PBBM, pinatitiyak ang pag-iikot ng medical teams sa evacuation centers; Pangulo, pinatututukan ang epekto ng paglubog ng isang oil tanker sa Bataan
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00:00President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. ordered for a more detailed assessment and response to help our fellow countrymen.
00:08In addition, the D.O.T.R. wrote to the President that an oil tanker sank in Bataan in the midst of a bad time.
00:16Here is the center of my news.
00:21President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. is true to the situation of the country.
00:26This is followed by widespread flooding in various places.
00:28There was a heavy downpour in Baguio, Carina, which was intensified by the storm Habagat.
00:33Earlier, the President personally informed the country of the situational briefing at the Presidential Security Command Center Headquarters.
00:41This is where various government agencies laid down their plans following the calamity.
00:47But under the President's directive, he ordered government agencies to have a more detailed assessment of the situation across the country.
00:56This is important for the government to know what assistance should be given, especially where the priority should be deployed.
01:05What we need to know now is what is the situation then.
01:08Is there water? Can we enter? Do we need to clean the oil tank?
01:15What we need to ascertain now is what is the situation as of this morning and where do we go?
01:25Where do we send our people? Where do we send our equipment? That's what we need to define, to decide now.
01:32We're in the NCR, but it's not NCR only. It's Region 3, Calabarzon 4A.
01:40So we need to look at it.
01:43We have to make an assessment as to where are the areas that should be prioritized.
01:53The Executive Board also laid down infrastructures such as floodgates, pumping stations, and several bridges that were damaged due to flooding.
02:04What we need to know is not what's required, but can we use it or not.
02:08That's all for now.
02:10Yes.
02:11Are we using it or not?
02:13Oh God.
02:14This is too strong.
02:18Yes, sir.
02:19No matter what you do, you won't be able to control it.
02:23The Executive Board also issued a D.E.N.R. that there will be an environmental assessment
02:28on the sinking of an oil tanker in Bataan that contains 1.4 million liters of oil.
02:34The President wants to avoid oil spill as soon as possible.
02:37Hopefully, we can catch it before landfall, but with the seas being so...
02:46It's a big ocean.
02:48The Coast Guard was reporting that it's 3-4 meters high.
02:54So it's very hard to do anything.
02:56But hopefully, that will help us dilute the oil spill.
03:04But we'll see.
03:06We'll have to make that determination as to where the tides are running, how the wind is running.
03:13If in case it is headed towards coastal areas, which coastal areas are those?
03:21So that we can try and prepare for that.
03:23According to the Executive Board,
03:25it should also be noted that the individuals who are currently staying at evacuation centers.
03:31The next part of this is going to be health care.
03:35Sometimes, we forget that.
03:37But those in the evacuated areas will need to have a clinic in every evacuation center
03:43or at least a medical team.
03:47The long-term problem usually when this happens is medicine.
03:51So that's another thing we have to prepare with.
03:53That there's medicine.
03:55The medicines I'm talking about are the obvious ones.
03:59When there's a flood or something like that.
04:06The other medicines are the maintenance medicines for the seniors.
04:10Because they were separated from their supplies.
04:12He also wanted the government agencies to act quickly
04:16on the individuals affected.
04:18According to the DSWD,
04:20more than 300,000 family food packs have been distributed
04:24in NCR, Central Luzon, Calabarzon, Mimaropa, and Bicol.
04:30Until this morning,
04:3236 places in the country have declared a state of calamity,
04:36including Metro Manila.
04:38We have to be very focused in the use of what we have.
04:42So that's what we need to determine.
04:44Where are the areas that still are in the rescue phase?
04:50Where are the areas that are now in the relief phase?
04:58That doesn't mean
05:01That doesn't mean that it's not mutually exclusive.
05:05You can be in the rescue phase and the relief phase at the same time.
05:07So that's what we need to know.
05:09As of now, Bagyong Karina has left the country.
05:11And according to the DOS,
05:13it is expected that the weather will get better
05:15in the next few days.
05:17Kenneth Paciente, for Pambansang TV, in Bagong, Philippines.