merry christmas eve, everybody. so the big thing today is santa s very busy. oh, yeah. he s out delivering as of 59 seconds ago, he started to deliver his gifts according to norad. starting at 2:00 eastern, depending where you are in the country, it s going to be now. noradsanta.org is where you can track him for the entire day starting at 2:00 eastern time. we will have to check on him. i think so, too. we ll start with the early winter storm being blamed for 11 deaths across the country. arctic blast sending temperatures below freezing as for a as the florida panhandle. ginger zee reports it is a dangerous christmas week deep freeze. reporter: frozen solid. parts of michigan to maine encased in up to an inch and a quarter of ice. thick enough to skate the streets in toronto, canada. freezing rain taking down trees, which takes down power lines.
everybody. so the big thing today is santa s very busy. oh, yeah. he s out delivering as of 59 seconds ago, he started to deliver his gifts according to norad. starting at 2:00 eastern, depending where you are in the country, it s going to be now. noradsanta.org is where you can track him for the entire day starting at 2:00 eastern time. we will have to check on him. i think so, too. we ll start with the early winter storm being blamed for 11 deaths across the country. arctic blast sending temperatures below freezing as for a as the florida panhandle. ginger zee reports it is a dangerous christmas week deep freeze. reporter: frozen solid. parts of michigan to maine encased in up to an inch and a quarter of ice. thick enough to skate the streets in toronto, canada. freezing rain taking down trees, which takes down power lines. the thing is when they get one line repaired, another branch is coming down. they are not really catching up. reporter: 400,000 are without powe
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noradsanta.org. can you imagine you re driving a fishing boat and all of a sudden, and you look up and see santa. that would be a little awkward. fishing boat of all things. exactly. walking down the street and looking up. don t forget, coming up on the show, if that wasn t enough for you, we ll have an update from the commander of norad who has cleared santa under american airspace. he s coming up at 15 minutes with where santa is. he ll have an update for us and let us know when santa can land. kids, you don t want to miss that. and hopefully you ve all been nice. not naughty. so he s visiting you. thank you, daddy briggs. now for the headlines. north korea could be planning another nuclear test for next year. that s according to a south korean think tank. word comes after they held military drills near the border. after they were carried out, the north said it would launch sacred nuclear war if attacked. the people of north korea are celebrating the anniversary o