collins, graham, gregg, lugar, and snowe, joined the majority democrats. the only democrat voting no was nelson of nebraska. kagan takes the place of the now-retired john paul stevens on the liberal wing of the court which includes justices breyer, ginsburg, and sotomayor. the conservatives are scalia, thomas, and alito with kennedy often the swing vote. in missouri today, mothers and fathers got the kind of phone call ever parent dreads-- their children were involved in a terrible accident. they were aboard two buses carrying high school students from st. james to an amusement park outside st. louis. just 10 miles from their destination the buses slammed into the wreckage of an earlier accident. one of the children on the buses was killed, dozens more injured. cynthia bowers has more. >> reporter: it's an annual trip the band members look forward to all summer. >> it was going to be a good day and it turned into such a terrible day. >> reporter: two buses, the first one filled with girls, the second with boys, were headed for six flags amusement park when they were caught in a horrific collision, a chain- reaction crash, witnesses say, that happened i