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The Record: Tuesday, January 16, 2018

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So you're eating breakfast on Oahu and your phone vibrates. It’s a text, and it says "Emergency Alert. Ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill." What you would you do next? KUOW's Ann Dornfeld will tell you what she did, and it involves Whole Foods.

And what are the odds of human errors like that one leading to an accidental nuclear war? We'll ask investigative journalist Eric Schlosser. He wrote a book about this kind of thing called "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety."

Speaking of warnings, a 19,000-pound Chinese space station is headed toward Earth. We're not suggesting you seek immediate shelter, but we'll ask Geekwire's Alan Boyle what we ought to know.

And KUOW’s Liz Jones tells us about a local immigration activist who's undocumented, and being targeted for possible deportation.

Listen to the full show above or check out a list of our stories.

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