Michelle Obama helps 'track' Santa

HONOLULU - US First Lady Michelle Obama surprised excited kids on Saturday by answering an air defense hotline set up to track Santa's Christmas Eve trek around the globe with his reindeer.

"Right now, I am looking at the tracker and I can see a dot on the satellite screen. It says that Santa, right now, is flying over Finland," Obama told a girl named Summer. She added that the sleigh was full of toys.

The first lady, on vacation with President Barack Obama and their daughters in Hawaii, volunteered for a second time in the annual NORAD Tracks Santa program, run by the North American Aerospace Defense Command.