Five Things You Need to Know Today: Nov. 9

1) Weather Watch — National Weather Service forecasters are predicting a sunny day. The day's high temperature will be near 63.

2) Tide Watch — Today's low tide at  is 3:38 am (.94 ft). High tide is 9:56 am (9.58 ft). The sun will rise at 6:26 am and set at 4:27 pm. 

3) Swampscott Scrambler — Unscramble these letters to spell the name of a Swampscott person, place or thing (answer to be posted tomorrow):

rnetvae

Tuesday's answer: parking

4) In 1967, the first issue of Rolling Stone was published in San Francisco. John Lennon was on the cover. (From http://www.on-this-day.com)

5) It's Only a Test Watch — Just so you are aware, today FEMA, DHS and FCC will conduct the first national test of the Nationwide Emergency Alert System test.

This nationwide test will kick off at 2 p.m. and run concurrently across all time zones.

This system test is the first of its kind designed to broadcast a nationwide message to the American public. In the history of the country, nothing like it has been conducted on such a level.

As you may be aware, there have been tests in the past, but not of this magnitude encompassing all regions of the nation simultaneously. The three minute test will run concurrently on all radio and TV band stations exceeding the previous messages broadcast which were anywhere from a 30 second to 1 minute message.

Below are two websites that will provide more information regarding this test:
http://www.fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/eas_info.shtm
https://nationaldialogue-emergencyalertsystem.ideascale.com/