clinton in today's democratic caucuses. republicans are casting votes in south carolina, where polls will clcle just about 30 minutes from now. the emotional farewell to supreme court justice antonin scalia. the harrowing final words from the doomed ship "el faro." >> the clock is ticking. >> axelrod: and a suburban village deploying big-city surveillance tactics. is this the town that knows too much? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. we begin with a campaign 2016 update from nevada where cbs news projects hillary clinton has defeated bernie sanders in today's democratic caucuses. have a look at the numbers as the count continues at this point, clintononith 52% to sanders' 48%. on the republican side, polls

an hour at 7:00 eastern time. we have both contests covered, arting with nancy cordes and the democratstsn las vegas. nancy. >> reporter: jim, this is a huge relief for the clinton camp after a brutal loss in new hampshire a week and a half ago. clinton herself took the stage here at caesar's palace in las vegas about 15 minutes ago. take a listen to what she had to say. >> i want to thank each and every one of you. you turned out in every corner of the state with determination and purpose. hotel and casino workers who never wavered. ( chchrs and applause ) tens of thousands of men and women with kids to raise, bills to pay, and dreams that won't die. this is your campaign. ( applause ) and it is-- >> reporter: in a statement, senator sanders said, "i just spoke to secretary clinton and

here in nevada. i am very proud of the campaign we ran. five weeks ago we were 25 points behind, and we ended up in a very close election." and, indeed, the clintonon camp got a big scare earlier this week when polls showed her huge longtime lead had essentially evaporated. but she really barnstormed the vegas strip over the past couple of days, meeting with casino workers and dish washers and maids. in fact, we attended a caucus here at caesar's earlier today. we met a maid who had met hillary clinton twice in the past week, and it really seems like that geographical f fus here in las vegas paid off for clinton. here is the big group, though, that clinton has to thank for her victory-- women. according to our entrance polls, they broke for clinton 51% to 47%. and they turned out in greater numbers than men. so that was a big turnaround from new hampshire where she lost among women by 11 points.

ctory, voters over 45 wenen for clinton 66% to 31%, jim. >> axelrod: nancy cordes with the winning numbers for hillary clinton in nevada. nancy, thank you. now to the republican race, the polls will remain open until the carolina. major garrett joins us fro >> reporter: jim, state officials predicted record turnout. south carolina is famous for hard-fought, competitive primaries, and voters who make up their mind late in the process. donald trump has predicted victory here. meanwhile, ted cruz and marco rubio have worked overtime to close the gap. >> it's s unch time, folks. it's crunch time. you know what that means, right? >> reporter: at donald trump's last rally before the south carolina primary, he urged supporters to give him a mandate. >> you're going to say to yoursesees, "that was one of the great evenings and one of the great days of your lives." >> reporter: the size of trump

second primary victory for the billionaire real estate developer. >> please remember to vote for marco rubio today. >> reporter: volunteers for marco rubio worked the phones on primary day. rubio is battling ted cruz for second place. cruz has flooded state with tv ads, phone calls, and mailers and volunteers, likely not enough to catch trump but perhaps enough to keep him in range. >> governor bush has a proven nservative record. >> reporter: a small band of jeb bush volunteers looked for a ray of hope. >> i feel great. i'm always excited on election day. >> reporter: while bush hunted votes in greenville, a fourth place finish or worse could prove fatal. facing a trump victory, bush, unelectable. simple. this isn't about appealing to legitimate. he can't be president. >> reporter: we interviewed trump friday and he told us he doesn't fear a smaller g.o.p. field once his competitors start to drop out. >> i'm going to get a lot of

shrinks-- i'm at 35, 42, i have polls all over the place-- but i'm already up into the 40s in many polls. when the field shrinks i'm going to get a lot. >> reporter: john kasich arrived here with almost no support and has begun to catch on. advisers now hope he could surpass bush. >> there will be a scramble right up till the last ballot is caststbut what i do know is we're going to do far better than what the pundits thought we were going to do, and, you know, we're going to do a lot better than 1% or 2% of the vote here. >> reporter: when all the votes are counted, the battle will not only be over who finished where but who deified or who fell short of expectations. jim, the mystical powers of money and momentum will mirror that conversation. >> axelrod: major, thank you. now, for analysis of this big day in presidential politics, we want to bring in the man standing next to you, major, bob schieffer, who has covered every presidential election since 1968. bob, let's start with hillary clinton, who is headed your way now. does her win in nevada today steady her ship for south

primary a week from today? >> reporter: you know, i think it means that her ship is not taking on water like it was. this would have been a very embarrassing defeat if this had been even a close win for hillary clinton. this is not as big as they would have probably hoped for, but i think there's a great sigh of relief. she's won. this will give her a little bump going into south carolina where, if predictions hold, she will win decisively over bernie sanders because of the large black vote there. jim. >> axelrod: all right, bob. so let's talk republicans. it has been a week of vivid headlines with donald trump, with his dust-up with the pope, taking on george w. bush. just today, mr. trump wondered via a tweet ifr. obama would have attended justice scalia's funeral if it were neld a mosque. you have been talking to a lot of trump supporters. how does this kind of coverage affect his connection with his supporters? >> reporter: you know, i was

i have to say, his supporters at that rally love him. but we have been reporting earlier this week that some of his support seemed to be declining in south carolina. and we're seeing an indication in some of these exit polls that, that may actually be true. one of the questions we asked voters, "who do you think has conducted the most unfair campaign down here?" and it was trump by about 40%. he was leading among those who considered himonducting those-- those conducting an unfair campaign. so this may tell us that he's not going to win here by as much as he thought he was. >> axelrod: okay bob schieffer, and major garrett, thank you both so much. a week after he died while vacationing in texas, supreme court antonin scalia was laid to rest today after his funeral in wawaington. our c cef legal correspspdent

>> reporter: the bells tolled 79 times for justice scalia, one for each year of his life, as his casket was carried bothe basilica. thousands of mourners gathered to pay final respects for a legal giant, the court's most influential conservative voice. >> let us pray. >> reporter: scalia's son, the reverend paul scalia, led the mass, delivering a moving and personal homily. >> but more important to us and to him, he was dad. sure, he forgot our names at times or mixed them up. ( laughter ) but there are nine of us. ( laughter ) he loved us. and sought to show that love. >> repepter: with those memories, there was humor. >> he had found himself in my confessional line.

and he quickly departed it. ( laughter ) as he put it later, "like heck if i'm confessing to you." >> reporter: all eight justices were in attendance. justice clarence thomas, the only justice to speak, read scripture from the book of romans. >> because the love of god has poured out into our hearts. >> reporter: it was the second day of official mourning for scalia, who lay in repose friday at the supreme court. people were still waiting in line late friday night to pay respects to a man who left a lasting imprint on the law and whose sudden death leaves a void on the court that will be difficult to fill. now, justice scalia's burial was private and by tomorrow, with the end of the official mourning, washington will immediately turn its focus on to the battle over his successor. jim. >> axelrod: jan, thank you. now w the clash betweeee apple and the f.b.i. this week, apple announced it

unlock an iphone belonging to one of the san bernardino terrorists, citing privacy concerns. let's bring in cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger. a lot of angles to this story, jill. let's look at the business angle and what this could mean to apple's brand. >> reporter: you know, it's amazing. apple fans, , ey are so loyal. we look at marketing surveys and they say, "part of the reason we love apple is because of the privacy." right after this thing went public, we saw twitter light up with people saying, "thank you, apple," with a special hashtag. this is part of apple's brand promise-- privacy, security. and i think that's part of the battle. >> axelrod: new york police department deputy commissioner john miller said yesterday, hang othere were iphones in the pockets of people killed in california and paris as well. so in a way this is also a lose-lose for apple. >> reporter: absolutely. in facte know that john's boss, mr. bratton, the commissioner said this was corporate irresponsibility. and i think apple is a little bit concerned because they may make people upset about, hey,

this is natioiol security. but, on the other hand, again, this is part of the promise. and, frankly, what if these people get upset and say, hey, apple's not going to do this. we'll go somewhere else. maybe another company will do it. >> axelrod: steve job's, apple's founder, famously apolitical. the current c.e.o., tom cook, not so much. >> reporter: wanting to be part of the topic. very supportive upon l.g.b.t. issues, very supportive of environmental issues. i think he beleleves this is a papa of hisegacy air, moral legacy at apple and i think it will be interesting to see if it helps him sell more iones macs. >> axelrod: thank you. now to chicago, where it really was the windy city last night, gusts up to 60 miles per hour, left roads blokdz by downed power lines and forced the cancellation of more than 160 flights. more than 100,000 people in the area lost power.

pacific nation of fiji are recovering from the first category 5 cyclone ever to hit there. at least one person has died. more now from carter evans. >> reporter: with gusts up to 224 miles per hour, winston may be the most powerful cyclone ever in the southern hesphere. as it slammed into the island nation, fiji's prime minister took to social media with a warning. >> it's as big and as bad as it gets. and it's currently the biggest storm in the world. >> reporter: sustained winds of 180 miles per hour continued through the night. by daybreak, the damage became apparent. fiji's government declared a state of natural disaster for 30 days, the most immediate concern-- ensuring the nation's 900,000 residents are safe. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> axelrod: coming up, new revelationing about the sinking of the "el faro," including the

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is that what you thought the got it? >> no. no. we were looking at-- at stolen crimes. >> reporter: after only three months, the freeport cameras have tracked 17 million plates in a village of 50,000. in exchange for the security, the police are drowning in data. overtime is way up. now the chief is asking state and federal governments for help. >> we currently have a force of 95 officers. we could use many more. make mistakes. this one misread the 800 number on this ryder truck for the plate of a stolen car. and there's the question of up. jason starr of the american civil liberties union. >> all of that data is being stored somewhere. it can be shared. it can be pulled. it can be sent to other law enforcement agencies. parties. >> reporter: license plate state.

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mermaid that took 14 hours alone. in one year, lund logged 13,857 miles, the distance from victoria to tokyo and back. does your wife begrudge you the love affair you're carrying on with the road? >> i think of all of those people who, you know, spend that time sitting idly in front of a tv or in front of youtube. i think that my time commitment in the big picture isn't all that excessive. >> reporter: now the cycling artist is urging others to get out and g.p.s. their own doodles. >> it's just so easy to go out and experiment and explore and do something creative. >> reporter: what goes around comes around. contessa brewer, cbs news, new york. >> axelrod: recapping today's headlines in the race for president. hillary clinton has won the democratic caucuses in nevada. have a look at the latest numbers from nevada as the count comes in. on the republican side, polls are about to close in south

where six candidates are on the ballot, some in a fight for campaign survival. and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. later on cbs, "48 hours." but first, as the polls are about to close in south carolina, we are learning a great deal about the republican primary. we'll have an update on that at the top of the hour right here on cbs. for now, i'm jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org right now on your cbs 2 news - - neck-and-neck in nevada. hillary clinton and bernie sanders battle it out - - and who's looking for a big showing in south carolina.

heat.eastern iowa enjoys a major melt down - amid sun-shine and warm >> feeling the heat. enjoy this february thaw. meltdown amid sunshine and warm temperatures. how long we can enjoy this february thaw. good evening. thanks for joining us right now. we are following a huge night for both the democratic and republican candidates running for president. the polls just closed in south carolina for the republican presidential primary. donald trump is way ahead in recent polls and expects another first place finish after winning in new hampshire. results should come in over the next few hours. we'll have the latest on our cbs2iowa.com website and on the news at 10:00. out west, hillary clinton is celebrating a crucial win in her bid for president. clinton edged out bernie sanders in the democratic caucuses in nevada. returns show her only a few

nevada is the first contest to sample who in the latino community will come out to support her for president. clinton claimed her victory just a few minutes ago. >> we hear you. we see you. we're incredibly grateful to you. it's because we're in this together. we look at our country and see so much that isn't working the way it should. >> analysts say sanders could now face a big challenge as the campaign moves to the southern states. polling shows minority voters there favor clinton. the democratic primary in south carolina is next saturday. today in washington, a funeral mass for the late supreme court justice an scalia. the largest catholic church in the country.