Following Wednesday's attack, the KCC raised its cyber-attack alert levels to "caution, " the third highest out of five levels.

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In Russia, authorities are on high alert monitoring radiation levels along the shore.

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The agency confirmed that both the flood alert and flood warning levels been breached overnight.

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It is the second time in a month that Peterborough City Hospital has declared a "major incident" alert because of high levels of illness in the region.

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Monitoring equipment at Thirlmere, Glendermackin, Low Briery, Greta Bridge, Keswick campsite and Lodore will alert the agency when river trigger levels are reached.

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The Commission notes that an Alert is the second lowest of four NRC action levels.

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In addition, we have made calls to officials from states and major cities throughout the past week reminding them to be on heightened alert, and now I have called on them to increase their levels of security.

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The FBI said the threat level for those states and the nation as a whole remains at "yellow, " or "elevated, " the third of five levels of risk according to the government's newly devised threat alert system.

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With work stress at disturbing levels in an uncertain marketplace, the American Psychological Association among others, have sounded the alert to big business that a stress-out overwhelmed workforce is no way to compete.

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