text:  uh... and last night i read my bike and they have blocked off the ring road the beltway cars cannot even come into the city now they're closing the airspace in like a ninety mile perimeter in a couple hours i mean i have never seen such security that the city is basically empty except for police and soldiers and there are some fifty thousand police and soldiers on the streets today and this started well in advance of tonight's games so people are sort of thinking