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
urgency of the measures go into effect after another air traffic controller was caught sleeping on the job. plus, a distraught mother takes the lives of three of her children. maybe if there was something i could have done or we could have done to have prevented this. the memorial growing at the site of the unbelievable tragedy. abc 7 news at 11:00 starts now. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org we re following in developing story from fairfax county, where the police are searching for a lone gunman who opened fire at a busy shopping center. it happened at a barbershop near belle view boulevard in alexandria and the shooter may have been a former employee of the barbershop. john gonzalez has the latest. according to an employee, this gunman was an employee at the shop, but quit two months ago. today he came back to talk to the other. he allegedly walked out, came back in, and started firing. two employees were hit, one was killed. neigh
tuesday afternoon when fairfax county police say a 62-year-old woman was attacked. she was grabbed from behind by a man who pushed her down and sexually assaulted her. reporter: the victim was in the neighborhood of water lilly court helping take care of a friend. she was a friend of the family and a caretaker for an elderly member inside the home. she just went outside for something and this happened. reporter: off camera neighbors told us they ve seen extra police patrolling the area and even received e-mail alerts about the incident from those living close by. police say although they have no reason to believe the suspect will attack again, they re advising folks to keep an eye out. when it s a stranger attack, there always is a concern about anybody in the area. matt, are police saying if the attack is connected to any others? will, police say it s just too early to know, but they are looking over old cases in the same area of the county to figure out if any
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shroud of forgery, italian scientists reproduce the world s most famous piece of cloth all to prove it s fake. and making the grade. which countries rank the best and worst when it comes to quality of life. captions paid for by nbc-universal television hello. and good morning, i m lynn berry. and today, we begin with taking the offensive. the federal government is rolling out a massive campaign to fight the spread of the h1n1 virus known as the swine flu. it s a multi-billion dollar effort to in effect vaccinate america against the potentially deadly pandemic. well, the first nasal spray vaccines were made available on monday, largely to health care professionals. they, of course, are on the front lines as hospitals and clinics brace for a flood of patients. as the public clambers for their shots, some remain skeptical, concerned that the vaccine was rushed into usage. but as nbc s leanne gregg reports, h1n1 is just one part of a much larger flu season. reporter: from s