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The Obama administration quietly announced on Tuesday that it intends to change the way Americans learn about natural disasters and other major emergencies during radio and TV broadcasts, giving the president the ability to flip a switch jayco used travel trailers and address the entire nation at once.
The Emergency Alert System, the latest version of a program first established in 1951, blasts out  emergency messages in the event of local weather emergencies, but can also be used to warn Americans about terror attacks and major natural disasters.
Every broadcaster in the country is required to participate in the EAS. Messages travel along a closed, private network, piggybacking from station to station. It can take up to 10 minutes for every radio, TV, cable and satellite provider to blare its alert.
ost messages in the system are restricted to specific states, counties or other geographic areas. But now the Federal Communications Commission has filed public notice of a rule change that would bypass the daisy-chain entirely and give the federal government instant access to all the nation s airwaves at once, in the event of a national emergency.
The congressional aide also said that with more and more Americans going online for information, social media is already replacing broadcast jayco used travel trailers emergency messages as the best way to spread urgent news .
If we have another 9/11, the people who hear about it through an EAS message are going to be the last to know, he said. By the time you hear that annoying buzz sound on the radio, all your friends will have tweeted about it.