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A missile would be launched from north korea to the time it would make it here and make impact here in hawaii. its a very short time for people to figure out what to do and to take shelter. we were also able to speak with one of the state representatives here who was in tears talking about the fact that he had to explain this to his children and take shelter in his house while he was also trying to get information out to his constituents and what a difficult, difficult thing it was to have a con...

Officials confirm an employee erroneously sent the warning, disseminated to mobile devices across the state by initially clicking the wrong option during the test, then confirming a subsequent prompt that distributed the mass alert. >> there was a screen that says are you sure you want to do this? thats already in place. now, we had one person, human error, and that was pushed anyway. >> reporter: the employee reportedly didnt realize his mistake until he received the emergency alert on his own ...

The incident prompted immediate anger and outrage from state leaders, hawaii senator brian schatz calling it an abomination. the governor of hawaii saying the false alarm was totally unacceptable. officials blame human error for the mistake, saying an employee pressed the wrong button during a shift change. the frightening false alarm adds to the stress hawaiians are already feeling over the escalated nuclear tensions between the u.s. and north korea. i want to get straight to democratic congres...

Accidentally pressed the wrong button during a shift change. they were testing the system and they have been testing the system here in hawaii, but never anything like this. the test is an actual emergency siren, an attack siren that goes off and they have told the population here what its all about, but, indeed, in this time, it wasnt the attack system that went off. it was a message to television viewers. it was a message through the radio, and a text message on the cell phone. as emergency ma...

Of their emergency broadcasting system that issued a civil danger warning and later the island authorities had to say that this was human error. not on the scale of what we saw in hawaii, but nonetheless, coming -- it was bad timing indeed. meanwhile, japan, a can country that periodically is threatened by north korea, which often fires missiles in the direction of japan, and even over japanese territory, over the course of the last year, it has begun conducting drills in different municipalitie...

A while to notify everyone. >> reporter: the mistake happened during a routine test during a shift change. officials confirm an employee erroneously sent the warning, disseminated to mobile devices across the state by initially clicking the wrong option during the test, then confirming a subsequent prompt that distributed the mass alert. >> there was a screen that says are you sure you want to do this? thats already in place. now, we had one person, human error, and that was pushed anyway. >> re...

Course, raised. and then when you have human error in a technological system as we did over the weekend, the situation can indeed get out of control. so i think it is a dangerous situation. i think we need to continue to ratchet down the rhetoric on both sides, we need to encourage the south koreans and the north koreans to continue their negotiations, the talks they just have begun and expand them perhaps to some areas that are more closely related to security, and try and get this back to a mo...

Headquarters. plenty of apologies from hawaii tonight after a false ballistic missile alert. the alert shared on television radio and cell phone screening chaos and hysteria on the island for nearly 40 minutes. state officials say it was all caused by human error. someone hit the wrong button during a shift change. the federal trade commissions commission is investigating and state officials are promising to revise the alert system so this never happens again. the voice of college football has...

Kelly: im kelly wright in new york. frayed nerves in hawaii after a false alarm prompted fears of an incoming missile attack. a phone warning warned a million people of an incoming missile attack and to seek shelter. human error was the reason for the alert. officials say it was a mistake. the speaker of the hi house said someone just pushed the wrong button. a spokesman said in a routine internal test that started at 8:05 hawaii time when a shift change went into effect. it involved the emergen...

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