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He says he was 100 percent sure that the threat was real when he made the faithful decision to push the button is admissible and not the drop-down button that said test. he said he feels really awful about it. >> i just feel bad. what if in the public group. the panic. >> he said he did not hear the word exercise that was repeated three times before the on-duty call.only the part that this is not a drill. he has been fired from the job and says he has gotten death threats and his lawyer and he h...

Branches gather together under one roof? at inauguration, a funeral. otherwise, they dont. and i think its good. when the camera pans tonight, you see the president, vice president, speaker, generals, supreme court. its pretty cool and impressive. >> theres always one cabinet member whos missing. and that person is the designated survivor, just in case something happens in that chamber. >> that was me a couple of times. i began to feel picked on. and i said, where are we going? they said, we can...

I would point out 18 senate democrats voted for the last continuing resolution in december and they came under some heat from the left. i think i would be surprised if they get back to 18 again. i would also be surprised if the democrats actually push the button on a shutdown fight at this stage. >> they might not need democrats in the house. last time, they got enough republicans. >> this is all in the senate with the filibuster. >> if they are going to get it through in the house, theres going...

Families to race into world war ii-era bunkers. tourists to gather in hotel basements. >> i had my mom on speakerphone, on the mainland, and i was calling and saying good-bye, you know, to my family. >> reporter: all starting during a shift change when officials tell abc news an employee mistakenly clicked "missile alert" instead of the test option. 8:07 saturday morning, the warning -- >> this is not a drill. >> reporter: in just three minutes, at 8:10, the command center knows its a false alar...

Two gentlemen but somebody in that position that double clicked the system instead of testing it. they actually activated it. it sent just sheer panic throughout the hawaiian islands. not just here on oahu but through the entire state. the reason we knew, the producers here with me, knew that it wasnt, in fact, actually happening, was the sirens didnt go off. there are 394 sirens that are supposed to be tripped. thats what we were told, they werent tripped. everybody got this text message that l...

Initiation. thats what -- there is -- again, it is a human error. there is a screen that says are you sure you want to do this? okay. thats already in place. one person, human error, and that was pushed anyway. >> so they not only triggered the alert, they also pressed yes? >> yes. >> there was a two step process and they pressed yes in both situations. by having redundancy, two people, 12 to 13 minutes to alert the public, how much delay -- >> there would be no delay in the case. the process wo...

It did not get to the point where hawaii emergency management decided they needed to sound the sirens. there are 394 sirens reactivated cold war sirens that are normally used for hurricanes, for tsunamis here. and they have a new siren that they brought back that they used during the cold war that has a distinct noise that would sound in the event of an inbound ballistic missile from north korea or otherwise. they obviously did not determine in this small room that we were in at the civil defens...

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...

Public. >> how long have you been doing this ballistic missile checklist? >> started when about we did the first silent test. november 1st. >> three time as day? >> three times a day but not mandated. a routine test for the new shifts coming on. weve been doing this since about november, with no problems until today. >> and could you explain again how this could possibly happen with one person and anyone can say yes and now taking the action to have two people and both get the same -- do you sti...