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and to track Santa all around the world.

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For the last little bit here,

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so maybe the last 15 minutes
or so, Santa's been over Japan.

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We have no idea of course
where he's headed next,

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we've got abour 64 years of history here

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so we have a bit of an idea
where he might be going

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but there's no flight
plan, we'll figure out

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where he's going when he gets there.

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Well, we don't know how long it takes

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at each residence, if
that's what you mean,

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but of course it takes him 24 hours

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to get around the globe more or less

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and we figure we're calculating

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at just over a billion
gifts delivered so far today

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so it's gonna be quite
a busy day for Santa.

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NORAD started tracking
Santa when a wrong number

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was published in a department store ad

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here in Colorado Springs in 1955,

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and NORAD's predecessor was called

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Continental Air Defense Command

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and a colonel on duty picked up the phone

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which was supposed to be a direct line

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to the North Pole and Santa

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and he played along and
it started a tradition

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and NORAD then was stood up in 1958,

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we've been using our
radars and other sensors

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to track ever since
then, just to keep an eye

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on where Santa's going.

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Well, we don't help Santa normally

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when he's around the
world, we do escort him

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when he's here in North America

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with our fighter jets but we haven't,

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we don't help him, we help
the rest of the people

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around the world that are interested

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in understanding where Santa is

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and when Santa might get there,

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through all of the various
methods that we use

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and you've asked how we've
changed over the years.

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Well, it started with a
phone in kind of service,

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but today we've
modernized, we're available

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through our website, www.noradsanta.org

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or through all sorts of social media

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with #NoradTracksSanta, even available

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on Alexa or OnStar and other
social media type outlets.

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Well, what we would say here

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is the same thing that
the volunteers are saying

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behind me, is Santa
will only come to homes

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where everybody's asleep.

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Normally this is between
nine o'clock and midnight,

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so just a reminder that you
need to be in bed and asleep

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sometime before nine o'clock to ensure

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that Santa comes to visit.

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Thanks, Merry Christmas.