00:00Good Day, I'm Sharmza Spina and this is PTV News Now.
00:12The Department of Migrant Workers confirmed that three Filipinos died in an early morning
00:16fire in Kuwait.
00:18DMW Secretary Hans Kakdak said the two others are in serious condition.
00:23Secretary Kakdak continues to coordinate with the Kuwaiti government to assure the safety
00:27and assistance of Filipinos living there.
00:30At least 49 people died in the fire.
00:33Officials say code violations are the likely cause.
00:36The fire broke out in Kuwait's Mangaf district, which is heavily populated with foreign workers.
00:42And in this year's U.S. presidential campaign, guns continue to divide Americans.
00:50President Joe Biden wants a ban on assault weapons, while his opponent Donald Trump says
00:55Biden is threatening the constitutional rights of gun owners.
00:59The president's son was convicted on gun charges earlier this week in a Delaware court.
01:04B-Way correspondent Scott Sterns reports.
01:08President Joe Biden told gun control activists in Washington Tuesday that he needs their
01:12help to strengthen gun laws.
01:15We need you to overcome the unrelenting opposition of the gun lobby, gun manufacturers, so many
01:19politicians when they oppose common sense gun legislation.
01:23Biden called for a federal ban on assault weapons and criticized Republican opponents
01:28for trying to close the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which is
01:34responsible for fighting gun crime.
01:36You can't be pro-law enforcement and say you are pro-law enforcement and be pro-abolishing
01:41the AFT.
01:42You can't do it.
01:45It's outrageous.
01:46Nearly a third of Americans say they have a gun, according to the Pew Research Center.
01:51Donald Trump told America's largest gun lobby in May that Biden wants to take away those
01:57guns.
01:58If the Biden regime gets four more years, they are coming for your guns, 100 percent
02:03certain.
02:04Trump says gun rights in the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment would be guaranteed by his
02:09election, but threatened by Biden's election.
02:12If they get in, our country is going to be destroyed in so many ways, but the Second
02:16Amendment will be, it's under siege.
02:18But with me, they never get anywhere.
02:20Trump told the National Rifle Association that gun owners will make him a winner in
02:25November.
02:26These are great patriots.
02:27These are great people, and we're going to do things like nobody can believe we're going
02:31to win this election at levels that nobody's ever seen before.
02:35Trump's record on gun control as president is reason not to reelect him, Biden says.
02:40My predecessors told the NRA convention recently, he's proud that, quote, I did nothing on guns
02:46when I was president.
02:48And by doing nothing, he made the situation considerably worse.
02:51Biden spoke about guns Tuesday on the same day his son, Hunter, was convicted on charges
02:57including illegally purchasing a gun.
03:00Joe Biden did not speak about his son's convictions, but did issue a written statement saying he'll
03:05accept the outcome of this case and continue to respect the judicial process.
03:11Hunter Biden is the first child of a sitting U.S. president to be convicted of a crime
03:16and is scheduled to stand trial on separate federal tax fraud charges in September.
03:21Scott Stearns, VOA News.
03:28With a rainy season officially on, the Department of Health warrants of a possible surge in
03:33dengue cases.
03:34DOH spokesperson, Assistant Secretary Albert Domingo said dengue cases dropped from over
03:395,000 cases in late April to under 4,000 cases in May, but they are still not satisfied as
03:46dengue cases are poised to spike with more rains expected and more mosquitoes breeding
03:50and laying their eggs in puddles and pockets of stagnant water.
03:54That is why the DOH advised the public to do preventive measures and clean domestic
03:58water storage containers to prevent mosquitoes from accessing egg-laying habitat.
04:03This has been Sharmza Spina.
04:07Stay informed and get ahead and get the news right here on PTV.
