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This is really a bad accident and perhaps the worst you could even imagine, scaring everybody in hawaii into believing that perhaps they only had minutes left to live. is being blamed on a state worker who accidentally flipped the switch her touched a button during shift change. clearly that is being looked into. >> as we have seen it came from hawaii with the governor and emergency management that only are they investigating an offer more training, the fcc is also investigating it. >> the feder...

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 ...

Particularly those who have been rated as the best performers have had the highest raises by far in recent state history, in fact, ever in state history. i think we have a fairer system now, state workers praise them all the time. i think the ones i encounter are rightly proud of the job they are doing. as i mentioned, their fellow citizens appreciate them here in a way that maybe is not the case elsewhere. >> chris: but what about the figure i just gave you, indiana ranking 46 out of 50 states ...

Particularly those who have been rated as the best performers have had the highest raises by far in recent state history, in fact, ever in state history. i think we have a fairer system now, state workers praise them all the time. i think the ones i encounter are rightly proud of the job they are doing. as i mentioned, their fellow citizens appreciate them here in a way that maybe is not the case elsewhere. >> chris: but what about the figure i just gave you, indiana ranking 46 out of 50 states ...

Disagreement, chris. there, it was a matter of trying to bring more jobs to this state. indiana has been winning two-thirds of the time with we get a shot at new jobs. we have been rated as one of the bestions climates in the country by everyone now. but, there was a very large percentage of the time, maybe a third of the opportunities we didnt get a shot at because the businesses -- for their own reasons -- insisted on this freedom. two very separate questions as we saw them. we are not going a...

Particularly those who have been rated as the best performers have had the highest raises by far in recent state history, in fact, ever in state history. i think we have a fairer system now, state workers praise them all the time. i think the ones i encounter are rightly proud of the job they are doing. as i mentioned, their fellow citizens appreciate them here in a way that maybe is not the case elsewhere. >> chris: but what about the figure i just gave you, indiana ranking 46 out of 50 states ...

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Have collective bargaining. the border state 12 miles from my home, indiana, their governor eliminated collective bargaining and you still have state workers going to their job, doing a good job and people lining up to fill those vacancies without collective bargaining. if thats the problem, why is it we are able to get good workers in other states. by the way the federal government whose average salary is considerably higher than the average state worker, why is it that good workers still go th...