Donald Trump plans to text you Wednesday, whether you want him to or not. The first nationwide test of the government’s Presidential Alert system will unfold at 2:18 pm ET, when almost every ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is testing a new "presidential alert" system this week, allowing for a message to be sent to every telephone in the U.S.

First nationwide test for 'Presidential Alert' The Federal Emergency Management Agency, Federal Communications Commission, and local authorities use the warning system as a way to keep people ...

A majority of cell phone users will receive an alert on Thursday, September 20, with the header “Presidential Alert” and the message, “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert ...

WASHINGTON -- This is why you may have gotten a notification from the White House on Wednesday. The government tested a new national alert system that would let presidents send out emergency ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will next month test a new “presidential alert” system that will allow the president to send a message to every phone in the US.

Expect phones across the country to be simultaneously alerted just before 1:20 p.m. on Wednesday, when federal officials conduct the first-ever test of the country’s emergency communications … ...

Here’s what Vail learned when it tried out the “Presidential Alert” messaging system FEMA will test Wednesday First ever alert will be tested at 12:18 p.m. on Oct. 3 ...

WASHINGTON -- This is why you may have gotten a notification from the White House on Wednesday. The government tested a new national alert system that would let presidents send out emergency ...

WASHINGTON -- This is why you may have gotten a notification from the White House on Wednesday. The government tested a new national alert system that would let presidents send out emergency ...

Presidential Alert: System test sent to phones nationwide. Walter Perez reports during Action News at 4:30pm on October 3, 2018.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Communications Commission sent the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) and the Emergency Alert System (EAS) on Wednesday, Oct. 3.