>> ines ferre in washington. thank you, inez. >>> well, the polls are open in iran where voters are choosing a new president. more than 50 million iranians are eligible to vote. there are six candidates in the race to succeed mahmoud ahmadinejad, a moderate, four conservatives, and a hardliner. iran's president does not set major policies, iran's clerics and revolutionary guards do that. >>> former south african president nelson mandela remains in serious condition as he recovers from a lung infection in a pretoria hospital, but mandela's health is improving according to south africa's president. mandela has been hospitalized since saturday. he is 94 years old. >>> and coming up on the "morning news," sky-high flames. a massive explosion at louisiana chemical plant causes extensive casualties. you're watching the "cbs morning news." casualties. you're watching the "cbs morning news." female announcer ] love. it's the most powerful thing on the planet. love holds us in the beginning. comforts us as we grow old. lo

ines ferre on how the u.s. is now preparing to step up its involvement in the country's two-year civil war. >> reporter: u.s. officials say they now have definitive proof syrian president bashar assad ordered the use of sarin gas killing as many as 150 people. deputy national security advisor ben rose says syria has gone too far. >> the president has made it clear that the use of chemical weapons or transfer of chemical weapons to terrorist groups is a red line. >> reporter: in response, the u.s. will now start providing more military support to rebel fighters. >> if we do not address the chemical weapons compromise in syria and end this war before these chemical weapons flow out of syria, not only will israel be in the cross hair of radical islams with the weapons of mass destruction capability it's only a matter of time that they come here! >> reporter: news of the president's decision to support the rebels was met with general approval here on capitol hill on both sides of the aisle. even if he didn't spell

ines ferre has the very latest. >>> reporter: chairs and tables are still floating in the water the morning after a deck collapsed at a popular miami area sports bar. authorities say there were about 100 people packed on the deck of shucker's bar & grill. they were watching the miami heat playing the nba finals when just before halftime -- >> just hear crunch, crunch, curiosity and then bam, pillar coming down, pillar, pillar, and people screaming, people yelling, people hitting the water. >> reporter: dozens of people fell into the water when the deck gave way. tables, chairs and umbrellas fell on top of many of them. other customers jumped in to help. >> we pulled people out and up and moved chairs and tables and so forth. >> reporter: divers searched the water to make sure no one was trapped under the debris. 24 people were taken to area hospitals. most of the injured had cuts and bruises. but two victims are in serious condition. ines ferre for cbs news. >> city inspectors will investigate to see what caused the collapse. >>> developing news about the wildfires in colorado. firefighters

states senate, senator ben nelson of nebraska left the senate last year, and he founded a lobbying ferre ini. left the senate, now in a lobbying firm. texas senator hutchison, and now senator jon kyl 26 year, left the senate in january to join a lobbying firm. whatever happened to old senator evan berybod evan bayh? lobbyist. and dorgan, lobbyist. doud, l doud, lobbyist and senator blanche lincoln gone from the senate and now is a lobbyist. judd greg, senator, now lobbyist and scott brown. remember scott brown of massachusetts? what's become of him? this one is really interesting. actually, just kidding. this one's not interesting at all. scott brown did what they all did and went to work for a lobbying firm as well. that's how it works. just like the rest of them. the loss of that particular senate seat, the loss of that senate seat enables scott brown to finish his ex senator destiny, high-end lobbying firm doing the bidding of the financial industry, even though on a personal level the loss of that u.s. senate seat ended up the way these guys all end up. basically naked, shameless, co

states senate, senator ben nelson of nebraska left the senate last year, and he founded a lobbying ferree, now in a lobbying firm. texas senator hutchison, and now senator jon kyl 26 year, left the senate in january to join a lobbying firm. whatever happened to old senator evan berybod evan bayh?

demog are a ferre has famously phased it and asked the question, what are the consequences for a society that has chosen to become simultaneously more gray and more male? the missing daughters by the tens of millions in china as a direct result of sex-selection abortion. in 2000, mr. speaker, i authored a law that is known as the trafficking victims protection act of 2000. it is our landmark law in combating the hideous crime of modern-day slavery. sex and labor trafficking. china has now become the magnet for the traffickers. buying and selling women as commodities, selling them in china against their will, of course, through coercion, because of the missing girls, the missing daughters and the missing young women. mr. speaker, earlier this week the world remembered the dream that was and is the teatman square protest of 1989. and deeply honored the sacrifice endured by an extraordinarily brave group of prodemocracy chinese women and men who dared to demand fundamental human rights for all chinese. 24 weeks ago this week, the world watched in awe and wonder as it had since mid april of