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Weapons, and its delivery capability, no matter what we say or do. so public discourse is not going to have the very big impact on the actuality of north korean nuclear development and delivery capability. however, like i said, if youre on the wrong end of a thermonuclear device, it doesnt much matter who the president of the united states is, its not going to be very good for you. >> and colonel, the white house statement pointed out that the false alarm was triggered during a state exercise. b...

In other words, you press the button and it says are you sure you want to send this alert out. and you press it again. every system of communication in the military and in homeland security would have that. maybe someone wasnt paying attention or not knew. that is the sfifirst thing. second thing that went out, it has to come back through the same communication channels because the people who received it are the ones who will be following it. >> all right, let me stop you there for a minute beca...

Governor, he said, look, this was obviously human error and there was a shift change, one of the employees pushed the button. that was a mistake, we are looking into trying to figure out how that mistake was made. but, a mistake none ttheless we hope it is not making again. hawaii before that in many months before that have started looking into trying to upgrade and deal with the fact that they wanted to make sure their emergency systems were up and run running and people knew what the do. there...

People acted upon that message because it said this is not a drill. you were just listening to one account. this was repeated over and over across the island for 38 agonizing minutes, people were not given an official response to say this was done in error. sara sidner has been speaking to the governor of hawaii. what did you get? >> so the question to him was how did this happen and that is what everybody wants to know. he always did mention that not only was a text sent out, but there were tho...

Families are putting their kids into storm drains, this just a glimpse now of how frightened people in hawaii were, how they reacted to this urgent news about this inbound missile that again thankfully turned out to be false. i want to bring in senator maisy hirono of hawaii. you said officials need to get to the bottom of what happened. make sure it never happens again. youre joining us on the phone. the governor has said a wrong button was pushed during a shift change. thats what triggered all...

Listen to evacuation orders because the one before it was wrong. you have to have people have confidence in the system. and i just -- its in-ex-flickable that we have not seen someone from emergency management come out and even if just what happenhappened just t from the media. >> we heard the governor tell sara sidner say wrong button bush pushed during shift change. does that make sense to you? >> it does not make sense to me, but im also on cnn right now so i dont want to sort of have -- i fo...

Another text message about 30 minutes later saying that was a false alarm. we want to bring your attention to a 6 pm eastern news conference that will be happening from officials in hawaii. they will come to microphones and discuss what happened. as we wait for that, lets talk about what happened today with retired u.s. army lieutenant, a former green beret commander and a fox news contributor. thank you for being here today and again thank you for your service. >> thank you. what an amazing day...

It says emergency alert, ballistic missile threat in bound to hawaii. seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. it took emergency officials nearly 40 minutes to send the correct message correcting that. now, theyre saying an employee at the emergency management office pushed the wrong button during a shift change to send that false alarm. the white house has been briefed on all this, is monitoring the developments. officials scheduled to hold a news conference half hour from now at 6:00 p.m. ...

Given some notice of how this investigation goes forward and what the outcome of it is. >> even a redundant system. it sounds amazing, it was a shift change and apparently did push the wrong button, say officials, you think you would have like -- you know, you go on the computer you want to change something, it says are you sure you want to do this? theres no break -- i mean theres no extra step there. >> right, or maybe the button is somewhere where its isolated from other buttons, something li...

Shelters. >> you bet there will be a lot of discussion actors. false alarms, there will be a lot of discussion about that because there is one angry congresswoman out there who is making a beeline to washington. you can be sure she will be pushing for some action on this so there is more of a pro action and it is really kind of bizarre. just a shift change and in that, one quick moment, someone pushed the wrong button. yet, look at how long it took to warn everyone that this was a false alarm. >...