Seoul stadium bomb threat for Padres vs. Dodgers game found negative

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Seoul stadium bomb threat for Padres vs. Dodgers game found negative;  Nvidia unveils its latest line of 'superchips';  Floridians see immigrations as a top issue in Nov. 2024 elections

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00:00 Good evening, this is Monique Touzon and this is PTV News Now.

00:05 America's pastime has finally come to baseball crazy South Korea.

00:10 Major League Baseball is opening its spring training games for the 2024 season

00:14 in one of its biggest international markets with a blockbuster twin bill for today and tomorrow

00:20 pitting the formidable San Diego Padres and the game's most popular team right now, the Los Angeles Dodgers.

00:27 Featuring baseball's biggest superstar and highest paid player in professional sports,

00:31 2023 reigning American League MVP Shohei Ohtani.

00:36 But with half a day left before the opening game at 6pm in Seoul, 5am Eastern Time, 5pm Manila Time,

00:43 Seoul police acting on a tip allegedly threatening to hurt Ohtani,

00:47 scrambled to search Seoul's Gocheok Sky Dome for explosives to no avail.

00:53 South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said the threat was written in English and sent via email

00:59 allegedly by one claiming to be a Japanese lawyer to a foreign service worker

01:04 in the Consulate General of South Korea in Vancouver, Canada.

01:08 South Korean cops and stadium workers combed through the stadium earlier today

01:12 and declared the venue clear and safe.

01:15 The Dodgers played division rival Padres at 6pm today

01:19 and it is not yet known if Dodger megastar Shohei Ohtani takes to the mound or pinch hits later in the game.

01:26 Ohtani was last season's hands down American League MVP,

01:30 selected for his ability to hit for power at the plate and an excellent hurler on the mound.

01:36 A modern day and supercharged version of Babe Ruth.

01:40 The hottest company in Silicon Valley is upping the ante

01:45 against its even bigger tech rivals in chip makers AMD and Intel

01:50 which are struggling to keep pace in the race to build the most powerful AI superchips.

01:56 NVIDIA unveiled in its annual develop conference in its Santa Clara headquarters

02:01 its latest superchips in its Blackwell line of super processors.

02:05 A quantum computing service and a new suite of tools that will help run power hungry AI data centers

02:12 and help develop the ultimate science fiction dream of utility humanoid robotics.

02:18 One of the superchips unveiled in yesterday's on-site conference was the GB200

02:23 which squeezes two B200 superchips on a single board alongside the company's gray CPU.

02:30 NVIDIA says the GB200 offers 30 times the performance for servers that run chatbots like CLOD or chatGPT.

02:39 The system also promises to cut down on energy consumption by up to 25 times.

02:44 The millions of illegal immigrants who've entered the United States since US President Joe Biden took power

02:52 some 5 to 6 million estimated will be among the top three issues Americans will weigh in on before voting in November.

03:00 And even more in the Sunshine State where Republican governor and failed GOP presidential wannabe Ron DeSantis

03:07 signed three bills earlier this week to curb illegal immigration.

03:12 VOA senior Washington correspondent Carolyn Persutti tells us more.

03:17 You might say Lucy Sophie is a true mother hen protecting newborn chicks near her store.

03:26 Here in Key West harming a chicken or a rooster carries a big fine.

03:33 A French-American voted Tuesday as a US citizen for the first time.

03:37 Sophie was energized for former President Donald Trump like most other Florida Republicans.

03:42 How they feel about the country, how they feel about belonging to this country and you bring that pride to Americans.

03:50 Maybe I'm not really very excited about his slogan I will make America great.

03:56 I wish he just can say I will make Americans great.

04:00 Sophie's town of Key West Florida has a party vibe especially along Duval Street packed with raucous bars and crazy visitors.

04:11 In Key West is the southernmost point in the United States.

04:16 145 kilometers across the water here is Cuba.

04:20 Haiti just a little bit further.

04:22 So that's why immigration is such a hot political topic here.

04:26 Since October the US Coast Guard has rescued and sent back more than 100 Haitians trying to enter Key West and southern Florida.

04:34 That compares with more than 300 repatriated Cubans.

04:38 Tammy Spurlock welcomes them to a point.

04:44 I think they're absolutely vital to Key West.

04:46 They keep our city beautiful.

04:48 They're what keeps us going.

04:50 Do I think that everybody needs to come in legally? Absolutely.

04:53 But they are vital.

04:55 Donald Trump who promises mass deportations if he's reelected voted Tuesday near his home in Palm Beach Florida.

05:02 They have to close the borders. Our country is dying.

05:05 Our country is being overridden. This is an invasion.

05:09 President Joe Biden was not on the Florida ballot Tuesday.

05:13 Instead he was campaigning in the southwest where he criticized Trump.

05:17 Now he says immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country.

05:21 What the hell is he talking about?

05:23 And some of those immigrants, specifically Haitians, are fleeing violence at home.

05:28 But this first-time voter isn't making exceptions.

05:31 I understand that that's an issue but it's still not an excuse to illegally break the law.

05:40 Still at least one immigrant a day leaves home and braves the dangerous Florida straits in search of better days ahead.

05:51 Carolyn Persuti, VOA News, Key West, Florida.

05:55 And at this juncture we turn to our colleague in PTV's Pine City Studios for the latest development brewing in the Fort Hellieras.

06:05 Eddie Carta.

06:07 Good evening, Philippines.

06:09 We are still in the midst of the forest fire incident.

06:12 We are still in the midst of the cloud ceiling operation conducted by the Air Force Weather Group, also known as the Villamor Air Base.

06:21 The cloud ceiling and weather modification technique was produced by the TUDO of Ulof Babanitasi.

06:28 He is the deputy group commander.

06:30 He helped in the operation that resulted in the destruction of the fort.

06:34 The Air Force Weather Group, also known as the Office of Civil Defense and Bureau of Fire Protection,

06:40 conducted the operation TLC-210 Fixed Wing with a Cessna rain-making aircraft.

06:47 The cloud ceiling was also conducted by the PAPT.

06:52 It was also intentionally and intentionally constructed to prevent the cloud from falling.

06:56 Thank you, Toguan, to the Philippine Air Force, RDRNMC, Air Component, Disaster Response Operations, and to Cordillera, Region 1.

07:06 The good thing is that the BFP, the personnel of BFP are in the area.

07:12 They will be the ones to feed us.

07:14 So, there is coordination with BFP, OCD, and the Air Force.

07:19 Once we confirm that there will be suitable clouds, our aircraft will take off for cloud ceiling operation.

07:28 In the next episode, we will continue our conversation with Lib Song,

07:34 who was involved in the destruction of the Jaya Abra Fort in the Panawan of Panagtutudo.

07:38 We will also discuss the effects of the armed conflicts.

07:45 The road project of the National Task Force to End Local Armed Conflict, or NTF-LCAC,

07:52 was not completed.

07:53 The road was not built.

07:56 The local access road was not built.

07:59 The road was not built and the transportation was not done.

08:02 The funds that were allocated to the project were not spent.

08:08 The funding for the upgrading of the local access road was not spent.

08:15 Lib Song helped in the support of the Barangay Development Program, SBDP Fund, for 2022.

08:22 The NTF-LCAC project was not completed.

08:25 SBDP's project was not completed.

08:27 We are sure that this implementation will be completed for the community.

08:35 This is Edicarta, reporting for PTV.

08:42 That's all for tonight.

08:44 We look forward to seeing you again tomorrow at the same time,

08:47 at the same location, on your remote and/or browser,

08:50 for the latest breaking news here and elsewhere on the planet.

08:53 Always remember to work hard, dream big, give thanks,

08:57 and stay connected while you catch the news right here.

09:00 Monique Tuzon here, wishing you all a restful evening ahead.

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