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Good morning, Washington. For once, it isn’t us. Most of the East Coast, from Philly to Boston, has been blanketed with a foot of snow, and they’re in for a second foot right on top of that courtesy another powerful storm that will hit later today. Us? The sun is actually shining this morning. And basically no accumulation occurred inside the city last night. Like we mentioned, it’s going to be windy today, but otherwise the worst we’re facing is maybe a dusting later tonight. We’ll certainly be curious to see just how hardcore all those New Yorkers end up being once they’re facing their very own one-two punch of major snow, when you don’t even have enough time to dig out from the first one before the second one hits. Have fun with that, dudes!

NTSB Hearing Heads into Day 3: The ongoing NTSB hearing on the deadly June 22 Red Line crash starts its third and final day at 9 a.m. this morning. The Examiner’s got a look at what went down yesterday, which saw testimony from equipment manufacturer Alstom Signaling that it had warned WMATA not to mix its products with that of other manufacturers. Metro witnesses then admitted that distribution of that information to its workers was “uneven.”

WaPo Ed Board Calls for Marion Barry to Step Down: Ward 8 Council member Marion Barry may be sorry, but the folks at the Washington Post editorial board aren’t impressed. They’re calling on him to step down in the wake of the Bennett report’s findings, something we’d be shocked to see Barry actually do. Still, the Post isn’t mincing words here: “It frankly is disgusting to hear Mr. Barry talk, as he did Tuesday, about the needs of his resource-poor community when his main agenda has been his own welfare. He seems not to recognize the connection between the deprivations of Ward 8 and his lack of effective leadership. If Mr. Barry were really sorry, he would realize it is time for him to make way for someone who can deliver. Or, at the very least, to pay back the money wasted on girlfriends and cronies.”

Briefly Noted: Car abandoned in D.C. rush hour lanes near embassy took a week to tow … Corcoran’s director of finance found dead, his naked body discovered on his balcony in Adams Morgan … NBC4 weatherman Bob Ryan is indeed leaving the station, possibly moving to WJLA.

This Day in DCist: In 2009, Mayor Fenty did a pretty bad job on Larry King Live, and in 2008 we learned that WASA’s lead pipe replacement program was actually causing lead levels in our drinking water to spike.