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Good morning, Washington. There’s quite a bit of gray in the forecast for the next few days — meteorological and otherwise. Clouds will increase over the District with a chance of showers in the suburbs this afternoon, and this morning Mike Allen reports that the bipartisan deficit supercommittee will declare failure Monday. Allen admits that Politico was “punk’d,” having initially been optimistic that the committee could eschew outside pressure and achieve what it was set out to do: recommend at least $1.5 trillion in additional deficit reduction steps to be carried out over a ten‐year period. But it appears the committee was only ever smoke and mirrors. Allen reports that on Monday, co-chairs, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) will issue a statement with the message: “This marriage is over.”

>> The Washington Post explores the repercussions of Corpus Christi Catholic Church’s decision to no longer train girls to be altar servers. About a dozen families left the church, and about 50 families from around the country wrote protest letters to the Arlington Catholic Diocese. A vigil is scheduled for today outside the diocese’s offices.

>> Kalle Lasn and Micah White, editor in chief and senior editor, respectively, of Adbusters magazine, penned an op-ed in the Washington Post that makes some bold statements about Occupy Wall Street’s place in history: “For two heady months, the amorphous encampment in Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park had been the symbolic heart of Occupy Wall Street, the birthplace of the greatest social-justice movement to emerge in the United States since the civil rights era.”

>> WAMU reports that a project funded by the National Science Foundation will work to extend a network of sensors across the entire East Coast, including Virginia, to better understand the Earth’s geologic processes. “You have the San Andreas Fault in California, and a major subduction zone off of Oregon and Washington,” Bob Woodward, who runs the project, told WAMU. “It’s very clear the forces at play there.”

>> The Washington Examiner reports on new data which shows that Montgomery County firefighters aim to arrive on the scene of a fire in six minutes or less — but only do so about half of the time. Farifax County also failed to meet its goal time less than half the time. D.C. firefighters arrived on the scene of a structural fire within six minutes 98.9 percent of the time in fiscal 2010.

>> Prince George’s County sounds torn on whether or not to bring Whole Foods to Riverdale Park. Town officials are concerned about the crushing traffic the development will likely attract.

>> “More than 250 cameras in the District and its suburbs scan license plates in real time, helping police pinpoint stolen cars and fleeing killers. But the program quietly has expanded beyond what anyone had imagined even a few years ago.”

>> The Arlington County Board approved a taxicab fare increase by 10 cents per mile. The board also added a requirement that all Arlington-based taxi cabs accept credit cards as of December 1, 2012. Fare changes will take effect on January 1, 2012.

>> The Washington Capitals lost their fourth consecutive game Saturday when the Toronto Maple Leafs secured a 7-1 win.

>> Some of them really are pretty bad.

>> On this date in 1985, Microsoft released Windows 1.0. Before the company decided to call it Windows, they considered the name…