WASHINGTON -- This is why you may have gotten a notification from the White House on Wednesday. The government tested a new national alert system that would let presidents send out emergency messages ...
A test of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System blasted out by cell towers nationwide over a 30-minute period, was expected to reach some 225 million people in an unprecedented federal exercise ...
UPDATE @ 2:25 p.m.: Cell phones across the country have received the “Presidential Alert,” a test of the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alert system. RELATED: After delay, ...