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We have to initiate a manual process and now was why it took a while to notify everyone. the 38th minute interval is really the interval we had to manually go through the process to provide notification on the smartphones and cell phones. arthel: joining me now is tyler cowen with every security intelligence expert. also a former cyberdeputy chief intelligence officer with the defense intelligence agency. good to have you here with us to talk about what was a scary mess they are. we know now tha...

Also pinging farther away. the kidnappers and quinn might have been on the move. sheriffs detective howard cole. was center in the pursuit. >> it was believed that quinn grays cell phone was being tracked to an area west of orlando. >> but something had gone wrong. before tracing the call, investigators had to get a judges approval. and in the rush to fill out the proper paperwork, someone made a small, but critical error. >> when they actually went to get the order signed by a judge, what was t...

I hiawaii hawahawahawahawahawaha send out that correction message statewide for 38 minutes. >> this should not have happened. >> reporter: the states governor says this false alarm was a result of human error. >> it was a procedure that occurs at the change of shift where they go through to make sure that the system is working and an employee pushed the wrong button. >> reporter: but tonight many are asking why did it take so long for a correction to go out? >> anything like this happens, the ca...

System in place here based on the rising tensions between president trump and kim jong-un, the leader of north korea. they put the risk of an actual ballistic missile attack pretty low, frankly, below hurricanes and tsunamis, things they prepare for here, but that did not stop what state officials are calling a very critical human error from sending out a very real alert that said this is not a drill. theres an incoming ballistic missile detected and scaring a lot of people here. officials are n...

Im dara brown with the top stories. hawaii officials are promising action after an alert was sent to residents. it told people to shelter in place and said this is not a drill. they said it was human error. the death toll has gone up to 19 in the california mudslides. a woman was found saturday. the body of her 12-year-old sister was found earlier. the body of the missing has gone down to five. now back to "dateline." welcome back to "dateline." im craig mel sin. in the case of the murdered ...

Thats when war could occur. i am deeply, deeply sorry for the panic that the people of hawaii felt yesterday. but im also just as deeply concerned about the fact that we are in a context and a climate in which error, human error, could lead to the unthinkable. >> all right, congressman denny heck, always good to speak with you. thank you. thank you. coming up next, rand paul defends president trump. why he thinks its unfair to call the president racist.

Nuclear was imminent. after this emergency alert was mistakenly sent to cell phones statewide. >> i just went to a concrete building. >> i was with my two little girls who are 8 and 10, so kids are crying and nobody really knew what to do. >> reporter: panicked people searching for loved ones, seeking shelter and information. >> it was a great deal of disbelief, like is this really happening? >> reporter: officials later apologized at a news conference, for the 38 minutes it took to rescind the ...

Weapons, and its delivery capability, no matter what we say or do. so public discourse is not going to have the very big impact on the actuality of north korean nuclear development and delivery capability. however, like i said, if youre on the wrong end of a thermonuclear device, it doesnt much matter who the president of the united states is, its not going to be very good for you. >> and colonel, the white house statement pointed out that the false alarm was triggered during a state exercise. b...

Has been tumultuous and he repeatedly calls kim jong-un little rocket man. how do these types of comments contribute to the 38 minutes of chaos in hawaii? >> well, look, i mean it is completely, completely inexcusable what happened in hawaii. theres likely going to be congressional hearings. theres likely going to be investigations. and yes, while the president is right to melanies point that this is really the result of state government officials, the fact that the president of the united state...

>> that is fine, but the adjutant general immediately confirmed that it was a false alarm. once he confirmed that it was a false alarm, in the age of social media, that needed to be tweeted out within 30 seconds. once we confirmed with paycom, norad, our missile defense agency that this was not happening, everybody needed to be informed. and the human error at the front end is process problem and that needs to be addressed. the personnel accountability always needs to be addressed. but the fact ...