Precisely targeted to areas where there is an emergency. When Deadly Wildfires igniter in Northern California last october, some local authorities chose not to push out a wireless alert. They cited fears you look would have gone out to people who are not in harms way. Potentially provoking a mass exodus that could clog the roads and prevent those action in danger from reaching safety. With todays action of the commission has addressed this problem and made an important lifesaving tool even more effective. These new rules require wireless carriers to deliver alerts at more precisely match the affected area. So i will go to local officials to use these alerts during emergencies, and encourage americans to take alerts more circe. Since folks know any alert they receive relates to an emergency that is in their vicinity. The new rules will require alerts to be preserved on consumers phones for 24 hours which make it easier to access and use the information contained in those alerts. Im poli
Lesions between north and south korea for now it looks like the ice has been broken with whats being described as a historic handshake between south koreas leader. And Kim Joey Jong the sister of north koreas leader the toxic i reports. A step towards reconciliation for the First Time Since the korean war more than half a century ago a member of north koreas ruling family is welcomed in the south the arrival of leader kim jong sr is fascinating Many South Koreans jiang has quickly become a power broker in another historic moment south korean president moon j. In greeted her at the Opening Ceremony before she sat near u. S. Vice president mike pence the two didnt appear to Exchange Greetings then the moment many had been waiting for north and south korean athletes marched under a unified flag as a celebration of ethnic nationalism its the first time theyve done that at an International Sporting event in eleven years moon said the Winter Olympics offer a meaningful opportunity for a worl
Many in the Public Safety community have said wireless Emergency Alerts need to be more precisely targeted to areas where there is an emergency. When Deadly Wildfires igniter in Northern California last october, some local authorities chose not to push out a wireless alert. They cited fears you look would have gone out to people who are not in harms way, potentially provoking a mass exodus that could clog the roads and prevent those actions in danger from reaching safety. With todays action of the commission has addressed this problem and made an important lifesaving tool even more effective. These new rules require wireless carriersto deliver alerts at more precisely match the affected area. So i will go to local officials to use these alerts during emergencies, and encourage americans to take alerts more circe. Since folks know any alert they receive relates to anemergency that is in their vicinity. The new rules will require alerts to be preserved on consumers phones for 24 hours wh
The president called the explosion another attack by a loser terrorist and suggested London Police missed an opportunity to prevent it in an earlymorning tweet. His travel ban that targets mostly muslim nations should be larger, tougher, and more specific, but that would not be politically correct. The president will meet with leaders of south korea and japan next week in the wake of last nights Missile Launch by north korea, according to an administration official. The u. S. Is not planning to announce any further retaliation, and there are no plans to push for additional sanctions. The u. S. Continues to lean on china to use it Oil Deliveries as leverage against north korea. Has cut off medicaid funding to a nursing home were eight people died after Hurricane Irma. Workers say the air conditioning failed during the storm as they struggled to keep residents cool. Police have opened a criminal investigation. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analyst
Helicopters move in with yet another water drop. This is an area dotted by some of the most famous wineries in the world including the Robert Mondavi winery. The flames are miles away at this point. Cal fire believes it is making progress. Officials say the plans to let the flames continue to march down toward the valley and meet the containment lines theyve diligently dug. There are a lot of fingers and canyons in there. So if its too steep or the vegetation is too continuance and its too dangerous to put too deep and its too dangerous to put people in there, well use aircraft and use the lines put in in front of the main fire to begin stopping that fire at this point. Reporter suffice it to say cal fire seems to have a level of confidence that theyre going to eventually be able to get this stretch of fire under control in, part because of the control, in part because of the weather and also in large part because they now have a lot of resources theyve been needing both on the ground