On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Martin Hannigan wrote:

Is anyone running an automated Terror Alert system that's real time with the DHS?

CNN (or Fox, MSNBC, etc) news satellite feed (for national alerts) Radio Shack National Weather Service Alert radio (for local alerts) Individual states have other alert systems. For example, California has EDIS, Oklahoma and Florida have their own systems. When the alert level was raised from Yellow to Orange, the DHS web site was updated long after all the 24-hour news networks were running scrolls across the bottom of the screen announcing the upcoming press conference about the change. But what would you do with the information?