Kristine-hit schools to get first dibs on DepEd reconstruction, rehab

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00:00A wonderful Tuesday afternoon to all of you.

00:09Yours truly, Denise Osorio here for PTV News Now.

00:12Kicking off our stories for this afternoon, we take a look at the country's public schools

00:17whose infrastructure, learning materials, and instruments sustained damage from Tropical

00:22Storm Christine's passage are to receive first dibs in DAPED's rehab, repair, or reconstruction

00:28list.

00:29In a statement released earlier today, Department of Education Chief Sonny Angara said the ASAP

00:35order is to allow quick resumption or restoration of normalcy to these schools, given the extended

00:41disruptions in learning endured by the students and the teachers who play catch-up on their

00:46lesson plans.

00:47In particular, the DAPED seeks to replace irreparably damaged textbooks, learning materials,

00:52tools and computer systems, and then set up temporary learning spaces or facilities and

00:57utilize additional maintenance and operating expenses if need be.

01:02Damage in schools hit by Tropical Storm Christine is pegged at approximately P3.7 billion, of

01:08which P2.9 billion is for reconstruction and P737.5 million for major repairs and rehab.

01:19It began last week in Phoenix, Arizona, and then a spate of copycat acts followed, the

01:25more recent of which was in the Pacific Northwest in Vancouver, Washington State.

01:31Mailboxes and or ballot collection boxes for early mail-in voting set aflame by agents

01:36of chaos and anarchy who wish to totally disrupt the November 5 presidential polls for good.

01:43Another mailbox in Portland, Oregon, was also set ablaze by way of an incendiary device

01:51a half an hour apart from the Vancouver, Washington incident.

01:55But a fire suppressant system inside the collection box spared all but three filled

01:59out ballots inside.

02:01The series of attacks on mailboxes comes as Homeland Security officials warn of election-related

02:06violence from domestic violent extremists or DVEs, potential targets, the DHS and the

02:13FBI say, could include campaign events, vote counting sites, ballot drop box locations,

02:20voter registration sites, political party offices or headquarters, and polling places.

02:28Forty million of the baby boomers who voted in the 2016 polls between Hillary Clinton

02:33and Donald Trump are dead.

02:35Eight years later, at least 20 to 25 million millennial or Gen Z voters by conservative

02:41estimates are participating in their first democratic exercise next week, and they are

02:46helping out, get out the vote, as VOA's Laurel Bowman tells us in this report.

02:51Thank you, our first mock voter, yay!

02:57Student leaders at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, recently set up a mock polling booth

03:03with sample ballots and invited election officials to conduct voter education.

03:08It's an effort to get students ready to vote in the November U.S. presidential election.

03:14Today's event was all about voter education and letting people see the polls, see what

03:20they were going to experience at the polls.

03:23Participants like Akyan Demang seem appreciative.

03:26I just want to see how it feels like voting for the first time, because this is my first

03:31time voting for the actual presidential election, and I want to see what is the procedure.

03:36These young voters care about a range of issues.

03:40Financial issues with the debt of the country.

03:43I don't really understand much of it, but if I look at it, it looks like a big number.

03:47I don't understand why it's that high.

03:49So I would say climate change is important, reproductive rights.

03:54I think for many people, America's role in the world is a very important issue, particularly

04:00for young voters.

04:01In the U.S. presidential race between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris, most

04:07of the students we interviewed would not reveal who they'll be voting for.

04:11But the U.S. state of Maryland, a stronghold for Democrats, is expected to go for Harris.

04:17So we asked the head of the Georgia Young Republicans, Jacqueline Harn, what issues

04:21matter to her Republican peers.

04:24For many, she said, it's about the economy.

04:28Between housing, between inflation with grocery prices and gas prices ever increasing, it's

04:34unaffordable to live and have a family right now.

04:36And how should campaigns go about reaching young voters?

04:39You're not going to reach a Gen Z voter by doing a phone bank and phone calling them

04:43because they probably have a spam blocker on their phone or they're just not going to

04:47answer a number they don't know.

04:49Because we are, we're the social media generation.

04:51Everything that we looked at was on social media.

04:53We did our news from social media.

04:55Democratic social media influencer Harry Sisson agrees.

04:58And I'd say primarily, maybe the main news app for young people is probably TikTok.

05:05Probably TikTok.

05:06And, you know, whatever reason that may be, I think it's mostly because it's digestible.

05:11A lot of these news segments that you see on TikTok are 30 to 60 seconds.

05:16Meantime, in Herndon, Virginia, Kamala Harris supporter Camila Alfonso Mesa goes house to

05:22house trying to encourage people to vote for her candidate.

05:27They don't always open the door, but she keeps at it.

05:29Hi. Definitely our supporters.

05:32She says that Harris replacing President Joe Biden in the presidential race was invigorating

05:38for young Democrats.

05:40I have seen a big shift in energy and enthusiasm since the vice president became the

05:47nominee. Alfonso Mesa thanks the Gen Z voting bloc of over 40 million young people could

05:54make a real difference in the presidential election.

05:58Laurel Bowman, VOA News.

06:02And we've come to the show's end for this afternoon.

06:08Join us on you later tonight for the back end of this twin bill news break report.

06:12So you all stay connected by keeping it here for news you can count on.

06:16I'm Denise Osorio and thank you for watching PTV News Now.

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