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caring my baby to bury my baby. >> reporter: the countdown begins. nasa prepares for a return to the moon, this time with much bigger ambitions. cbs' mark strassmann reports tonight from the kennedy space center. >> we want to ultimately end up on mars. >> garrett: as many kids hemoree parents are turning to home schooling. cbs' kris van cleave shows us why. and cbs' steve hartman goes "on the road." >> this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> garrett: good evening, everyone. thank you for joining us. i'm major garrett in for norah....

Three kids outside of louisville, kentucky. >> it's really nice to have the freedom to pick and choose what works best and things that work for the children's learning chiles. >> reporter: home schooling in the bluegrass state has surged since 2018. >> i think there are quite a few reasons uto be honest. some are health related. some are religious purposes. class sizes are getting bigger. >> reporter: for angie blunk, it's about her granddaughter's safety. >> i just think about, you know, like the shootings and things like that, like, can you imagine the trauma? >> reporter: this increase isn'...

i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight, ratings agency fitch affirms of the united states aaa credit rating but says guess what, we're going to downgrade your outlook to negative from stable. this happened after the markets closed. obviously, something negative and all relate the to the lack of action and the failure of the supercommittee, still stocks is soared on wall street. because the markets closed before that action happened. the dow up by nearly 300 points. the reason was a wow weekend for the american economy. retail sales over thanksgiving surged. that's a fair word. they were ...