>> jeff: tonight the debate begins. >> use of chemical weapons is wrong and it can't go unpunished. >> today on this current resolution i would vote no. >> jeff: with military strikes delayed, the president saying he will seek congressional approval. syria hails a quote historic american retreat. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. elizabeth palmer in damascus. >> jeff: former south african president nelson mandela is out of the hospital. deborah in johannesburg reports on what could be mandela's final trip back home. >> jeff: we remember sir david frost, the british broadcaster who stunned the world with his richard nixon interviews. >> well, when the president does it, that means it is not reconvenes.

unofficially, it is well under way. we begin with nancy cordes on capitol hill. >> reporter: members of congress from all around the country streamed back to the capitol this holiday weekend for a classified briefing from the president's national security staff. >> have you decided how you're going to vote? >> i'm going to go to the briefing. >> reporter: most of them said they're still deciding how to vote after the president granted them the input they demanded. connecticut democrat jim heinz:

>> there's a great deal of skepticism in the room about-- about the utility, effectiveness and support that we would have for the kind of strikehat the president has proposed. >> reporter: lawmakers said they trust the administration's evidence that syria's government gassed its own people, but that may not be enough. california democrat janice hundred. >> i feel terrible about the chemical weapons that have been used. however, we know the chemical weapons have been used in other instances and we did not take military action. >> reporter: even members who had consulted with mr. obama said they were surprised by his announcement saturday that he would seek authorization from congress before acting. arizona republican john mccain was one of them. >> reporter: do you think this was mostly a political decision the president didn't want to go- it-alone without congress? >> i do not know what went into his thinking. but if that decision was to be made and in my view it should have been made a long time ago.

>> reporter: on five sunday talk shows, secretary of state john kerry insisted the white house was simply being inclusive, not indecisive. >> i think the president realized in consultations with the congress that people wanted to weigh in and he believes after thinks about it that the united states of america is much stronger when we act in concert. >> reporter: lawmakers are well aware that the president could end up looking weak abroad if congress does not back him up. but many members told us today that they feel the authorization for military action that he's seeking is simply too broad. it must be rewritten more narrowly, jeff, if it's going to have a chance of passing. >> jeff: nancy cordes thank you. in cairo arab league members urged them to take the necessary action to punish the assad regime for attacking its own citizens with chemical weapons. the league wants those responsible tried as war criminals. for reaction from syria,

elizabeth palmer is in the capitol, damascus. >> reporter: if he was relieved that u.s. military strikes are off, at least for now, president bashar al-assad didn't say so. in fact, he didn't speak to the syrian people at all in this brief appearance on television greeting a visiting iranian delegation. later a statement from his office said a u.s. threat will not change syria's principles or stop its fight against terrorism. that's the regime's term for the armed opposition. across the political spectrum they were relieved that their beloved city was intact, untouched by american strikes that many were expecting last night. not everyone here supports the assad government but neither do they want any foreign intervention in this civil war. >> we are ready to give all our blood for our country. >> reporter: yesterday president obama addressed not only americans, but syrians too.

his speech was broadcast live here. and it has left people stressed and uncertain. so the syrians are still worried? >> yeah, of course. >> i think people worry about the strike. there is a fear in their eyes. >> reporter: meanwhile syrian government troops have continued to bombard opposition fighters across the country in a war that has turned into a bloody stalemate. the main syrian opposition group the syrian national coalition today publicly urged congress to back president obama in his decision to take military action against syria. but they went a step further and said that the americans should also arm the opposition fighters better to give them an edge over government troops after any strike, jeff? >> glor: liz palmer, thank you. in south africa tonight former president nelson mandela is back home after nearly three months in a hospital.

he remains in critical condition. deborah pattah joins us from johannesburg with more. deborah? >> reporter: it was a swift and fairly seamless operation transporting nelson man-- mandela back to his home in johannesburg. his family have long wanted him to return tome but his medical team believed it was too risky to do so. it finally happened this morning. mandela made the journey safely and his home has now been reconfigured to provide the same 24 hour intensive care he was receiving in his pretoria hospital. his condition though has not changed he remains critically ill and cbs news sources say that over the past three weeks at least 24 oxygen tanks were brought here to his house and home. mandela cannot breathe on his own. he has long expressed a wish to die at home and the same sources tell us that while doctors have done their best it is now time for him to come home where he will spend his final days however long that may be, jeff.

>> jeff: deborah, thank you. a music festival in new york city was cancelled today after two people died of drug overdoses. four others had to be hospitalized after attending the electric zoo festival. city officials blame the drug ecstasy. on wednesday in boston police reported three overdoses at a operate event. one of them fatal. a summer of recoveriry up and down the jersey shore hit hard by sandy last year. major efforts were made to help those shore towns rebuild. so how did the recovery go? terrell brown has an update tonight from seaside heights. >> reporter: at the spicy can tina restaurant, labor day weekend is normally one of their busiest. but owner wayne cimorelli said unusually wet weather and delayed repairs made for a difficult summer. his business is down 15%. what were you expecting? >> i was expecting to be significantly off. and i'm off, i mean 15% doesn't sound like a lot but it is quite a bit.

>> reporter: cimorelli spent all of the off season repairing the restaurant after superstorm sandy flooded it and caused 1.3 million dollars in damage. >> when the storm hit, we didn't even know if we would be open the summer of 2013. you know, because we were wiped out, the boardwalk was eliminated. i mean it was pretty overwhelming. >> reporter: near his restaurant is where the jet star roller coaster washed into the ocean. the casino pier where it once stood is reopened but still the amusement park's numbers are down at least 25%. in a 25 million dollar ad campaign governor chris christie has touted the state's progress since the storm... >> because we're stronger than the storm. >> reporter: ...and said that 97% of the beaches are open. just because the beaches are open doesn't mean that people came. on a normal labor day weekend this beach would be packed but this season beach bag sales in seaside heights are down 28%. >> you get a false sense that we're coming back a little quicker than we are. so i think that-- i think we're going to be nervous about next

year. >> reporter: for now he's just hoping another storm won't hit the jersey shore. there's still three months left in hurricane season. terrell brown, cbs news, seaside heights, new jersey. >> jeff: the famed british broadcaster sir david frost has died. he suffered a heart attack after giving a speech on board a cruise ship last night. he made his reputation as an interview of celebrities and politicians, the most famous of which took place 36 years ago. in 1977 a man who started as a satirist landed the biggest gig in television news history. >> and there is the president waving good-bye. >> glor: david frost paid for it giving richard nixon $600,000 dollars for nixon's first interview since resigning the presidency but the gamble paid off 45 million americans watched. >> the president can decide that it's in the best interests of the nation or something, and do something illegal. >> well, when the president does it that means that it is not

illegal. >> jeff: by definition? >> exactly. >> reporter: if nixon was expecting a softball session, he got a far more serious conversation. most dramatically about watergate. >> so that is obstruction of justice. >> now just a moment. >> period. >> that's your conclusion. >> reporter: as frost elicited, the closest thing the american public ever got to an apology. >> i let down the country. >> the grand inquisitor... >> reporter: 30 years later the historic interviews were dramatized in a broadway play and a hollywood movie. >> why didn't you burn the tapes? >> reporter: frost reflected with cbs news six years ago. >> he was by far the most interesting person in the world to get to talk to. >> reporter: he was the only

broadcaster to interview the last eight british prime ministers and the last seven former american presidents. >> welcome to frost over the world. >> reporter: after a half century in broadcasting, david frost received an emmy award for lifetime achievement in 2009. >> i remember a quote of ed murrow who said this instrument television, it can entertain it can inform, and it can even inspire, but it all depends on the will of the humans who operate it. >> jeff: david frost was 74 years old. later diana nyad nearly halfway through her quest to swim from cuba from florida. and the garage gets a new kind of makeover. when the "cbs evening news" continues. new kellogg's raisin bran® with omega 3 from flax seeds. plus plump juicy raisins. flax seed? who are you? i still got it. [ male announcer ] invest in your heart health with kellogg's raisin bran® cereals.

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the question is: is there a better solution? jeff pegues looks at one experiment that is trying to keep the elderly inside their own homes. >> reporter: 72-year-old carol glover knows she has a challenge ahead if she wants to continue living at home. >> i don't want to fall. i don't want these brittle bones broken. >> reporter: but getting around is difficult. >> i knew that i was bumping into things. >> reporter: researchers say seniors living at home face hazards that can be as disabling as their medical conditions. a new pilot program called capable is looking for ways to help low income seniors avoid being injured in their own homes. like te re >> older adults like control like te re >> reporter: the johns hopkins university school of nursing sara is in charge of the program, she says the goal is preventive. >> currently if someone goes into the doctor, they're asked about their diabetes, congestive heart failure but they aren't asked can you walk across the room. can you get up off the toilet? these are the things that send

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>> jeff: the civil war was the first american conflict that was truly recorded in pictures. now for the first time since the war the same type of photography used to capture men in battle is back on the front lines. here's mark strassmann. >> reporter: 150 years later the civil war comes alive in tin type photographs like these. the blue and the gray. they died together on battlefields like antietam. photographers like matthew brady and alexander gardner with primitive cameras and horse- drawn dark rooms followed both armies right on to the

battlefield. >> this is a collection of tintypes. they are all civil war era. >> michael rose is a historian with the atlanta history center. he says civil war tintypes make us feel closer to that conflict. >> you can really look at these people and see what they were as individuals. >> these images were taken on lookout mountain right after the battle of chattanooga. one of the most photographed places of the war was right here on point lookout. the civil war was the last time tintype photography was used on the battlefield. until now. ed drew is an aerial gunner with a california air national guard and a student at the san francisco art institute. he brought an antique tintype camera on his recent tour in afghanistan to photograph his air combat unit. >> we are the guys who fly into the most dangerous locations to save people's lives. there was one aspect in particular i really wanted. that was for them to bear their soul into the camera and for it

to be shown on the actual plate. >> in tintype photography the image goes directly on to a metal plate inserted if into the camera. chemicals have to develop the negative while the plate is still wet or the image is ruined. drew's tintypes were constant challenges. the chemicals, the long exposure that required soldiers to pose motionless for up to ten seconds. afghanistan added dust, wind and combat. >> i would have guys like sitting posed and it took me like ten minutes to pose them and focus them and then suddenly i got to go, sorry guys, i got to go. in that moment they were combat airmen. but drew hoped the timelessness of tintype was show that they were people first. >> and they are in a war. some of them are scared, some of them are not, some are friends, and some are to the but they're

still people. >> and i really wanted that humanity, that human side to come out in those photos. >> tintype images, old and new remind us that the face of war hasn't changed. mark strassman, cbs news, atlanta. >> up next, not just for cars or storing junk, the great american garage when we return. garage when we return. ♪ don't you want to see me flaunt what i got? ♪ oh. ♪ don't you ♪ don't you wanna, wanna ♪ don't you ♪ don't you wanna, wanna stress sweat is different than heat and activity sweat -- it smells worse. secret clinical strength gives you four times the protection against stress sweat. live fearlessly with secret clinical strength.

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>> jeff: finally tonight for years millions of men retreated to dens or basements when looking for a home away from home. but lately more are staking out new territory as the formerly humble american garage gets a makeover. here's don dahler. >> reporter: if anthony's oceanside home in maine, doesn't make you jealous, take a look at this, this is his garage. >> icemaker, refrigerator. >> reporter: the town wouldn't let him expand the house sow put his skills as an interior designer to work. >> everything is air conditioned and heated. we could not really add to the footprint of the house. so we decided to make this a big entertaining space. he admits his car spends less time in the garage than he does. >> my car didn't complain.

>> reporter: this garage in fairfield county, connecticut cost $1 million, home to an impressive collection of supercars. it's a play room for grown-ups. the owner doesn't want to be identified but the builder rick krug gave us a tour. >> we've got reclaimed barn wood which is an eastern white pine on the walls. >> reporter: the garage features an extra parking space in the basement. >> you can park five inside the garage. >> it opens to a 700 bottle wine cellar. the luxury garage also features a kitchen, full bathroom and a wet bar. the owner wanted a place to hang out and watch football with friends. >> he gave us a general idea of what he wanted. gave us free reigns to design a space that was in keeping with his wishes and to capture his barn effect. >> reporter: a barn affect with a red ferrari sitting right behind. >> that's right. >> reporter: we should all have such a barn.

>> that's right. >> reporter: krug says his company, t.r. building, has had a 50% increase in garage projects over its past three years. not all of his jobs are as extravagant. most are upgrades to floors, walls and storage. builders across the country say they're getting more requests for nicer garages. and depending on zoning laws, these renovations can be more profitable for them than house editions because of fewer regulations. and if you think this is just a guy thing, krug says about half the requests for garage upgrades come from women. but he adds, they're doing it for their husbands. don dahler, cbs news, fairfield county, connecticut. >> jeff: that is the "cbs evening news" tonight. later on cbs, "60 minutes". i'm jeff glor, cbs news in new york. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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