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Strategy, which involves conventional media as well as the new social media, and a new website page, dhs.gov/alert, dhs.gov/alert, which will be continually updated so that people can find new information. finally, one significant change is that the alerts will expire of their own in two weeks. unless the intelligence community recommends to the secretary, that would be me, and i agree, that the alert needs to be continued. this is to avoid the problem of cascading alerts, where they just simply keep adding one on to the other to the other to the other, and people don't know really what is the...

>> all right. jim miklaszewski at andrews air force base this morning. well, the department of homeland security is unveiling its new terror threat warning system. gone is the old color-coded system. it's been replaced now by two threat levels, elevated and imminent. homeland security secretary janet napolitano introduced the new system earlier today on the "today" show. >> it will be specific to geography, to event or incident, and it will sunset in two weeks so we get out of this business of cascading alerts. right now we have no alerts that would qualify for our standards. ultimately if w...