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Good morning, Washington. As the situation in Congress over a compromise on the country’s debt issues drags into another day, there are many who are concerned about what a potential federal default could mean for the District. Yesterday, D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown called on the Council to break from recess and meet on Monday in order to discuss a contingency plan with the Mayor and the Chief Financial Officer, just in case the feds fail to come to an agreement. There are a bevy of bad consequences for the city should the debt ceiling not be raised, ranging from an increase in borrowing costs, a short-term cash drought, higher interest rates on real estate transactions, and a doomsday situation which could see the return of the financial control board — and that’s all before we think about whether or not a default would force a portion of the District’s heavily-federal workforce into furlough.

Candid Camera: Cameras inside Metrobuses designed to help drivers navigate traffic are serving another valuable purpose — busting tons of driver misbehavior. Kytja Weir reports that video footage of bus drivers speeding, running red lights and talking on cell phones has led to 20 firings and 222 suspensions over the last five months. The cameras, installed in November, have also forced WMATA to admit that a higher percentage of bus accidents were “preventable.”

Blame Canada: The land of ice hockey and Tim Horton’s was less than neighborly to local indie band Deleted Scenes on Monday. City Paper reports that the group had 47 records, 88 CDs and about 50 T-shirts — that’s around $1,600 in merch — confiscated at the Canadian border after a miscommunication with the border patrol. The merch will apparently be destroyed, including the records, the packaging for which was all handmade.

Summer in the City: Sounds like a good day to get out of work early and head to the beach: a heat advisory is back in effect today, as is a Code Orange air quality warning. It won’t be quite as hot as it was last Friday, but still somewhat miserable.

Briefly Noted: Possible breakthrough in Pershing Park police log deletion saga…People’s District posters empty storefronts on First Street NE…Cycling advocates ask for support for Oregon Avenue bike lane…Suspect in Frederick slaying arrested in Pennsylvania…Cathy Lanier does have critics, after all…Islamic Heritage Museum and Cultural Center opens in Southwest.

This Day in DCist: Last year, we learned from fringe mayoral candidate Leo Alexander that we were gay because we read the City Paper, D.C. Republicans were handing out rubber duckies at the Wilson Building and Stephen Strasburg became human.