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 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 syst
Ensuring state and local governments have the proper safeguards to properly alert the public of an impending emergency is absolutely critical. False alerts not only create unnecessary panic, they undermine the Emergency Alert system leading to public distrust and what happened in hawaii must be addressed to make sure it never happens again. It is essential that americans have an Emergency Alert system they could trust and i believe they do. There is much that is working well with the Emergency Alert system. In fact it is arguably a model Public Private program through the warren act. Industry partners including those represented here today have been investing to improve the system and working collaboratively with government and Public Safety officials to carry out the mission. We special did not want to overlook the successes but as recent events have shown, there are problems that must be addressed. Todays hearing is the first of two on Emergency Alert systems. The near future will ho
Alerts like we saw with the hawaii Ballistic Missile warning earlier this month. Ensuring state and local governments have the proper safeguards to properly alert the public of an impending emergency is absolutely critical. False alerts not only create unnecessary panic, they undermine the Emergency Alert system leading to public distrust and what happened in hawaii must be addressed to make sure it never happens again. It is essential that americans have an Emergency Alert system they could trust and i believe they do. There is much that is working well with the Emergency Alert system. In fact it is arguably a model Public Private program through the warren act. Industry partners including those represented here today have been investing to improve the system and working collaboratively with government and Public Safety officials to carry out the mission. We special did not want to overlook the successes but as recent events have shown, there are problems that must be addressed. Today
Primarily west of the 495 loop were still seeing some reduced visibility. Lowlevel clouds a little bit of fog. Thats mixing out pretty quickliment. Our main concern is the chance for coastal flooding. Minor coastal flooding in relation to Coastal Flood Advisory from 10 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. Were stilling with some of the king tides as well. In relation to the super moon that we saw through the weekend into monday. And were looking at high tide at noon. Ill have more details on that after the break. Time n lets get over to Danielle Gersh where theres a development on the roadways. Theres a couple of accidents out there. Its really busy. Look at 93 as you make your way through summerville. Lets go to maps and start with map in peabody that just cleared. We have two accidents one were watching on Memorial Drive at mountain auburn street. Is actually a headon collision. Hearing no serious injuries. Some good alls there. Braintree to boston on the expressway over half an hour. Weymouth. An
Primarily west of the 495 loop were still seeing some reduced visibility. Lowlevel clouds a little bit of fog. Thats mixing out pretty quickliment. Our main concern is the chance for coastal flooding. Minor coastal flooding in relation to Coastal Flood Advisory from 10 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. Were stilling with some of the king tides as well. In relation to the super moon that we saw through the weekend into monday. And were looking at high tide at noon. Ill have more details on that after the break. Time n lets get over to Danielle Gersh where theres a development on the roadways. Theres a couple of accidents out there. Its really busy. Look at 93 as you make your way through summerville. Lets go to maps and start with map in peabody that just cleared. We have two accidents one were watching on Memorial Drive at mountain auburn street. Is actually a headon collision. Hearing no serious injuries. Some good alls there. Braintree to boston on the expressway over half an hour. Weymouth. An