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Was false until about 38 minutes after the false alarm. that of course prolonging the emotion and the panic. hawaiian officials say human error caused this false alarm. a worker during a shift change actually pushed the wrong button. the white house saying that this was a state-controlled exercise, meaning it wasnt run by the federal authorities. hawaiian congresswoman tulsi gabbard has confirmed on twitter that a missile was not heading to hawaii and honolulus mayor also tweeting quote the ball...

Thank you. the pentagon said it had nothing to do with that heart-stopping alert. tonight its raising questions about whroarnt state governments, not the federal government or the u.s. military should have jurisdiction to warn the public in these situations. alison barber in washington with more on that. good morning. >> hi, you just heard from will there that this is being blamed on human error. hawaiian officials are already making changes. lawmakers here in d.c. say quite simply this cannot...

Happened because a state worker hit the wrong computer button. we get more on it all from malika lincoln in honolulu. >> what happened today was totally unacceptable and many in our community was deeply affected by this and im sorry for that pain and confusion that anyone might have experienced. >> reporter: a somber apology from the governor as state officials admitted human error was to blame for the false ballistic missile threat alert and the nearly 40 minutes it took for a correction to be ...

Hawaii was not furthputting any out, they immediately said this is a false alarm. again, were still waiting for the state of hawaii to put out their message. cnn had gabbert on the air, she was talking about what she learned. the other senator, state sena r senator, also put out that it was human error. and then we started to hear from other officials. 38 minutes it took the state of hawaii to put out that false alarm. and look, that -- when you talk to people that are in charge of these kind of...

Cell phone. as emergency managers try and figure out how to make sure this never happens again, they are apologizing saying this is human error but it did create quite a bit of emotion here in hawaii. victor, christi? >> sara, thank you so much. cnn military analyst lieutenant general marc hertling is here with us. we appreciate you being here with us. this is from hawaii emergency management. what the protocol was in the pre-1980s and what it is now. you got no federal refunding and no relocati...

Their last conversation and we are seeing that across social media as well. people talking about their last conversations they thought they were having with their family members after they got this message. all in all, though, we have heard from emergency management officials and the governor himself. i spoke to them on the phone. they told me that this was human error. she apologized for it. they said it will not happen again. they are looking at exactly how it happened, but they said what even...

Governor has confirmed this was a human error and it was a human error at thend has of the state government of civil defense. >> senator, were you able to hear that question? senator schatz can you hear me? the senator schatz are you still with us? >> it sounds like we lost the senator. but i guess the point id like to make, richard, is that this is a state agency that sent out this alert. it didnt come from the u.s. military where were going to turn around some exclusive footage from within the...

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At the pen begtagon for years t human error can caused a calamity. >> sure, one of the things you try to do is mitigate the kind of human error that goes into this process, analysis and no notification as much as possible. you try to remove human error, this does show that there is still that possibility for people to miscalculate. what bothers me a little bit is this idea of pushing the wrong button. i am hope thing that the govern was trying to simplify and i am hoping this system is not relyi...

Drill. it took 38 minutes for some people to get the all clear. the message, a human error false alarm, and it comes weeks after hawaii reinstated a cold war era missile alert system in the event of an attack by north korea following kim jong-uns repeated tests. in hawaii tonight the governor saying an employee at shift change is to blame, but there are so many questions still, and abcs stephanie ramos starts us off from the pentagon. >> reporter: hawaiians fleeing and waking up this morning to ...