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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration has delayed until next month plans to send a message to all U.S. cellphones testing a previously unused presidential alert system that aims to warn the public about national emergencies, officials said on
Monday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-alerts/u-s-pushes-back-national-wireless-alert-test-to-oct-3-idUSKCN1LX1VB
The test message was originally scheduled for 2:18 p.m. EDT (1818 GMT)on Thursday but is being pushed back to the same time on Oct. 3 because of response efforts to Tropical Depression Florence, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said in a
statement.
Florence came ashore in North Carolina on Friday as a hurricane and has caused widespread flooding in North and South Carolina.
FEMA, which will send the alert, said last week that the messages would bear the headline “Presidential Alert,” and that phones will make a loud tone and have a special vibration.
The test has been scheduled to ensure that the alert system would work in the event of a national emergency, and U.S. cellphone users will not be able to opt
out. The message will read: “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System.
No action is needed.”
Former President Barack Obama signed a law in 2016 requiring FEMA to create a system allowing the president to send cellphone alerts regarding public safety emergencies.
The country’s wireless emergency alert system was started in 2012 and has issued over 36,000 alerts for situations such as missing children, extreme weather and natural disasters, but never a presidential directive.
Cellphone users can opt out of natural disaster or missing children alerts.
In its statement last week on the test messages, FEMA said the presidential alerts can be used only for national emergencies and the president has sole responsibility for determining when such alerts are used.
### - oh ho ho! messages from trumpy right on your own phone! (image of smiling
face of trump overlaid by white flashing ' National Alert! hahaha) :)
just testing the emergency public alert system peeps! nada to worry about! back
to work!
BUT... if ya's ever gets a 'presidential' alert, directly, then ya's all know to just duck & cover as per usual, okaaay?? (distinction now made between a local & national short-notice prez-alert...)
million dollar idea: War Room App! Allows you to see the 'big board' + track inbound missiles from your very own location in real time hah!
Only $0.99 - 23 million copies already sold!
special terms & conditions apply :)
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