US agency to work with states to ensure proper safety alerts
WASHINGTON (AP) " The Department of Homeland Security will be working with states to ensure they follow proper protocols when issuing safety alerts and can quickly retract incorrect alerts, like Hawaii's warning of a ballistic missile over the weekend, Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Tuesday.Sen Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said it's clear that human error initiated the false alert. But she worries that system failures allowed it to go uncorrected for too long, nearly 40 minutes. [...]
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