for compromise. now is the time for action. the era of deficit denial has to end. reporter: it took congress months, until today, to finish the 2011 budget. that was steve handelsman reporting. a woman is in critical condition tonight after being hit by a car in bethesda. it happened on river road in the intersection with river falls parkway. police say the 76-year-old woman was not in a cross walk when she was hit. the driver involved in the accident did stay on the scene. traffic on river road has been seriously impacted because of the investigation there. the man in charge of the nation s air traffic control is out of a job after a series of incidents in which air traffic controllers fell asleep at work. nbc news has learned there have been five incidents in less than two months including the one at reagan national airport on march 23rd. kristen dahlgren reports on what federal aviation leaders are doing about it. 2:00 a.m. wednesday a medevac d plane circles