traveling downtown this rning, you want to be aware this weekend's artscape shut down many roads cathedral street shut down at point royal point royal avenue -- mount royal avenue and this is just a few of the many intersections that are shut down for a complete list of the road that are going to be closed through next tuesday you can go to abc2news.com. right now 95 moving along in eastern avenue. you won't have any problems traveling from the harbor tunnel throughway to the fort mchenry tunnel toll plaza. 7 minutes and here's a look at the beltway. east side looks good at 11 minutes on outer loop from 95 all the way to-- way up to 83. west side 12 minutes from the outer loop from 795 down to 95. that's your timesaver traffic. stay with us. there is much more coming up. you are watching good morning maryland. >>> [audio not understandable] >> they collected thousands of. [audio not understandable] rachel and tj felt lpless watching the news reports after the tore nidos in may. they took worries into action and asked people to donate items from the youngest storm victims there. the family

. >> you might have spotted a bart train rning. there were no passengers on board though. just maintenance workers. bart plans a few empty runs a day to keep the tracks from resting and to make sure the trains are ready to go when the strike ends. >> well, ac transit workers are helping shoulder the commuter burden while in con tract -- contract talks of their own. negotiations are progressing and they will meet again with the union tomorrow. the union has promised to give riders 24 hours notice if they decide to strike. >> now, we have a list of alternatives forgetting across the bay on our website. just go to abc7news.com and click on commuter resources. and our morning team will be here half an hour early again tomorrow from 4:00ov on for a moment. a mudslide buried interstate 80 near the nevada border and closing traffic in both directions. the westbound lane is still closed tonight. here is new video of the slide being cleaned up. the mud and the rocks poured on to the freeway about 5:00 this evening. the muck was eight inches deep in some spots. it was a real mess. t

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it's a 6.7% forward rning yield. you got a 260 treasury and a 5 1/4 baa investment grade.ear 7% earns beats the bonds story by a lot. >> i think that's exactly the right calculation and you're right to focus on the corporate credit rather than treasury because the treasury is artificial live low. that spread is still very wide. it's positive compared to what it was in the 8 0z and 90s and lot of last decade. on a relatively basis, stocks look cheap because bonds, expensive. >> but which stocks are cheap? if you take a look at technology, many of those stocks are trade being at discount to the s&p 500. and also yield compound and annual growth rate of 5% to 10% over the next five years. >> think is a really important point. the thing about the first part of the year, people bought stocks that looked like bonds, utilities, they wanted low volatility and yield nap part of the market did get expensive. if you're looking at the back half of the year, cyclicals look cheapers, large cap as opposed to small caps. there are some head winds but long term there's value there. >> ford

discussion,rning's if one thing we can't take away is that historically, immigrants have always been able to become citizens. in, work and if you naturalize you can. the one exception was asians and then people here without status. youlegalize people now but deprive them of the last step, the right to make the last step to full citizenship. we will create a different kind of country where you will have a permanent second-class corporate people. i think that is a very dangerous road for us to go down. >> that is something of like to throw out there to which every one of the ones to answer. -- we haveuestion of this immigration reform bill and the senate that passed this june. that would create a pathway to citizenship or to a green card the would end up taking citizenship 13 years and they're talking about in the house a bill that would take 15 years. is there a point where these kind of extensions and delays for citizenship become a second- class citizenship in itself? if someone said 30 years, would that suddenly be a problem? how we draw the line? have we already overstepped it wit

. -- i rning foreigners can don't think foreigners can get at that. people who can remember the orean war have deeply -- there is a book out on korea and gets into that very deeply. hat's a tough issue you raise. i'm a journalist and i report for southeast asian publications. you ambassador, you spoke about out of box diplomacy. have you tried getting the asian into this dialogue with north korea because north korea has been sending feelers to some of the asian member states for greater economic interaction? >> it may make sense to do that because you're right north korea atends some of those meetings. i think it is getting stronger particularly with the emergence of burma as a major actor there. i think that's good. we need some new players. i think the six party countries they've run out of gas. now that doesn't mean that one by one you don't take it serious. south korea could be a major player. united states could be a major player. player.n be a major russia is not participating. i really think there is something for this russia china relationship

what the government is doing is having them fill out an application which is like rning over your entiree're asking for a very unrelated questions. not only that, when these families are finally given the visa after a very long application process, they give the father and one child a visa and the wife and two of the children are refused the visa. host: if you want to take this quickly in the less than a minute we have left. guest: that is an interesting question. if you went back three or four years ago, the length of time it took to get a visa from china, india, brazil, was weeks and months long. we have been working with the state department to encourage them to increase personnel, et cetera. the wait times and some of these high-volume countries have fallen dramatically and due to increased staffing in these particular areas. more needs to be done. i think we need to have more offices to encourage more people to come here. it is a stimulus plan that does not cost any money. we're getting international people here and they're jobs. ing american host: breach you both coming on today. >