The glory of the Internet is that I can put up news that even the wire agencies haven't gotten ahold of yet.
About an hour ago (1:30 pm Eastern) I got a phone call from a friend who works at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. A motorcade of around 25 vehicles, all black SUVs surrounded by Baltimore police cars, had blocked off the entrance to most of the hospital. A SWAT team, with "SECRET SERVICE" on their vests, was moving around on foot. And an all-black ambulance, with Secret Service markings, had pulled into the Hopkins emergency department.
The only Secret Service ambulances (that I know of) are stationed at the Naval Observatory (the Vice Presidential residence) and the White House. However, this makes very little sense. Even though Hopkins is the best all-around hospital in the mid-Atlantic, any emergency procedures could be done at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, or the George Washington University Hospital, three blocks from the White House. Why come to Hopkins?
My semi-educated guess is that it's a routine procedure, like a minor surgery or a cardiac monitoring session, for either the President or the Vice President. They would bring the motorcade for a routine procedure, but would keep it a secret until it was complete and the President/VP was home safe. And since, after an hour of searching, I can't find any information on where either the President or VP are today, I'm going to presume that one of them is at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
I know that most people don't check this blog for late-breaking news, or even late-breaking speculation, but hey. I just got the information, so here you go.
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