Emergency alerts used in new ways following New York bombing

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Monday’s notification in New York is believed to be the first time authorities used the “wireless emergency alert” system to search for a terror suspect.
The next time an emergency happens in Texas, you could be getting a similar alert. “If there is a barricaded subject in a house maybe armed with a weapon and he’s refusing to come out, we would utilize it to notify the surrounding citizens, to notify them to stay in their homes