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The reason that happened so prepost trust in the words of the general, this push alert was triggered by a massive human error, if what we are hearing on msnbc that you got in your interviewed david is to be believed. this was not triggered by a call from the u.s. military. it was not palm command headquartered here in hawaii that called the phone in this specific room. that phone was not picked up by civil defense, hawaii emergency management which is what normally would happen faa letter said t...

There is an air gap in pacific command headquarters, over there in command, where they have to analyze the data, then push the button for the local target, saying, disseminating a warning. and that air gap im sure is there. so there was some human error over there in the headquarters this morning. i bet there was an electronic malfunction where somebody in that headquarters thought there was a missiled launched. well find out in the next couple of days. but, again, surprising conclusion i got to...

This was human error, saying someone pressed the wrong button in hawaii. second thing that our colleagues at the pentagon reporting, not planning to release a statement. u.s. pacific command is taking all queries on department of defense. and we heard this was in fact a small alarm. much more to come here on msnbc. , shooting pain in my feet. i hear you, sam. cedric, i couldnt sleep at night because of my diabetic nerve pain. i hear you, claire, because my dad struggled with this pain. folks, do...

>> first of all, i understand the panic and the fear that people felt thinking that a missile strike was coming our way. so the fact that it took too long for everyone to find out that this was a false alarm, that did not help at all. so the focus on the part of the state of hawaii is to make sure that this kind of error which never should have happened, will never happen again. >> what do you hope to happen next? theres been calls that the test system, which was re-implemented within the last t...

And then stay tuned for alerts from that civil defense agency. what happened here was a massive breakdown. a massive human error that was confirmed by the governors office that literally someone in the room where the button to be pressed in the event the pacific command alerts the state of an inbound missile, someone pushed that button accidentally and that went out to like the senator said hundreds of thousands if not over a million people here on the islands of hawaii. a very critical potentia...

They would be informed, u.s. military and u.s. pacific command would inform hawaii civil authorities they need to alert residents to take measures necessary, seek shelter, but in this case there is no cages, aga no indication, that the military did that. we are hearing more and more from hawaii military authorities this is human error. i suspect we will learn more about safeguards that are in place that didnt work in this case. there is already representative donovan on the hill who is the chair...

So as that was unfolding and we first got the alerts that were bringing about a lot of anxiety for those in hawaii and those on the mainland with loved ones there and that sort of -- kind of cyber anxiety spread, we reached out of course to the white house right away trying to find out. now, typically when something is a federally driven issue, they may know about it before we ever have any idea. there was some lag time before we got a response from the white house. in fairness to them theyre tr...

Im going to bring in hawaii democratic senator on the phone right now. you heard what he was telling us. what do you know and do you react to his reporting as well. >> well, this is totally unacceptable. were obviously relieved to know that its a false alarm. im home in honolulu. i was going about my business about to leave for a speaking engagement and my wife and kids were on their way to the dentist and then my phone just started blowing up and then i began to try to figure out what was going...

Potentially replicated by people who are actually responsible for warning of incoming missile launches including at northern command. before anybody says oh, that would never happen all you have to do is think about the cascade of human and technical bliglitc for systems to fail and for there to be mistakes so i dont think that our systems are immune from mistakes and human error. i mean our actual missile warning systems. second, i worry that the north koreans could misinterpret something that ...

Launched to intercept a ballistic missile inbound to the united states. so i want to stress that our military response would not be based on an emergency management alert sent by the state of hawaii. we would not launch intercept ors of a missile based on that. however, david, i think its important that this shows the frug international of tllty of of potential human error. and you know what has a more fragile system, north korea, they will could misinterpret something we were doing and perhaps ...