BREAKING: New Terror Threat System For N.J., Nation

A new terror alert system will be coming soon to New Jersey and the rest of the nation, a federal official said

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Monday that a new system - the details of which he did not unveil in a Reuters video - will do more than the color-coded system that ended in 2011.

“We need to get beyond that and go to a new system,” Johnson said.

He said he will announce the new system “soon,” saying it will make it easier for people to respond and report “what we are seeing.”

It will be the third terror alert system put in place by the Homeland Security Department since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, according to The Associated Press. The color-coded system was replaced in 2011 by the National Threat Advisory System, which has never been used, Johnsons said in the video.

Johnson announced the new alert system during a forum with Defense One magazine, saying the National Threat Advisory System hasn’t been used because it requires a specific, credible threat to the U.S. in order to be activated, according to the AP.

The plan to change the alert system was announced in the wake of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, which President Obama called “an act of terrorism.”

The FBI is investigating whether the shooting suspects Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were inspired by ISIS to carry out the attacks that killed 14 people attending a holiday party.