and can you see the countdown at the top of your screen. look at the vice president and her husband will be there to speak. this is the first time a woman and a person of color has gone to the moon. steve: that is ultimately the goal. this particular flight though will be unmanned. they will have three test mannequins strapped in to figure out what radiation effects and everything else. you will see it live if it goes off on our show. it s all about the heat shield, they say because it s a test flight. the idea is to make sure that the heat shield can protect the people inside and they really won t know that until it comes back. brian: yeah, i mean, you got to you are going to watch two rockets disengaged and then ultimately just be the orion craft that will go into the moon s orbit, whip around a few times and then come back octobe. so that s a 42-day mission. and we ll probably cover all 42 days. steve: you know what, brian, you are probably right. we will mention i
teachers to walk off the job. and not even the teachers unions are immune from being struck against. 48 field employees with the national education association voted this week to authorize a strike. over at the other major teachers union, american federation of teachers president posted on x, formerly twitter, article with the headline what s behind the increase in home schooling. she says it s because of gun violence, bullying and a lack of services for special needs students. but a lot of people in the comments pointed out also because of powerful teachers unions pushing for school closures during the pandemic and pushing for progressive curriculum. so, i guess school s out for november over there in portland. sandra: oh, man, we ll be watching that. thank you. right now by the way, as we top a brand-new hour here, president biden sitting down with xi jinping the first time in a year, and a lot of catching up to go. live shot of the balloon going down. it has been
Three weeks after a man police say was the leader of a Metro Atlanta car theft ring was arrested, Gwinnett County police have now identified a second suspect in the crimes.
back and robbed us again a few weeks later and was released again. and that s what we are so angry about. i think this guy had 30 or 40 priors. and keeps getting let out of jail. brian: you can t get any cops and then when you finally get a criminal they can t stay in jail so the cops say i m not even going to waste my time writing this guy up and the stats are staggering. minnesota overall 21% increase in crime. in terms of murders up 8%. aggravated assaults up 33%. so, motor theft up 9%. so, this is a sense of lawlessness and all you are trying to do is make a living. how does this go down? do they just walk into your bartender and say empty your drawer and go to your back room? yeah, these are burglaries that have happened over the night. we have had them break. in they know police aren t going to arrive. alarms and sirens going off. stuff that used to scare criminals away. now they take their time. they brake up to your office upstairs.