State Offiicals: Federal Government Was Testing Satellite System, Inadvertently Activated EAS <br /><br />"An emergency alert announced on TV and radio stations in Illinois this morning appears to be the result of a human error in Washington, D.C. "Apparently, there's some kind of test being run that shouldn't be going out," Lawrence said. "(IEMA) is getting besieged with phone calls from all over... <br /><br />"All television channels, including Channel 2 in Chicago, posted an emergency bulletin for District of Columbia and although you could see the news, you could not hear it," viewer Jan Hergesheimer wrote to CBS 2 Tuesday morning. "(It) was pretty scary for about 20 minutes." <br /><br /><a class="link" rel="nofollow" href="http://nevernwo.blogspot.com/">http://nevernwo.blogspot.com/</a>
