Theyve brought in special lighting equipment so they can continue to search at night. In a time of search and rescue, every Second Counts especially before the sun goes down. Some people clinging to trees and picked by the helicopters. Were going to hold out as long ooze as we can for survivors. Reporter many are missing. At least 17 people are dead. Our neighbors had their entire house washed off the foundation. Reporter thousands are homeless after heavy rainfall triggered mudslides in montecito. Look at all those houses. Just unbelievable. Reporter sending hills crumbling onto multimillion dollar homes in these affluent communities. Hi guys. Reporter good news for one neighbor whose four dogs were rescued from a home drowning in mud. Just down the street, a very different story for another family. I love you. Reporter 69yearold josie is missing. Her son tells us she was swept away in a mudslide. The family still hoping for a miracle rescue. She was an amazing woman. She was one of a
Him or not, or believe that he could fulfill that were not, they were prepared to take a chance. Sunday eastern on q a. Now to hearing on the nations Emergency Alert system. Fcc officials and communication Industry Leaders testified before the Senate Conference irons and transportation committee. They discussed the false alarms statewide Emergency Alert in hawaii earlier this month. This hearing is almost 2 hours. Good morning and welcome to these hearings on our countrys Emergency Alert system. I hope to hear from our panel about whats working , whats not and what we can do to better prevent alerts like we saw with the hallway Ballistic Missile warning earlier this month. Sharing state and local governments the safeguards to properly alert the public of an impending emergency is critical. Alerts not only create an unnecessary panic but undermine the integrity of the alert system learning to distrust and confusion. What happened in hawaii must be addressed to ensure an incident like th
John. Of south dakota. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning and welcome to todays hearing on her countries will Emergency Alert system that i hope to give our panel about whats working, whats not on what we can do to better prevent false alerts like we saw with the hawaii Ballistic Missile warning this month. Ensuring State Government has the proper tools to alert the public of and that tempt emergency is radical. Fall sports not only create unnecessary panic they undermine the Emergency Alert system leading to confusion. What happened and why is inexcusable must be addressed to ensure that its not like that never happens again prints essential american have an emergency system they can trust overwhelmingly by and large and i believe they do. Theres much that is workinge well with the Emergency Alert system. In fact its operating by this committee through the warrant act. Industry partners including those representative here today have been investing to impr
Better prevent alerts like we saw with the hallway Ballistic Missile warning earlier this month. Sharing state and local governments the safeguards to properly alert the public of an impending emergency is critical. Alerts not only create an unnecessary panic but undermine the integrity of the alert system learning to distrust and confusion. What happened in hawaii must be addressed to ensure an incident like that never happens again. It is essential americans have an alert system they can trust by and large, i believe they do. Theres much that is working well with the Emergency Alert system, its arguably a model of publicprivate programs operating as envisioned by this committee through the war in. Industry partners including those represented have been investing to improve the system and are working with government and Public Safety to carry out the mission. We serve certainly do not want to overlook the success but as recent events have shown, there are problems that must be address
Lady. Stephen smith is very wellpositioned to examine and analyze this work. Many of you know him as the executive editor and host of american radio works in an acclaimed documentary series from American Public media. He has covered a wide range of issues including human rights, science and health, and american history. They have been awarded this and please join me in welcoming them to the reading festival. [applause] and good afternoon, everyone. And we have this radio documentary on franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and pioneering broadcasters and this is a commercially sponsored thing while she was first lady. It is about first family of radio. And especially what had happened with loads of the Radio Broadcasts. We have a documentary about as well. And so a show of hands, im not saying how many have heard the original of the radio broadcast and how many have of the commercial radio broadcast and so we have some things to learn about until we have a clip of the speech that was not a br