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Richmond public schools in virginia. superintendent, thank you so much for joining me this morning. obviously it's very concerning. first off, when does school start for richmond public schools. i understand you have 140 vacancies for teachers from preschool to high school. what are you doing to try to attract teachers to fill these jobs? >> good morning. well, school starts on monday, august 29th. we're very excited to welcome everybody back. we are now done to about 120 classroom teacher vacancies. one of the things that we have done is offer some pretty robust incentives. so anybody moving ...

Planned for late august but the rollout to the launch pad began last night as you can see here. let's bring in space correspondent kristin fisher. so slow, so exciting this move to the launch pad. >> it's so slow, brianna, it takes all night long about ten hours. this vehicle transporting the rocket to the launch pad it can only go about .8 miles per hour, so it may not look like much, but what you're seeing there is about, you know, more than a decade in the making, several billion dollars. it is now arriving at the launch pad and we have not seen a nasa-built rocket bound for the moon arrivi...

Itself or the crawler that got the rocket to the launch pad. those crawlers were built back in the 1960s, designed to carry the saturn 5 rocket to the launch pad during the pap low program. the difference is back then the united states was in a space race with russia to get to the moon, now nasa's primary competitor in getting astronauts back to the moon is china, they are trying to do the exact same thing. a lot of people wonder, hey, didn't we do this back in the '60s? weren't we doing this back in the '70s? nasa sending astronauts to the moon. the when a. en is yes but they have to do it ag...

On that front. they have given the administration, a deadline of august 29th to offer these documents, hallie. >> thanks to you both. andrew, let me bring you in. let me start with the passports. i want to bring a note of caution on this, because all we have is a truth social post from the former president saying the fbi took three of his passports, one of which was expired. we don't know if that's true. we don't know if that's the case. those passports are not on the affidavit, the receipt of property list that the department of justice asked and was unsealed. what does this tell you, though,...

Moon-focused space launch system, a four to six-week journey to the moon and back. cnn's kristin fisher. nasa administrator, bill nelson, calls this the most powerful rocket ever built. what can it do? >> eventually it's going to take american astronauts back to the moon, hopefully by 2025 if all goes according to plan. what we learned today in this briefing is nasa is rolling this out to the launch pad. in about two weeks on august 18th, it will launch on august 29th. from there it will circle the moon. it will take about a few weeks and splash back down in the ocean. again, that's artemis 1,...