Good morning, Washington. One of the Post’s top local news stories this morning is about how the District’s newly renovated National Aquarium uses elaborately filtered D.C. tap water to fill its tanks. Apparently the aquarium held a pretty funny press event recently where the director of biological programs told reporters that “D.C. water is abominable,” prompting his boss to reassure everyone that it’s only dangerous to fish, not to people. Looks like we should schedule a visit to the often neglected aquarium, if not to check out what they’ve done with the place, then at least to get some more refreshingly honest quotes from its employees.

License Plate Scanners to Target Terrorists: One of the weekend’s biggest pieces of news is that a chunk of the D.C. metro area’s federal homeland security grant will go toward using license plate scanning technology to help fight terrorism. No word yet on when D.C., Virginia or Maryland will begin issuing special “I’m a Terrorist!” vanity plates to make the whole process that much more effective.

Police Looking for Escaped Teen Prisoner: Seems like authorities have nobody to blame but themselves for not having 17-year-old Gerald Long in their custody. The teenager appears to have escaped twice in just about a week, one time at BWI, while he was being transferred from the D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services to a secure treatment facility. The teenager was also arrested in Seat Pleasant last Saturday, but “either escaped or was released,” because Seat Pleasant police did not know that Long was wanted by the MPD.

Briefly Noted: Two police officers injured in car accident in Northeast … Customer injured when car drives into Rockville 7-Eleven … Woman, child stabbed in Fairfax … Off-duty PG County officer fatally shoots man in Langley Park … Four people shot near a nightclub in Temple Hills.

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