WEBVTT

00:00.009 --> 00:03.549
CIA Well , as we count down to

00:03.549 --> 00:05.716
Christmas , we're keeping our eyes out

00:05.716 --> 00:07.938
for Santa . Norad tracks him every year

00:07.938 --> 00:10.105
and right now he's been making his way

00:10.105 --> 00:12.310
over Australia . So much goes into

00:12.310 --> 00:14.366
tracking Santa every year , and this

00:14.366 --> 00:16.588
morning we're getting an inside look at

00:16.588 --> 00:18.643
how that happens . Yeah , Lieutenant

00:18.643 --> 00:20.754
General Thomas Carden Junior joins us

00:20.754 --> 00:22.810
now from NORAD . Can you tell us how

00:22.810 --> 00:24.810
this all got started , how this all

00:24.810 --> 00:26.977
came to be the tracking Santa ? Well ,

00:26.977 --> 00:29.199
good morning , Merry Christmas . Thanks

00:29.199 --> 00:31.199
for having us today . Uh , Nora had

00:31.199 --> 00:33.199
started tracking Santa in 1955 , so

00:33.199 --> 00:35.366
this is our 69th year . It all started

00:35.366 --> 00:37.770
with a misprint in a newspaper ad , a

00:37.770 --> 00:39.937
young boy , uh , responded to the ad a

00:39.937 --> 00:42.048
colonel , uh , here at NORAD answered

00:42.048 --> 00:44.214
the phone , and , uh , today we have a

00:44.214 --> 00:46.326
1000 volunteers , uh , here answering

00:46.326 --> 00:48.492
those phones for boys and girls around

00:48.492 --> 00:50.492
the world . Oh , that story , and I

00:50.492 --> 00:52.714
love hearing it every year . How do you

00:52.714 --> 00:54.881
actually do it ? How do you know where

00:54.881 --> 00:57.099
Santa is ? Well , you know , actually

00:57.099 --> 00:59.099
we use our , our radars and our

00:59.099 --> 01:01.432
satellite networks and our fighter jets ,

01:01.432 --> 01:03.655
the same tools we use every day to keep

01:03.655 --> 01:05.821
North America safe . We just happen to

01:05.821 --> 01:08.043
have a special aviator in the sky today

01:08.043 --> 01:10.321
with uh Santa Claus . I love that . OK ,

01:10.321 --> 01:12.488
I know my little boy loves calling you

01:12.488 --> 01:14.655
guys and tracking online . Do you know

01:14.655 --> 01:16.860
when Santa might be over Colorado ?

01:17.709 --> 01:19.820
Well , you know , it's , it's hard to

01:19.820 --> 01:21.765
say , uh , he follows a little bit

01:21.765 --> 01:24.098
different path , uh , every single year .

01:24.098 --> 01:26.209
Uh , it's just important for boys and

01:26.209 --> 01:28.487
girls to , uh , be in bed by 9 o'clock .

01:28.487 --> 01:30.765
That's really the most important thing ,

01:30.765 --> 01:32.765
uh , so that gives it increases the

01:32.765 --> 01:34.653
chances that they get those gifts

01:34.653 --> 01:36.876
delivered . And not to wake up before 6

01:36.876 --> 01:39.069
a.m. , right ? Right , right , OK ,

01:40.949 --> 01:43.699
very quickly before we go as well , uh ,

01:43.709 --> 01:45.487
just anything you can tell us ,

01:45.487 --> 01:47.431
anything you can say to the kids ,

01:47.431 --> 01:49.598
maybe a message you heard from Santa .

01:49.598 --> 01:51.709
Well , you know , uh , I think , uh ,

01:51.709 --> 01:54.042
it really goes back to , uh , just , uh ,

01:54.042 --> 01:56.269
being good all year , uh , minding your

01:56.269 --> 01:58.325
parents , uh , and being in bed by 9

01:58.325 --> 02:00.325
o'clock and not getting up before 6

02:00.325 --> 02:02.380
a.m. and the chances of , uh , gifts

02:02.380 --> 02:04.491
arriving , uh , goes up quite a bit .

02:05.190 --> 02:07.301
OK , I'm gonna have to reinforce that

02:07.301 --> 02:09.246
because my little one's like , I ,

02:09.246 --> 02:11.134
Santa's gonna wake me up so early

02:11.134 --> 02:10.949
tomorrow so I'm gonna be like Santa

02:10.949 --> 02:14.059
said no Santa said sleep in , thank you

02:14.059 --> 02:16.170
so much for stopping by our show . We

02:16.170 --> 02:18.500
so appreciate it . Well , a few places

02:18.500 --> 02:20.820
Santa might want to spend some extra

02:20.820 --> 02:22.139
time to Colorado .