11/9/11

Aspen Streety

The words -- This is a test. This is only a test -- are very familiar. But if you were tuned into broadcast stations or cable channels today at one P-M, you experienced those words in a historic way. It was the first-ever nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System. According to C-N-N, the test featured a live presidential alert code, which takes precedent over all other programming. In the case of a real emergency, the alert system would allow the president to speak to everyone in the nation from any location.

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