Big plans for the port. While there may be some jobs lost in the Northwest, the mayor of Baltimore just returned from visiting the Panama Canal with Vice President Joe Biden and explained how the improvements being made there will have huge impacts on Baltimore.
Linh Bui sat down with the mayor one-on-one.
The mayor just returned from her two-day trip to Panama. She says the new canal is incredible and could mean big business and more jobs for Baltimore.
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake joined the vice president and others to see the Panama Canal expansion.
Its completion in 2015 could be a big boost for the United States.
“We have the possibility of expanding our economy by hundreds of billions of dollars over the near term,” Biden said. More on the story