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Shoot no have happ should not have happened. >> and can you explain, is it as simple as pressing a button or is it going through -- >> there is a check list that is in place. so that should have been followed. and im going to find out why it wasnt or what happened. again, let me assure you that i will look through this, investigate, and this will not happen again. >> was this a failure to plan in the first place before the program ever went into place, not to have a better safeguard? >> no, i th...

Security analyst. juliet, weve learned a couple things from the governor. one, it appears to be human error and also that the emergency broadcast system was in fact triggered by this. >> yeah, i hadnt heard that yet and were certainly not seeing it anywhere else that that would be consistent with what was likely happening. not surprising, it is happening on a saturday morning because when you do these drills, they generally dont want to be when something else is happening. what we call the rever...

Governor, he said, look, this was obviously human error and there was a shift change, one of the employees pushed the button. that was a mistake, we are looking into trying to figure out how that mistake was made. but, a mistake none ttheless we hope it is not making again. hawaii before that in many months before that have started looking into trying to upgrade and deal with the fact that they wanted to make sure their emergency systems were up and run running and people knew what the do. there...

They blew it here. it is totally unacceptable. i listened in on that press conference. and they dont quite understand how bad this was to the extent that one person was in a position to make a human error and send more than a million and a half people into a tail spin and it took 38 minutes to correct, there is just no excuse for that. im a pretty even keeled guy, but im quite angry. >> and we heard from vern miyagi, administrator of the hawaii emergency agency in that news conference, and he do...

Irresponsible if the government of hawaii were not taking steps to warn or try to protect its people. unfortunately the wrong message got sent today about that and elise labott is here with us now. and there your perspective watching in unfold, what are you hearing? >> womeell, a lot of concern in washington. the fbi, dhs, fema were all following this very closely. as we said, there was a concern that there could hais could hav hack. obviously the governor trying to allay those fears and saying ...

And the head of our emergency management agency, as well as general joe logan who heads our national guard. so everyone is focused first of all on finding out exactly what happened and yes it was human error and then to make sure that there are fail-safe processes in place so this never happens again. i also had an opportunity to talk with admiral harris. because this kind of alert is to come from northern command. and when he learned of it, he contacted northern command and they have the satell...

Hotels, getting in the bathrooms. and this is just before the second round of talks between south korea and north korea. and the president says he has a very good relationship with kim jong-un, the president off justly really all over the map on his rhetoric about north korea. what does he need to say now following this situation? >> i think he needs to continue to call on china to deal with their subsidiary in a responsible manner and i think he needs to maintain the consistent line that hes do...

Someone pressed literally pressed the wrong button. >> so just to be clear, then the governor seems to be explaining that in was not some kind of hack, this was not -- >> no. >> this was actually a human error of some kind. >> exactly. he said a mistake made during a standard procedure at the changeover of a shift and an employee pushed the wrong button. that is exactly how he put it. >> did the governor say people may have been injured, emergency responders had to kick into gear, did he say any...

Missile threat, it was a false alarm based on human error. there is nothing more important to hawaii than professional lizing ali izing and foolproofing this process. what happened is inexcusable. the whole state was terrified. they needs to be tough and quick accountability. and a fix. and as julia was saying, one of the main concerns here is that that language, even if youre going to send out a test, you know, when were watching our tv and we see those emergen emergency -- this is a test of th...

Only certain people can authorize even a drill and only certain people at the console can for overgeneralizing can push that button on. and somewhere along the lines -- there are several messages that you can send. there is probably 8 or 9 different messages to send. somebody scrolled to the wrong message and pressed send. >> there is an investigation under way and they will look at was it a hack. do you see an indication of a hack? >> i doubt that this is a hack. this sounds too many like human...