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Do this morning trips on your Uber and Lyft in and out of downtown D.C. could soon be a little more expensive. A D.C. council committee has voted this week to move forward with a plan to add two bucks as a surcharge to ride share trips. That fee would be added to downtown and the neighborhoods nearby it from 7 8 to noon, and then to trips out of those same areas from noon to 7 P 7 days a week. Ward one council member on this brianda two tells 7 news of this week, the plan. She thinks would help revitalize downtown D.C.. Prioritizing vehicles over access to transportation means we've got pollution. We've got noise. We've got congestion and that's not inviting and that's not what we want for the future of downtown. She's as most of the revenue from the surcharge would fund 24 hour bus service on at least 12 of D.C.'s busiest bus lines, but we also heard this week from D.C. mayor muriel Bowser on this, calling the plan, a terrible idea, and she says it would actually hurt efforts to re energize downtown D.C.. Council chairman Phil mendelson now will have to now decide whether or not to include it in his future budget, stay tuned. While condemning a rise in hate incidents in Montgomery county, public schools this week, superintendent monifa mcknight reflected this week on her history in the county's growth. We have inherited a system that was designed for white students who lived in white neighborhoods and were taught by white teachers only later to be open for all other students. That superintendent monifa mcknight, who says hate and bias incidents have tripled the school year when compared to previous years. In an hour long speech, he reflected on her childhood in orangeburg, South Carolina, where she says there was a black side of town in a white side of town. Just as we have inherited those systems, we will now pass down the system and culture and values that our children and grandchildren will inherit. Mcknight outlined a series of actions such as trainings for staff and assemblies for students that the county will take in response to the rise in hate incidents. Scott gelman, WTO P news. The Supreme Court in the hot seats, we're in depth coming right up on WTO after your money news. Time now is four O 8. It's Saturday morning to Carlos Ramirez with this in the WTO traffic center. Thanks so much, dean. If you're headed on the outer loop of the beltway looking for a new accident, see now as you make your approach, to the. Or rather, just pass the BW Parkway on your approach towards kenilworth avenue. It looks like the crash is on the outer loop headed towards two O one. Don't have it in camera, but what I am noticing in your camera is that it's quite slick out there. Remember, even if it's not necessarily raining exactly where you are, since it's been raining for so long, generally all the roads are wet. What does that mean? It means your brakes are wet, it means your tires are wet, means it's gonna take you a lot longer to slow down this morning than it normally would. Keep that in mind. Again, out of the beltway, dealing with a crash soon after the BW Parkway on your approach towards two O one. Powder milled road looks very slow here in either direction headed across the paint branch bridge there. Looks like powder mill road is dealing with those delays. It is more than likely some high standing water, some puddles through that area, remember turn around or go around, don't drown. Otherwise, if you happen to see an accident scene through there, let us know, no cameras in that specific spot. If you're headed through Damascus, that's 27 ridge road. In either direction, all lanes are shut down, follow police direction in that area. And it's going to be right by woodfield road to 70 looks good, and down in Virginia, GW parkways open, looking for a safe use car if it's Gerald on wall, has hundreds of good cars, trucks, and SUVs. Next to a new car if it's way used cars best, as if it's small dot com today. Carlos Ramirez WLP traffic. First thing here, Saturday morning, damp conditions, some patchy fog across the area, and on the cool side, it really does feel like a morning and an early spring. Temperatures in the 50s will rise to a high of 70° with mostly cloudy sky. So