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There s a reason why in turkey, the military stood against islamic governance and erdogan has done everything he can. and a lot of this is his own policies come home to roost. you know, if you look at just on friday, turkey, you know, their director of religious affairs issued at a sermon said celebrating on new year s eve is illegitimate. muslims celebrate new year s eve off of a different calendar. for them new year s was october 3rd where they celebrated the year 1348. celebrating the gregorian calendar new year s eve goes against their faith. it s something that erdogan and certainly pro government publications, they were issuing cartoons with jihadists shooting down santa and sleigh with an rpg punching out santa. this is a lot of his own problems come to roost, gregg. ....
There s a reason why in turkey, the military stood against islamic governance and erdogan has done everything he can. and a lot of this is his own policies come home to roost. you know, if you look at just on friday, turkey, you know, their director of religious affairs issued at a sermon said celebrating on new year s eve is illegitimate. muslims celebrate new year s eve off of a different calendar. for them new year s was october 3rd where they celebrated the year 1348. celebrating the gregorian calendar new year s eve goes against their faith. it s something that erdogan and certainly pro government publications, they were issuing cartoons with jihadists shooting down santa and sleigh with an rpg punching out santa. this is a lot of his own problems come to roost, gregg. ....
And retail chains alike. if you re one of those waiting till the very last minute to do your shopping, the clock is ticking. if you haven t checked off everyone on your list, you have time and don t even have to leave your house. my only personal santa. you are not alone. 7.5 of americans are still going to buy at least one last gift today. lots of stores are still open till pretty late this evening. many stores, the big box ones, kohl s, macy s will be open until 6 p.m. walmart closing at 8 p.m., toys r us until 9:00. a lot of the hot toys are already sold out. target is closing at 10 and 11. they are going the distance but that is a lot of great options. and if you have doesnn t wano go out, you can go on. ....
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. i m saying you have enhanced technology to help out santa. ....
When he this he get these boxes. that many captures my heart. woodworking has always been fogel s hobby. after i retired, i was diagnosed with mus cue lateral dystrophy which limited me in my physical abilities. i want to give of myself, and i saw in a catalog where i could buy a kit to make 100 cars. fogel has donated around 100,000 toys to operation christmas child. i ve got a map in my shop. i have a pin for every every country that my toys have been. if i get tired of doing this, i look at that map. oh, yeah, that s why i m doing that, so i keep going. that s great. if you want to help him out in this endeavor, worthy endeavor, go to cnn.com/impact, all the infoal is there. we ll all be elves to help out santa. for a year, his pro boxing down ....