>> axelrod: tonight, congress beats the clock for now. the house narrowly averts a shutdown of the department of homeland security, but it's no victory for house speaker john boehner. outrage in russia over the murder of boris nemtsov, vladimir putin's most outspoken critic. oliver's new heart. the delicate surgery to save the life of a boy just six days old. and the surprise kitten, the runaway llamas. they only went viral. why did the dress go atomic? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. this is the western edition of the broadcast. we begin tonight at the intersection of politics and national security.

just hours before funding was to run out for the department of homeland security, shutting down the cabinet department whose main job is protecting the u.s. from terror attacks. congress passed a stopgap measure that will keep homeland security open another week. a group of republicans in the house want to tie full funding of d.h.s. to overturning president obama's immigration policies. last night's last-minute vote just delays another showdown and illuminates a growing challenge to the speaker of the house, john boehner, with members of his own party. julianna goldman begins our coverage. >> the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. >> reporter: the 11th hour deal was reached after a chaotic and messy day of deal making that highlighted deep divisions between republicans. earlier friday, house speaker john boehner had tried to pass a three-week funding extension for the department, but he and his leadership team were defeated by their own rank and file who refused to support the measure that left intact president obama's immigration actions.

texas congressman louie gomert voted against both bills. >> mr. president, you have usurped far too much power. we can't let you destroy the constitution any further. we are taking a stand. >> reporter: to avoid the partial shutdown, boehner had to rely on votes from democrats. house minority leader nancy pelosi said their support came with the promise that there would be a vote next week on a clean bill to fund d.h.s. through september. >> and we believe that within the next seven days, hopefully five, that we will have a bill that takes us to the end of the year, end of the fiscal year. >> reporter: but an aide to boehner tells cbs news the speaker made no such deal with pelosi. the funding dispute over an agency tasked with counter- terrorism is a major test for republicans who took control of congress two months ago on a promise to govern effectively. there isn't a clear path for boehner to unite his party's factions and tensions run deep.

in a tweet earlier this week new york congressman pete king said: congressman pete king said: the aide to speaker boehner said the next step is to try to get house and senate negotiators to go into conference monday over the president's immigration actions but senate democrats have said they'll block those negotiations so, jim, expect plenty of twists and turns between now and friday. >> axelrod: julianna goldman from our washington bureau thank you. let's bring in our congressional correspondent nancy cordes and cbs news political director john dickerson. john, first to you, you hear noises from the most conservative wing of the republican party threatening a revolt against john boehner. is there any possibility of this? >> reporter: well, those conservatives are angry with john boehner because they would like to use the power of the purse to fight back against the president's immigration policies, but john boehner is not in any trouble because those conservatives who are upset with him don't have a candidate to run against him. there aren't enough of them. they don't have a leader.

and there are even fewer of those conservatives who are angry with boehner than there were in the last congress. >> axelrod: so nancy, if, as john is telling us, there is not going to be any revolt, how fractured is the republican party in the house? >> reporter: well, that's one of the downsides of having such a large majority. you have a variety of viewpoints and a conservative wing of the members who say they came to washington to hold the president's feet to the fire by whatever means possible, even if that's uncomfortable. and then a sort of more pragmatic wing, which includes the speaker of the house saying yes, but you have to practice the art of the possible and you have to know when your legislative strategy has no end game. >> axelrod: meanwhile, the conservative political action conference just announced the results of its 2015 straw poll. kentucky senator rand paul, the winner. wisconsin's governor scott walker right behind him, and then ted cruz. john, any surprise here? >> reporter: no, there are no surprises. the rand paul, or his father ron paul, have been consistent winners recently. but it's good news for scott

walker who has been on a bit of a run. he's had some stumbles, also though in the press. and so for him to come out near the top with a conservative group, it helps him shore up his argument, which is that he has strong support in the conservative base of the party and, plus as a governor he has governing experience. >> axelrod: nancy, it's february 2015, how important is this straw poll? what does it translate to in terms of money and momentum? >> reporter: it's really a badge of honor and for somebody like scott walker to come in second who was for a long time seen as a second-tier candidate. but cpac has kind of an uneven track record of predicting who the republican nominee will be and we'll see a lot more of these kinds of polls and straw polls between now and the iowa caucusaise year from now. >> axelrod: nancy cordes and john dickerson, thank you both very much. this programming note-- john boehner will be john dickerson's

guest tomorrow morning when he sits in for bob sheiffer heave on "face the nation." in russia tonight there are many questions surrounding last night's murder of boris nemtsov. he is the most prominent opposition figure killed during president vladimir putin's 15- year rule. as charlie d'agata reports nemtsov had been planning to release a report that he said would show the government's direct involvement in the uprising. >> reporter: his lifeless body lay on the sidewalk, gunned down, shot four times in the back. 55-year-old boris nemtsov, who just hours before denounced what he called vladimir putin's mad aggressive policies, during a radio interview. >> when power is concentrateed in the hands of one person he said, and that person rules forever, it will lead to an absolute catastrophe." a former russian prime minister

now opposition expressed the sense of intimidation now taking hold in russia. >> we feel and we see more and more extreme, extreme expressions against liberal democrats, against us. >> reporter: as shocked russians laid flowers on the bridge that marked the spot of nemtsov's death, putin's spokesman said the president called it a cruel murder that has all the markings of a contract hit and a provocation. his lead investigators raised all kinds of possible motives from nemtsov's on a conflict in ukraine, to a personal attack because of his private life, to a plot to destabilize the state. boris nemtsov was a former deputy prime minister and once thought to be a potential presidential successor to boris yeltsin. and now, he joins a list of kremlin critics to die in dramatic circumstances. a renowned russian journalist critical of the kremlin's policies in chechnya shot dead

in her apartment elevator. alexander litvinenko, former russian intelligence officer poisoned with tea laced with radioactive polonium in london in 2006. nemtsov made it clear repeatedly he feared for his life because of his outspoken view periods president putin, jim, and he was supposed to lead a peace really against russia's involvement in ukraine on sunday. instead, a memorial march will be held in his honor tomorrow. >> axelrod: charlie d'agata reporting for us tonight from our london newsroom. charlie, thank you. now to the brutal winter we have been having and a narrow escape for a youth hockey team outside boston. they were practicing at this rink in canton when the roof began to buckle under the weight of the piled up snow. everyone made it out before the collapse. meanwhile, boston could break its record for most snow ever in a winter when another storm moves in tomorrow. it's not just boston setting records. syracuse, rochester, and

buffalo, new york, are about to break records going back more than a century for coldest month ever. the average temperature this month in bangor, maine, just 6 degrees. today, south florida was hit with heavy thunderstorms and 50- mile-per-hour winds. streets were flooded in miami. maggie newland of wfor reports. >> reporter: up to six inches of heavy rain fell in miami today flooding streets and neighborhoods. floridians were surprised. >> unbelievable. where did this come from? >> it's just a mess. i my kay planned to go to miami beach. aah! >> reporter: even main roads like biscayne boulevard were almost impassable. >> so maybe i wasn't supposed to come out today. >> reporter: and these cars were up to their headlights in water. >> it's kind of raining a lot. i have never seen this street flood. >> reporter: while some residents got around on two wheels, those drivers who had to be on the road used extra caution. >> i'm trying to drive slow right now because i don't know if my car can, you know, take all that water.

that's a lot of water. >> reporter: this kind of wet weather is uncommon for south florida, where it's still considered the dry season, but the 5-6 inches downtown miami saw today is more than double than what it usually sees for the entire month of february. according to the national weather service, all this rain is the result of a cold front that moved south yesterday but returned north today as a warm front. that system destabilized the atmosphere allowing storms to form over south florida. >> axelrod: britain's prince william is in japan and the excitement greeting him is as much about the memory of his mother as the prince himself. here's seth doane. >> reporter: there's a fair amount of pageantry when a prince comes to town, and that's something the japanese know well. today, prince william tried on a traditional warrior outfit during a visit to a japanese tv station, where he also checked out the anchor desk. the press in japan have been referring to prince william as

diana's firstborn heir, a nod to just how much the japanese loved his mother, princess diana. "i shed tears the day of princess diana's funeral," this woman said. "today, i remembered her and my heart was filled with joy." the duke laid a wreath to honor british and commonwealth soldiers who died as prisoners of war in japan during world war ii. and today visited an area ravaged by the march 2011 earthquake and tsunami. he played with kids in an area 40 miles from where the nuclear reactor melted down. it was a high-profile photo op to show japan bouncing back. seth doane, cbs news, beijing. >> axelrod: up next, a remarkable story of a tiny patient and tremendous challenges. the operation to save oliver.

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at the corner of happy and healthy. >> axelrod: so >> axelrod: so, did you see this dress or this one? it was the question of the week, after all. jericka duncan on why the question of what color is it had such a hold on us. >> reporter: we live in a world that expects us to choose one or the other. you're either for the bill or against it.

a fan of the super bowl champions or not. east coast or west coast. but never has a simple question on the internet-- >> i see white and gold. >> i see black and blue. >> reporter: turned into such a heated international debate. >> that is black for me. >> that is not black! >> reporter: internet media company buzzfeed said the dress photo was viewed more than 30 million times in 24 hours, a new record. editor rachel zarrell explained what made this post more explosive than others. >> it doesn't really fit into a category. it applies to anyone. anyone can have an opinion on it because all you need to do is look at it and it's very visual. people were sharing it on mobile, showing it to friend at the bar. >> reporter: all day neuroscientists and vision experts weighed in on why we're seeing anything but the black and blue dress that it actually is. >> for people who only saw the white and gold, is something wrong? i mean, really, i'm asking? >> no. >> i mean this seriously. i don't mean it in a facetious--

i know that sounds facetious. >> reporter: today a blogger wrote, "say no to the dress." and to the dress-like debates of your life. >> blue and black. >> reporter: like the one over this photo. >> that is a white dress with gold trim because that's what it is. >> reporter: that has given us quite a snapshot of how we react when we see something so differently from someone else. jericka duncan, cbs news, new york city. >> axelrod: and that is the "cbs evening news" for tonight. later on cbs, "48 hours." for now, i'm jim axelrod in new york, and for all of us here at cbs news, thanks for joining us and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org access.wgbh.org

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