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That warned Ballistic Missile threat inbound to hawaii. This is not a drill. Parents hiding their children in manholes. Families huddled in closets. And what weve now learned tonight. And Olympic Gymnast simone biles. Her brave words. What she has just revealed. Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on this Martin Luther king jr. Holiday. And we have a lot of news to get to. We begin tonight with that new winter storm moving across the country at this hour. The Alberta Clipper bri...

Families to race into world war ii-era bunkers. tourists to gather in hotel basements. >> i had my mom on speakerphone, on the mainland, and i was calling and saying good-bye, you know, to my family. >> reporter: all starting during a shift change when officials tell abc news an employee mistakenly clicked "missile alert" instead of the test option. 8:07 saturday morning, the warning -- >> this is not a drill. >> reporter: in just three minutes, at 8:10, the command center knows its a false alar...

How prepared hawaii and the u.s. government might be if a missile were actually on the way. lets get right to correspondent rene. it may have sparked some action from the u.s. government this time. >> thats right. took get prepared. tonight there are questions about how well versed state, local and federal officials are in working together to get accurate information out to people in a panic, in the event of a nuclear missile attack. in hawaii, we saw that this false alarm essentially revealed t...