The American Red Cross encourages communities to stay ready and donate blood or blood platelets if they can during September's National Preparedness Month. The organization is experiencing a national blood emergency following Hurricane Debby and other severe weather events.
Ernesto strengthened into a hurricane as it dropped torrential rain on Puerto Rico and left nearly half of all clients in the U.S. territory without power as it threatened to become a major storm en route to Bermuda.
PBS Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) provides a vital back up path for the delivery of FEMA emergency messages (including severe weather and Amber alerts) to Cellular Providers across the country via the PBS Satellite Network.
See PBS WARNin actionwith a map showing all active Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs) in the US, which WARN is broadcasting in real time.
