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Welcome back. New at 10. An emergency
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notification system used by agencies in
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our region taken offline in a cyber
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attack. Code Red is used to send tornado
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warnings and alerts about other
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emergencies straight to your phone.
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Russell Kinsaw has a look at the impact
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and the efforts to restore the system.
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Right now, I'm in Eureka, just one of
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the cities in the St. Louis region that
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uses the Code Red emergency notification
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system to alert its residents to
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tornadoes and other types of
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emergencies. makes you feel a little
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less safe. So, I hope that they can
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Alyssa Peterson works in Eureka and
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hadn't heard the city was unable to use
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the code red emergency notification
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But this important I I consider that
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this this system is important for the
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Michael Wurgis is the Eureka Chief of
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Apparently, they were the victim of a
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Wurges says about half of the city's
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residents have signed up to receive code
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red alerts. The system is first and
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foremost used to send tornado warnings
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and thunderstorm warnings direct to
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Cities could also use the system to
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notify residents about streets that are
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closed due to water main breaks or send
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a notification about a highway closure
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because of an accident.
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It's unfortunate because I think this
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definitely does hurt communication in a
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Or says the city will still be able to
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get important messages out to the
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community using social media and email.
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Code Red has been down since early
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November, around like November 13th.
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Mike Thornton is the emergency
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management director of Warren County. He
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posted a message on the AY's Facebook
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page today to alert his county's
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residents about the nationwide outage
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I'm very concerned about how people will
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receive their information.
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I reached out to the company that
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operates the code red system to ask them
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when that service will be restored as
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code red or as another service. I'm
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still waiting to hear back from the
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company in Eureka. Russell Kinsaw first
