theyille, the rd is obstructionists in the water to boil, or principal wjla.co -- the word is "obstructionist" if you are liberal, or principal that you are conservative. -- principled if you are conservative. >> what do democrats do to adjust? >> no regrets. we have worked very hard in our campaign to convey that to the american people. >> house speaker nancy pelosi to diane sawyer bridge a blue dog democrat -- net house speaker nancy pelosi to diane sawyer. a blue dog democrat -- "nancy pelosi should step down." >> eric sevareid -- the men run for high office to be something, the women run for office to do something. nancy pelosi has been a more effective the speaker than anybody in my lifetime. forget newt gingrich, nothing compared to her. this is a woman who rivals tip o'neill, sam rayburn, the great speakers of the house. she became the poster child to run against in 2010, and republicans ran very effectively against her. it merits a study of why she became such a lightning rod. >> does she retire? >> i hope personally that she does retire, because her legacy as speaker will stand the t

theyill be handing out citations to pedestrians and drivers between 7:00 and 9:00 a.m.1:00 p.m. the pedestrian or cyclists died every five days in the washington region in 2009. >>>amily of one of the most recent pedestria to be killed is asking for the driver who fled the scene to come forward. 71-year-old duffy clarity was struck and killed early monday rning at the intersection of south capitol street and martin luther king jr. avenue in southwest. clarity's daughter said her fatheruffered from alzheimer's. the vehicle that hit clarity may have been a mercedes. it's likely the car has damage to the front end and windshield. >>> we may finally learn who won the congressional race in the 11th district today. keith fimian will issue a statement today conceding the race. he faced gerry connolly. at last count he was trailing 981 votes but that is too big a margin to make up even if there were a recount. connolly will be back at work. he was hospitalized for sevel days with a ood clot in his artery. >>> 6:57. elaine reyes has this morning's p stories in the newsroom. good

theyill be shared by students at two grade levels at barrett carlet springs and randolph. beyond textbooks initiative is ailot program and aimed at increasing students's access to digital media. >>> tom has joined us now. 5:51 >>cold start to this friday morning. bundle up asou're heading out to work and school on this friday. down into the 30s in most locations. near freezing. play ta, 33 there. west and north we have quite a bit of cloudiness. those clouds are keeping it abe freezing. still chilly. mid-30s to near 40 degrees from the mountains all the way to the atlantic beaches. now over the last 12 hours we have had this cloud cover coming om the west and north. and it's going to be breaking up and eroding as this day does progress. we have just this weak disturbance coming through at this hour. well, last tuesday, remember the rain-soaked rain on tuesday, this is what it looked like in loudon county. i visited there with that drilling rain coming down. look at this huge sign they had at the atrium of the school. it was done by their art department. the art students, t

want to float some controversial -- this is shock therapy in terms of government spending, and maybe theyill revise some of it before it actually comes up for a vote. >> is this the kind of thing that will force votes of reblicans an democrats to get togeth. this will call a lot of people's bluff. if you want to get serious and make painful choices in the budget. here are trillions of dollars of ideas from raising taxes on gasoline to raising the age on social security. we're harpooning every whale in the sea, it was said and minnows, too. the reason it hasn't been done before is the politics are horrible. we will see how committed the white house and republicans are to makg painful choices if they really want to bring the debt down. >> everything we're hearing suggest the bush tax cuts will be extended. is that the likely scenario? >> a lot of that energy and momentum is for that, at least a period of two to three years and then get into the realm of larger deficit ideas in terms of bringing spending down. this is a really likely area for the president to sand side by side with speaker boeh