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Im sure is terrifying to the million plus people here in the honolulu area. did you get one here? heres the alert. nbc naus producer shown me the alert. ballistic missile inbound to hawaii. seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. this is the key words. they have been drilling for this last of two months they have been launching the sirens. they are different from the hurricanes siren. so to get this, and let me see if i can show you on the screen here. >> we have it up there on the right. >...

Today. north korean threats. it was a huge conference here on the island just yesterday. and at the time that i learned about this, looking at the newspaper to see this photo here of admiral head of pacific command, keynote speaker at a luncheon yesterday with the hawaiian chamber of conference basically talking to people what to do on the island in case something like this happened. >> stand by, if you would, colleague in hawaii doing reporting on how hawaii could react if in fact a missile wer...

Inside and outside the government that look at 2017 saw a great deal of progress and some disturbing surprising progress on the northe korean side. >> thanks very much. i want to bring in tulsi gabbard joins me from the state f hawaii. we looked to her twitter account. she tweeted, hawaii, this is no incoming missile. congress gabbard, let me get a sense how it unfolded? how did you first hear of that? did you get the alert? and what did you do upon getting it? >> aloha. im here in washington. s...

Who is alive and who that might be. just to be very clear, there was a false alarm. no inbound ballistic missile. but they have this in place. and that begins with push alerts on phones. interruptions on television. on their cell phones. on amfm radio and sounds like that did happen. the question is what happened between the alert coming out, whether pacific command in hawaii or elsewhere, and the decision to not sound those 394 sirens throughout the state of hawaii on all the different islands ...

Out, because they are the ones, hawaii civil defense is the one who puts out these alerts, to find out what was going on. this was just minutes after the alert went out. i was immediately told that the alert was sent out mistakenly. it was an inadvertent alert message. and that there was no ballistic missile heading to hawaii. so i immediately got on twitter, got on the phone, started getting the message out as quickly as possible to the people in hawaii who literally were going through this tho...

Thank you for joining us here on msnbc. >> youre welcome. >> i want to recap for those just joining us. following frightening moments for the people of hawaii after an alert warned of an incoming ballistic missile. that alert said this, quote, this is not a drill. what stands out there for the message, ballistic missile inbound to hawaii. seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. joining us now vacationing in hawaii. separated from her family on the north shore. just curious what this reactio...

Of what my phone looked like when i woke up. and i woke up to that alert. and then to subsequent texts from my family saying, shelter. i love you. what is happening? these kinds of things. and so and i have nine missed calls. so give you perspective im in honolulu in a town that overlooks the ocean and all of way kiki and i looked out the window and couldnt see anything happening. and my dad called me they are on the north shore about an hour away and they are the ones lived that fear of thinkin...

Witness encounter to everything going on. that is a wrap. david gura, not much news. ill hand it off to you. thank you very much. we are talking about this alert that was sent about an hour ago. joining me about now hans nichols. what do we know about how this happened, hans? >> well, we know pacific command, david, sends something out within an hour of their being an initial report of a launch. when there is indeed a launch from north korea, tends to be within that hour range, sometimes a lit...

Three prong strategy out here which is shelter, stay there, and then lister for whats next, stay tuned. and thankfully this was a false alarm. >> valuable perspective. you were at civil defense yesterday. thats what is supposed to happen. what is the process supposed to play out like? i was shocked when i first saw word of this it would begin with a push alert. what is supposed to happen jake who is supposed to make that call? you mention that siren system thats throughout the islands of hawaii....

So well dig into that further. what we learned is this is a mistake. >> david, if i could jump in. this was not an exercise. we were there yesterday. they were very clear to us about the exercise and what those exercises look like. if that is the statement coming from the white house. what i learned within tthis was mistake. this was not an exercise whatsoever. those people are trained only in that room only to push that button when they get a call from u.s. pacific command. from what i heard fr...