Why is it that before 9/11 they always showed the emergency broadcast system test, and on 9/11 they never used it?

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hmmmm, I guess it happened so fast that by the time everyone realised what had just happened it was too late, besides arnt the radio/tv alerts for weather/ missing persons alerts.

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