Millions of cellphones across the country, including those in the daily White House briefing, blared an emergency alert, part of a nationwide test. https://bit.ly/3ZJkT5V
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Millions of cell phones, TVs and radios in the United States blared distinctive emergency alert tones for about a minute at 2:18 p.m. EDT Wednesday, followed by the message: “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.”
The alert was the first Nationwide Emergency Alert Test since 2018. It was intended by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Communications Commission to alert all Americans across all time zones at once in the event of a national calamity.
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