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Good morning, Washington. While any snow this week certainly wouldn’t be the season’s first — we got that late-October dusting — we may well be facing our first mid-week inclement weather this Thursday, writes the Post’s Capital Weather Gang. According to weather models, we could see rain turn to sleet and then turn to snow, right in time for the Thursday morning commute. Of course, the gang admits that the forecast is still “cloaked in uncertainty,” so don’t hold your breath for much to come just yet. (As of this morning, The Weather Channel had Thursday looking partly cloudy and with a high of 44.)

No Suit for You, Says Court: If you slipped on one of Metro’s tile floors or took a tumble down a busted escalator, your legal options might be slim. The Examiner reports that a Maryland court reversed a $64,000 judgement awarded to a woman who slipped and fell on the platform at the Cheverly station, arguing that Metro enjoys sovereign immunity from such claims. The extent of that immunity will certainly be tested in the ongoing lawsuit against the transit agency for the 2009 Red Line crash that killed nine people.

Gingrich Comment Offends Some D.C. Teens: When Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich said over the weekend that urban teens don’t have much of a work ethic, he was sure to offend some. The Post gathered a few reactions from teens in Congress Heights, some of which argued that Gingrich simply didn’t know what he was talking about. Moreover, it’s not as simple as Gingrich would seem to imply — while there are fewer young people working, research has found that more are in school. Additionally, the article cites the District’s Summer Youth Employment Program, which has never had trouble attracting teens to work. (Of course, the quality of the work and the program as a whole is certainly debatable.)

Two-Mile Stretch of I-66 Gains Extra Lane, Rest is Still a Traffic Nightmare: There’s long been disagreement over whether additional road capacity will ease traffic or just encourage more people to drive. A two-mile stretch of I-66 that just gained an additional westbound lane could be a good way to test that argument. WJLA writes that the stretch between Fairfax Drive and Sycamore Street opened last night, the first of three segments that will be expanded to accommodate the large amounts of cars that use the highway every day.

Briefly Noted: Woman charged with stabbing at Occupy Baltimore … Is Councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr. (D-Ward 5) the new Marion Barry? … Crucified Santa appears in front of Leesburg courthouse … D.C. wins special education appeal … Capitol Christmas tree lighting to take place tonight.

This Day in DCist: On this day in 2010, protesters were detained for screening A Fire in My Belly in the National Portrait Gallery, Michelle Rhee launched Student First and the Caps went skating at the National Sculpture Garden’s ice-skating rink. In 2009, there was a jump in sexual orientation hate crimes in wards 7 and 8.