{"id":744228,"date":"2018-10-02T13:45:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T18:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=744228"},"modified":"2018-10-03T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T18:18:08","slug":"nationwide-alert-set-for-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=744228","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide Alert Set for Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/10\/presidential-alert.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/10\/presidential-alert-200x161.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"161\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-744229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/10\/presidential-alert-200x161.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/10\/presidential-alert.jpeg 351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>EAST TEXAS &#8211; Don&#8217;t be surprised if your cell phone, and all those around you, goes off Wednesday. In fact, cell phones all across the country will go off Wednesday afternoon at 1:18 East Texas time. It is first nationwide test of a wireless emergency alert system. FEMA says the alert will not interrupt a phone call or an active data session. Even if you have opted out of other emergency alerts, you should still receive the national alert. The message will say,  &#8220;Presidential Alert: This is a test of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.&#8221;  About two minutes later, the broadcast system will send a similar message through radio and television stations. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The national-level alert is meant to be used in the case of national threats like a nuclear attack or terrorist attacks in multiple cities. And just because the alert is being called a &#8220;Presidential Level Alert,&#8221; it is not coming from the president. Emergency messages are pre-written and approved by various government agencies in advance of any test or emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8211; Don&#8217;t be surprised if your cell phone, and all those around you, goes off Wednesday. In fact, cell phones all across the country will go off Wednesday afternoon at 1:18 East Texas time. It is first nationwide test of a wireless emergency alert system. FEMA says the alert will not interrupt a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=744228\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nationwide Alert Set for Wednesday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":744229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 23:50:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744232,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744228\/revisions\/744232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/744229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}