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Cnns sara sidner is in honolulu and our security analyst bob bear. sarah, you just talked to hawaiis top emergency officials. whats their account of what happened? >> reporter: very simply there was a shift change and during that shift change they do test quite often. this is not an unusual thing to do the test but the test is normally done within the emergency management agency. it does not go out to the public. one of the workers there pulled up the wrong template, clicked on that template, th...

See you this morning. >> have a great monday. >> you two. 38 minutes past the hour. hawaii the emergency management officer who sent a false alarm about an inbound missile has been reassigned. the mishap that sent hawaiians scrambling for cover came during a routine drill following a shift change. an officer in the emergency operations center mistakenly picked the wrong message template, one for sending a warning to the public, not just internally. then the officer clicked okay to confirm that...

Hawaii, but really weve got to get to the underlying issue here of why are the people of hawaii and this country facing a nuclear threat coming from north korea today and what is this president doing urgently to eliminate that threat? >> officials say it took so long to cancel the false alarm because they had no template for that. an omission thats now been fixed. a manager on duty will also have to confirm any future alerts. president trump calls it a state issue. the white house says he was br...

Awards last week and now theyre coming up this week instead and so i think it goes back to the administration fighting the press as much as they can on this, so. >> right. even though its the conservative editorial pages of the "the wall street journal." >> yeah, yeah. >> it shows theyre taking aim at the mainstream press. >> um-hum. >> its the press at large. thank you so much. well talk to you in such a few more minutes. >> sounds good, thank you. in hawaii, the emergency management officer ...

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...

>> no, this wasnt a drill. it was a huge mistake. the employee who apparently pushed the wrong button has been disciplined and reassigned. so how did it happen? and what are officials doing to make sure it doesnt happen again. sara sidner is in honolulu with the latest. fill us in. >> reporter: ana, lots of things have been done now by emergency managers to keep this from ever happening again. one, there will have to be double confirmation when any kind of drill or message is sent out. two, i wa...

>> were going to get now involved with them. i love they took responsibility. they took total responsibility but were going to get involved, their attitude and what they want to do, its terrific. they took responsibility and made a mistake. >> with me now sarah sidner, the question, how on earth did this happen? >> reporter: you know, we talked to the head of the emergency management agency who said, look, there are drills that are done on a daily basis really, usually that information and those...

Contingencies now in place where there has to be two people to verify even if its a test within the emergency agency and they have something that they added to this template which is a false alarm. that didnt exist before this which is why they say it took 30 something minutes for them to get a new message in place to send that out to the public telling them that this was a false alarm, that there was no inbound missile. yes, people here or frustrated, theyre angry, partly because they were terr...

State representative matt low prestys family was enjoying a relaxed saturday morning and suddenly worrying about nuclear annihilation. the family gathered in a bathroom and began praying. >> we all just got down, got in the tub, waiting for a flash and i was going to cover the kids with my body. >> reporter: what are your children saying to you? >> my 8-year-old is praying, she stopped and looked at me and said, daddy, are we at war? and i had to say, yes, and she just looked at me and said why?...

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...