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ominous alert across the state. ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii. seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. within minutes, the head of the agency was in contact with the american military leaders in the region. u.s. pacific command confirmed to the agency that there was no missile inbound to the islands. that was at 8:10 a.m. hawaii time. by 8:13 a.m. hawaii time, the state cancelled future delivery of any text messages preventing them from being sent to phones out of coverage areas or turned off when the original message was sent. but they didn t send a follow-up to the phones that had received it, at least not yet. less than 15 minutes after the original message at 8:19 a.m., hawaii congresswoman tweeted out that the message was a false alarm. in the following minutes, state s emergency management agency also sent out notifications that there was no inbound missile. no missile threat to hawaii.

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