Davao de Oro landslide kills 5, injures 31
Davao de Oro landslide kills 5, injures 31
Baby southern white rhino is a crowd favorite in a Northern France Zoo
POTUS's bidenomics doesn't square with most Americans, poll numbers continue to tank
Baby southern white rhino is a crowd favorite in a Northern France Zoo
POTUS's bidenomics doesn't square with most Americans, poll numbers continue to tank
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00:00 P.O. here and this is PTV News Now.
00:10 At the top of today's major events, we go local and down south to a mining village in
00:15 the newly created province of Davao de Oro, where a landslide struck Tuesday, killing
00:20 at least five people whose lifeless bodies were pulled from the mud while engulfing two
00:25 mining shuttle buses with 28 passengers aboard along with a number of houses in the mining
00:31 village.
00:32 Eight people aboard the buses managed to escape before the mud buried the two mining shuttle
00:37 buses.
00:38 Meanwhile, 31 villagers were reported to have sustained varying degrees of injuries, two
00:43 include two seriously hurt individuals who were airlifted to a Davao City hospital for
00:49 immediate treatment.
00:51 At least 285 families from Masara and four nearby villagers left their homes on forced
00:58 evacuation, even as roads remain impervious to vehicular traffic and cell phone communications
01:04 and/or services are non-existent.
01:07 Pounding rain has battered much of the southeastern Mindanao over the past few weeks and left
01:12 villagers underwater and thousands holed up in emergency shelters thus far.
01:19 She's Blanco, not Albino.
01:21 She moves clumsily and clueless, and her face dirty all over, and yet everyone who meets
01:27 and sees her can't help but fall in love.
01:30 She's Lucy, a relatively new resident of the Serzat Zoo in northern France, where she
01:37 was born in November and has since captured the hearts of her keepers and zoo visitors.
01:43 Lucy is a southern white rhinoceros, a subspecies of the white rhino which is considered endangered
01:50 and constantly under threat.
01:52 There are roughly 16,000 southern white rhino subspecies in existence.
01:57 Next to the elephant, the white rhinos are the largest terrestrial mammals around.
02:05 POTUS Joseph Biden's poll numbers are still on the slide despite the rate drops numbers
02:10 report of late and the stock market on a surge since the last two weeks.
02:15 Still, these latest positive developments have not translated into public satisfaction,
02:21 but instead numbers that aren't only low but also continues to tank.
02:26 PTV correspondent Jorge Bandola tries to make sense of the numbers in this report.
02:33 To hear the Biden administration tell it, the US economy is on an upswing.
02:38 Over the past three years, President Biden and I have lowered costs, created opportunity,
02:45 and are building an economy that works for working people.
02:50 We have created more than 14.5 million new jobs, increased wages for tens of millions
02:57 of Americans.
02:59 Today consumer confidence is up and consumer spending is an all-time high.
03:06 And although we have more work to do, let us be clear, America's economy continues to
03:11 be the strongest in the world.
03:14 The head of the US central bank, which fiercely maintains its independence from political
03:18 pressure, agrees.
03:20 We feel like inflation is coming down.
03:23 Growth has been strong.
03:24 The labor market is strong.
03:28 What we're trying to do is identify a place where we're really confident about inflation
03:32 getting back to 2% so that we can then begin the process of dialing back the restrictive
03:39 level.
03:40 But a new poll from research firm Ipsos shows that a rising number of American voters don't
03:44 buy it.
03:45 And that's hurting Biden's re-election chances.
03:48 Biden is entering into 2024 in a wicked position.
03:54 We have him at this point at 38% approval rating.
03:59 And that's important because based on our experience, our historical experience, a sitting
04:05 president at 40% approval rating or better has better than a 50/50 chance of winning
04:11 the next election.
04:13 Voters' top issue, Young says, is the economy and not the bigger trends, but the nickels
04:18 and dimes.
04:19 Peel that onion away and they're really worried about inflation.
04:22 South Carolina's Democratic voters overwhelmingly supported Biden in a recent primary.
04:27 And even supporters say they feel the pinch.
04:29 Groceries are high, higher than we've seen in a while.
04:33 Gas is also.
04:34 But what I'm encouraged by is mortgage interest rates are beginning to go down.
04:40 That Young says is a new spin off the Clinton-era political saying that American voters share
04:45 one priority.
04:46 It's the economy, stupid.
04:48 It's actually, it's the inflation, stupid.
04:51 And by the way, we really don't know how inflation behaves relative to politics, relative to
04:57 public opinion.
04:58 We haven't had a lot of experience in the United States in the last few generations
05:02 with high rates of inflation.
05:04 Donald Trump has touted his economic acumen to voters on the campaign trail.
05:08 The former president, however, is facing four criminal cases and a civil judgment over alleged
05:13 business fraud in which he's accused of wildly inflating his net worth.
05:18 Is that likely to sway voters whose minds appear to be already made up?
05:22 The world will find out in November.
05:24 Anita Powell, DOE News, the White House.
05:32 And we have come to the end of the show.
05:33 We hope you join us anew tomorrow, same time in the afternoon and same place on your remote
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