Good morning, Washington. This house is the entry by the University of Maryland in the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon, the student competition we told you about last week. The houses are viewable on the National Mall until October 16th. Today will be cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain and highs in the 60s.

How’d You Like $100,000? The latest chapter in the story of the city’s hot real estate market is a bidding war over the 6 acres of the tenant-owned Sursum Corda housing complex several blocks north of Union Station. After accepting a deal for $25 million, another group has given the owners another deal which would offer them either $100,000 cash or a new home worth as much as $235,000 in exchange for the property, the Post reports. The Post points out it is located “amid one of the most rapidly developing areas in the nation’s capital” and walking distance from the New York Avenue Metro Station.

Recent Rain Means Bright Leaves: Experts in Virginia think that last weekend’s record rainfall in the area may have helped save us from a dreary fall, the AP reports. Although the Virginia State Climatology Office is predicting a “boost in color” it’s not without reservations – a spokesman for the office admitted he had “rarely seen a fall-color prognostication that came out generally correct.”

Fisherman Find ‘Hundreds’ Of Snakeheads: The ongoing search for the Snakehead has come to an apparent end. Depending on whom you ask the Asian fish is either part of the natural migration of species around the world, or a vicious predator who can walk over dry land upright and will one day march on Washington. Whatever you think of the fish, they’re apparently here to stay, as NBC 4 reported yesterday that a group of fisherman discovered a tributary of the Potomoc packed with hundreds of Snakeheads, surprising the veteran anglers.

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