[BC] BUSH ORDERS UPDATE OF EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM

[Barry Mishkind]

At 07:31 AM 6/27/2006, Harold Hallikainen wrote

>BUSH ORDERS UPDATE OF EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM
>[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Spencer S. Hsu]
>President Bush yesterday ordered Homeland Security Secretary Michael
>Chertoff to overhaul the nation's hodgepodge of public warning systems

         ... preceded by a visit from a phalanx of EB personnel.

         ... then store them next to the mobile homes
         currently stored somewhere in the south.

>The Emergency Alert System, best known for weather bulletins and
>Amber Alerts for missing children, should be upgraded to explore
>communicating by cellphones, personal digital assistants and text
>pagers targeted to geographic areas or specific groups, U.S.
>officials said.

         It *might be* that someone read some of
         the suggestions in the recent Rulemaking.

>implement a freshly stated U.S. policy "to ensure that under all
>conditions the President can communicate with the American people,"
>including in cases of war, terrorist attack, natural disaster or
>other public danger. The move follows mounting criticism that the
>nation's alert systems are outmoded relics of the Cold War.

         We'll have to upgrade the specifications for
         the AMBER Operators Corps.

         Rich - there may be a new carrer for you here!