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News media to joseph stalin. flake plans to call trumps tactics, quote, an assault as unprecedented as it is unwarranted. >> the senators speech reads in part its a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken about joseph stalin to describe his enemies. it bears noting that so fraught with malis is the phrase that even the predecessor forbade its use. the presidents action should be a great source of shame for the senate and republicans. senato...

Price for now. >> when the missile alert went out, people ran for shelter, huddled in basements, concrete buildings, some parents even hustled their kids into storm drains trying to protect them. cnns sarah sidner joins us from honolulu, i know you just spoke with hawaiis top emergency officials, how do they explain exactly what happened? >> reporter: couple of things now, one of the new bits of information is that the person who was responsible for pressing the ut button if you will and sending...

Some parents so scared, they put their kids into the sewer for protection. the government has apologized many times and it seems to have resonated with president trump. >> we hope it wont happen again. part of it is that people are on edge. maybe eventually well solve the problem so they dont have to be so on edge. >> weve learned that the mistake was the result of an employee at the emergency management agency hitting the wrong button during a shift change. the employee has been reassigned whil...

They were nearly 40 minutes of fear from the residence of hawaii. the governor of hawaii has apologized profusely. that is something that has resonated with president trump. >> i love that they took responsibility. they took total responsibility. but their attitude, what they want to do, i think it is terrific. they made a mistake. >> weve learned that mistake was a result of the employee at the emergency management agency hitting the wrong button during a shift change. that employee has been re...

What to do when this was all playing out just after 8:00 a.m. saturday. many thought that the united states and, more specifically, hawaii, was getting a missile attack from north korea. now, the governor has apologized multiple time since. that really seems to have resonated with president trump. >> we hope it wont happen again. people are on edge. hopefully we will solve the problem so they wont have to be so on edge. >> reporter: saturday, so chaotic that some families even tried to put their...

Look at any potential threats to hawaii. they spend their time looking at satellite images and making sure they are there in case there is a phone call that there is an incoming missile. during a shift change they try to test systems within the emergency management agency all the time and they change shifts and this is a routine thing. what happened this time we are told is that a template, the wrong template was pulled up. once the template was pulled up instead of doing a drill within the emer...

There are a lot of questions about the alert sent out yesterday to people in hawaii warning them to take cover because of an imminent missile strike. >> the u.s. pacific command detected a missile strike to hawaii. >> after that false alert went out, people scrambled to find cover in what they thought were the vital moments and it took 38 minutes before a correction alert went out. when and how did all of this happen? it started around 8:05 in a shift change. internal test was initiated and then...

People were calling family members telling them they thought it was the last time they would be speaking to one another. a state representative said he gathered his family in the bathroom and had to explain to his daughter when she asked him if we were at war, that, yes, indeed we were and he wanted them to survive. then came the message that this was a false alarm. that took 38 minutes, many people waiting that long to find out that indeed there was no inbound missile and they were safe. emerge...

Ask your health care provider if youre tresiba® ready. covered by most insurance and medicare plans. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ a lot of questions after an erroneous alert for people in hawaii warning them to take cover because of an imminent missile strike. >> the u.s. pacific command has detected a missile threat to hawaii. a missile may impact on land and sea within minutes. >> you can imagine what came next. chaos ensued after that went out. people scrambled to find cover in what they though...

The incident prompted immediate anger and outrage from state leaders, hawaii senator brian schatz calling it an abomination. the governor of hawaii saying the false alarm was totally unacceptable. officials blame human error for the mistake, saying an employee pressed the wrong button during a shift change. the frightening false alarm adds to the stress hawaiians are already feeling over the escalated nuclear tensions between the u.s. and north korea. i want to get straight to democratic congres...