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Barack obama's nominee for defense secretary. if that's true and the senate confirms him he will replace chuck hagel. carter has served as deputy defense secretary under hagel and leon panetta. there's a showdown brewing over immigration reform in the u.s. republican leaders of the house of representatives plan to challenge president obama's executive order on the issue. but house members and aides tell cnn they'll try to delay that challenge to avoid a government shutdown next week. dana bash has more. >> reporter: homeland security secretary jay johnson came to capitol hill knowing he'd be...

Another showdown brewing over the president's border plan. with the ink barely dry on the president's nearly $4 billion plan to halt the flood of undocumented immigrants republicans in congress have said no deal. >> they have asked for a blank check and an awful lot of money coming to tens of thousands of dollars for each one of these children. >> reporter: nearly half of the $3.7 proposal is to care for unaccompanied minors from central america. the rest goes to detention and removal costs, more border patrols and surveillance and immigration legal teams to speed up deportation proceedings. a...

Heroes.com. a contentious showdown brewing in nevada. militia members are joining forces with a rancher who is locked in a standoff with the federal government. you can see the dispute get physical in this youtube video. authorities say a protester got tazed at one point and a police dog was kicked. the government says he owed more than $1 million in grazing fees. last week, they started rounding up his cattle. in kansas city, everyone still talking about the case of the chimp on the lam. seven of them actually. seven chimpanzees got out of their enclosure. a tree fell in the exhibit, one ...

She was having trouble breathing. i know that we are so lucky that she's here, and i know that many families go through losing a child, so we are so grateful that sophia is with us today, and she's going to do amazing things. >> i'm sure she will. all of the children being studied were vaccinated against polio. doctors studying the syndrome say it's extremely rare. they say all the cases have been reported in california and only in the past 18 months. >> still a mystery. a diplomatic showdown brewing with ukraine set to form a new government, and russia refusing to acknowledge the new govern...

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