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A pair of badly performing transformers cut power to Inova Mount Vernon Hospital Monday for most of the day, although officials used generators to handle acute and emergency care.

Tony Raker, spokesman for Inova Helath Systems, said the power company was fixing a bad transformer Monday morning when the replacement proved faulty as well. The hospital lost power at 8:30 a.m. and it wasn’t restored until 6:45 p.m.

Elective surgeries were postponed, he said, but no acute or emergency patients were affected.

Brayan Juarez, Ricardo Juarez and Marco Limus protest Carlos Slim’s reception of an honorary degree from George Washington University on Sunday morning. (Hamil R. Harris - The Washington Post)

The George Washington University’s graduation on the Mall was peaceful Sunday morning, with a modest protest against a billionaire honorary degree recipient barely impacting the ceremony.

Not a cloud was in the sky nor a protester could be heard as approximately 7,000 students received their degrees. As 25,000 people gathered for the event, hundreds of people protesting Mexican telecommunications giant Carlos Slim stood nearby on the grounds of the Washington Monument but did little to disrupt his speech.

As Slim stood to receive an honorary doctorate of Public Service, a chorus of horns erupted. Slim didn’t miss a beat, delivering his speech in soft tones.

“When you give, do not expect to receive,” Slim said. “God forgives our sins, but not our services.”

Maryland health officials issued a warning to consumers Thursday, advising them not to eat any fresh or frozen molluscan shellfish that come from South Korea because they are considered potentially unsafe for consumption.

(Bill O'Leary - The Washington Post) Crabs and shrimp are not considered molluscan shellfish.

Shellfish grown and produced in Maryland are not affected.

The affected Korean shellfish includes fresh or frozen oysters, clams, mussels, and whole and roe-on scallops, either shucked or in the shell, whole or in part. This includes frozen breaded shellfish products from South Korea.

Health officials said there are no recent cases of illness in Maryland known to be related to Korean shellfish.

This story has been updated.

A man was shot and critically wounded by a D.C. police officer in Southeast Washington late Monday night, authorities said.

Police Chief Cathy Lanier said the man was apparently shot during an exchange of gunfire with an officer looking for a suspect in a shooting in the same neighborhood earlier Monday night.

Officials said the confrontation with police occurred about 10:45 p.m. in the 4200 block of 6th Street SE. An initial report from police indicated that the man was unconscious and not breathing.

A woman who lives in the area said the shooting apparently occurred in an apartment house courtyard, inside an entry gate.

She said she heard as many as five or six shots, and later saw someone lying on the ground outside the Cascade Park apartments, a three-story brick building.

The neighborhood resident said that shortly after the shooting, a woman approached the scene, crying ”that’s my husband.”

The man was taken away in an ambulance.

The woman said she believed she recognized the man who was shot as someone who lived within a few blocks.

“I see him every day,” the woman said.

Before the shooting, she said, she heard nothing.

Then, she said, “all of a sudden” gunshots were fired.

The matter was under investigation late last night, and officials were at the scene.

About half an hour before the 6th Street shooting, a man was shot in the leg a few blocks away, in the 4300 block of 3rd Street SE. Lanier said police received a detailed description of a suspect in that shooting. Shortly afterward, she said, a man with a gun was reported on Sixth Street SE.

An officer confronted a man on Sixth Street who appeared to match the description of the suspect. “It looks like” there was an exchange of gunfire, Lanier said. The man was hit, and an officer was grazed by a bullet, she said. Police found shell casings from a gun that is not a police weapon, and a gun was recovered at the scene, Lanier added.

Washington music legend Chuck Brown remains in a hospital, but ”is okay,” two people close to him said Saturday. The 75-year-old’s health has been the subject of rumor and speculation.

“He is still in the hospital,” his manager Tom Goldfogle said at a Harlem Renaissance festival in Prince George’s County. .

Brown’s daughter KK told the festival crowd “He’s okay. Just keep praying for him. He’s a fighter.”

Details of his condition were not provided.