Interstate 495

Here's Chuck Whitaker with traffic and weather on the threes.

If you're coming in early on I-70 between Howard County and the Beltway, there's a medic call off to the right side.

We had a lot of units there for a while, mostly on the shoulder, but crowding the right lane.

I would just stay to the center and the left as you come in from the Patapsco River Bridge into the Beltway.

You'll see it way in advance, and it's not a problem right now, but they are staying in the center and the left-hand lane.

Beltway looks good.

Good start.

We're clear and nice and quiet, at least right now, heading south into both the harbor tunnels.

I don't know that the guy was drunk, but something was probably going on.

But my wife just hit me to a story that happened this week where there was a guy, I guess it was some sort of chase on the Beltway.

And, you know, I live near Connecticut Avenue.

I can hear the Beltway cars from my house.

And you have to listen, but you can hear it.

I guess you get kind of just like white noise.

or it must, well, unless you first corrupt it, and then you can refer to corollary A, okay? And I say that because a lot of people in this business, particularly the influence business, think that, particularly the Washington, D.C.

Beltway, they tend to emphasize this idea that we can just offer monetary incentives and that's going to change people's behavior.

And that only works, again, if they're already corrupt.

A lot of actors are, so that doesn't mean it never works.

The Kennedy Center matters.

And I know I'm a Washingtonian, and I sound like a Beltway guy talking about Washingtonian things.

This is a living memorial to a slain president.

And Donald Trump is now going to shut it down, ladies and gentlemen.