deadly force will be used to protect this area

[intertribal]

You know in disaster movies/episodes how the news anchor always says, "some people are calling it the end of days" or "some have feared this means the end of the world"*?

Would a news anchor really say that to a million already panicked people?  And if so, what the hell would possess them to do so?

* parodied on the Simpsons when they tune in to the news just in time to see Kent Brockman say, "which, if true, means death for us all", before cutting away to something else.