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- Sara Duterte's gun ownership presented at impeachment court, but senators unimpressed
- Baste Duterte asks impeachment court to reset trial appearance
- Does Taguig have ghost flood control projects? The conflicting claims of Dizon and Lacson
- Fuel prices finally roll back on September 29 after weeks of hikes
- Alex Eala opens quest for Asian Games gold, Olympic berth with dominant win

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00:01The prosecution establishes Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband, Man Scarpio, own 51 guns.
00:08Davao City Mayor Baste Duterte asks the Senate impeachment court to reset the date of his testimony in his sister's
00:14trial.
00:15Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon denies Senator Ping Lacson's claims that 32 ghost flood control projects were found in Taguig
00:21City.
00:22Fuel prices are to go down after three consecutive weeks of steep increases.
00:26And, Filipina tennis star Alex Ayala starts her Asian Games bid with a big win.
00:40The prosecution establishes Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband, Man Scarpio, own 51 guns.
00:46This on the 30th day of Duterte's impeachment trial.
00:49But Senator Judges questioned the relevance of the testimony.
00:52I have been reviewing my Salen also and I do not see anything there that says guns.
00:57Many of us are firearms owners here, if not all members of the Senate.
01:01We usually put it under personal effects and personal properties, Your Honor, Mr. President.
01:05I don't think it's that much weight.
01:09Witness PNP Firearms Office Records Chief Major Joe Erickson Sanggalang confirms 22 guns are registered to the Vice President alone.
01:17Combined with her husband's 29 guns, the firearms have an approximate market value of 7 million pesos.
01:23The prosecution points out Duterte did not declare her guns in her statement of assets liabilities and net worth or
01:28Salen.
01:29Private Prosecutor Lorna Capunan explains.
01:32I could sense the hesitancy of the Senators because they are firearm owners.
01:38Kung Bell said, armory ba to?
01:41Na-impress natin ni Sen. Tulfo that it is possible pala, according to the testimony of Major Sanggalang,
01:50for a private individual to have a private army. And that is what should be addressed, no?
01:59Davao City Mayor Baste Duterte asks the Senate Impeachment Court to reset the date of his testimony in the trial
02:05of his older sister, Vice President Sara Duterte.
02:08The mayor will appear before the court on Tuesday, September 29 or Wednesday, September 30.
02:13That we are in receipt of a letter from Mayor Sebastian Duterte of the city of Davao on even date,
02:22dated today.
02:24I'm requesting that, among others, that he be given time, as he requires substantial time to gather, organize, authenticate, and
02:34reproduce the subpoena documents.
02:36And asks that he be allowed to attend instead of today, tomorrow, and on Wednesday, the presiding officer grants the
02:44request of Mayor Duterte to appear tomorrow and Wednesday.
02:50The Davao mayor was earlier subpoenaed to appear before the court from September 28 to September 30.
02:56He was also ordered to produce certified true copies of the Davao City government's contracts or transaction records with Gencorp
03:02Industries.
03:03Gencorp was linked to the vice president after she declared herself a stockholder in her 2022, 2023, and 2024 statements
03:11of assets, liabilities, and net worth, or SALENs.
03:16Senator Ping Lakson says his team identified at least 32 allegedly anomalous flood control projects in Taguig City, with at
03:22least two being ghost projects.
03:24But Senator Alan Peter Cayetano disputes the allegations.
03:27During the Department of Public Works and Highways budget hearing, Cayetano directly asked Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon whether the
03:34agency had found any ghost projects in Taguig.
03:42Dizon says there are 10 confirmed ghost projects so far. Cayetano then asks about projects in Taguig, to which Dizon
03:49replies,
03:53Lakson disputes Dizon's statement. In a social media post, the senator says Dizon directly contradicted DPWH's own site inspection reports
04:01in Taguig, specifically submitted by personnel from the Department's Bureau of Quality and Safety and Bureau of Maintenance.
04:07The senator cites DPWH records involving a project supposedly located in Taguig, with geotagged site photos reportedly showing coordinates in
04:15Leyte, around 600 kilometers away.
04:18Dizon later clarifies, investigation into flood control projects in Taguig is still ongoing.
04:24Fuel prices will go down starting Tuesday, September 29, after three consecutive weeks of steep increases.
04:31Energy Secretary Sharon Garin announces fuel price adjustments for the week of September 29 to October 5.
04:37Gasoline will have a rollback of 24 centavos per liter, diesel prices will decrease by nearly 8 pesos per liter,
04:44and kerosene by almost 6 pesos per liter.
04:46The rollback comes as the government takes another step to ease the impact of high energy costs on consumers.
04:51President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered on Friday, September 25, the full suspension of excise taxes on liquefied petroleum gas and
04:59kerosene. The measure does not cover gasoline or diesel.
05:03The suspension may last up to three months and will be regularly reviewed by the Development Budget Coordination Committee and
05:08the Department of Energy.
05:12Filipina tennis ace Alex Ayala begins her Asian Games campaign with a strong win against Thailand's Pachurin Cheep Chandej 6
05:18-1, 6-0.
05:20This in the women's singles round of 16 at the Higashiyama Park Tennis Center in Nagoya, Japan on Monday, September
05:2628.
05:26The match is delayed by rain and moved indoors, but Ayala takes only 55 minutes to defeat her opponent.
05:32Ayala receives the top seed and earns a first-round buy.
05:35Ayala will face Chinese Taipei's Joanna Garland in the quarterfinals where a win would guarantee the Filipina another Asian Games
05:42medal.

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