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U.S. News & World Report
America's serious influenza outbreak has touched every state in the continental United States.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there's widespread flu activity from this season's outbreak in all of the continental U.S. – something that hasn't happened in the CDC's 13 years of tracking the spread of influenza via particular surveillance.
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Route Fifty
Hawaiians awoke to a startling message on Saturday morning.
A mobile phone alert went out to residents of the U.S. state after
8 a.m. local time that falsely warned a missile attack was imminent. “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL,” the alert read, based on screenshots posted to social media.
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The Hill
A recent poll found that a majority of Americans are worried about operating cars on the same roads as driverless vehicles.
Sixty-four percent of those surveyed said they are concerned about sharing the streets with driverless vehicles, according to a poll from Advocates for Highway & Auto Safety.
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By Bambi Majumdar
 Police in the U.K. have a new recruit: Amazon's Alexa, the "smart" virtual assistant. In a new experimental initiative launched by the Lancashire Constabulary, Alexa will log reports of crime and provide daily updates to the public. The police will use a dedicated app to issue local news briefings to Amazon Echo owners. This is not the first time Amazon has been linked to crime-fighting, and the use of these new technologies could lead to a whole range of legal and privacy issues.
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EDM Digest
When a major storm rolls into an area, there are often numerous citizens who believe the storm will be dangerous. Then there’s the second camp — the more dangerous camp — who may not believe the storm will be all that intense and do not effectively prepare themselves for the storm.
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Quartz via Nextgov
Lila MacLellan writes: “No one wants me here.”
This cry for reassurance was moaned by a colleague the other day, and I wish I could say I responded generously. I could have said, “It’s not you, it’s whatever illness is behind those thunderous coughs.” I could have urged him to look after himself, not to worry about us. But I selfishly kept my head down, waiting out the awkward silence.
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CNN
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has postponed a planned session on preparing for a nuclear disaster.
The session was to take place Tuesday at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta and was supposed to stream live to anyone wishing to watch.
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Government Technology
During the wave of hurricanes that tore through a number of coastal areas in September, crowdsourcing was a lifesaving tool, allowing residents in need of rescue to input their locations so that first responders could find them and giving relief workers better information to help them navigate the perilous landscape.
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Route Fifty
Compared with other bus system’s in North America, New York City’s is gigantic. It daily serves over 2 million passengers across all five boroughs with 5,700 buses, 330 routes, and 16,000 stops, and it operates in a uniquely hostile environment of stop-and-go traffic. The average NYC bus travels only 7.4 miles per hour — one of the slowest bus speeds in the U.S.
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The Conversation
Scenic hill slopes can be inspiring — or deadly, as we are seeing after the disastrous debris flows that have ravaged the community of Montecito, California in the wake of heavy rains on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. At least 20 people are dead, and four remain missing. More than a hundred buildings have been destroyed or damaged by moving walls of mud and boulders that rumbled down creeks and canyons into houses and roads.
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By Dr. David Hillson
 Risk practitioners seek inspiration from many different places, but not many look to the world of professional dancing to improve their leadership effectiveness. An innovative workshop has recently been developed by LeaderTango, which uses the Argentine tango as a metaphor for the leadership strengths and skills needed to succeed in today's business world. When two dancers perform the Argentine tango, it is an intense and passionate event.
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Emergency Management
On Jan. 5 of the new year, emergency managers sent a letter to the FCC requesting, among other things, to allow a more precise targeting of alerts during a potential disaster and to accomplish via device-based geo-targeting and to do it before May 2019.
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Government Executive
Building nuclear weapons and warning systems that can be relied upon is harder than it was during the Cold War, thanks to the growing number of digital connections between various parts of the nuclear enterprise. Those links are intended to improve everything from commanders’ response times to the accuracy of missile defenses, but they also provide more avenues of attack and make it harder to know your exact level of readiness, according to new reports from U.S. Air Force advisors and a London think tank.
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