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Hanging for twice as long as it would take for a missile to get from north korea to here to the hawaiian islands is frankly inexcusable in the eyes of that senator at least. he wasnt ready to make the commitment to take that power away from the state government and give it to pacom, u.s. pacific command, that is supposed to alert for the call of the sirens to be sent out. im sure thats one of the issued addressed in the days ahead. >> jacob soboroff thanks so much. kelly is in florida near mar-a...

Norad saying no inbound threat to hawaii. how is this supposed to happen? panic and interest what was going on in hawaii as all of this unfolded. within the pentagon and defense department, how is this supposed to play out? and how quickly could you and others get answered? we heard from the person representing hawaii she was able to get through to authority tieo verify this was not a legitimate threat. how would this play out? >> member of congress, had a little more quick response than i. >> f...

Scare, but theres also outrage. we had a couple senators and representatives of hawaii go on twitter. senator, again, false alarm, he tweeted. what happened today is totally inexcusable. the whole state was terrified. there needs to be tough and quick accountability and a fixed process. and now if you take a look at this full screen, this is directly from the hawaii emergency management agency. this gives you an idea of what the plan is in the event of an actual ballistic missile attack from nor...

Seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. this activated the emergency alert system in hawaii. that is people were watching tv at their homes at 8:07 this morning and an alert went on their television, letting them know that there was an in bound missile coming their way. this is what it was like to see that on your television. >> the u.s. pacific command has detected a missile threat to hawaii. a missile may impact on land or sea within minutes. this is not a drill. >> i mean, incredible, th...

Has been fired since september 15th. october was the first month this year that no ballistic missile was fired. this was definitely a significant event, and the fact that it was a icbm, remember, north korea has been working on that reentry vehicle of that longer-range missile, find about 4,000 miles and puts guam and hawaii and other places in its trajectory. this missile, we understand, from japanese officials, landed in the water off of japans and the economic exclusion zone. that is about 20...

To lengthy trip, by the way, five-country trip, more than 11 days, longest by an american president in asia, you know, about a quarter century. before heading this way, the president was briefed by leadership from u.s. pacific command in hawaii, joined by his wife first lady melania in that visit at pearl harbor, a solemn occasion indeed and also visiting the memorial, white house chief of staff john kelly, take a look at his picture, his son, you may recall, killed while serving in the marine c...

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And that is trade. much talk about china but keep in mind the u.s. has a trade imbalance with japan as well. $51 billion, through the latest figures in august, the last month available. president is likely trying to hammer out a more favorable environment for u.s. goods and services here in japan as well. earlier this afternoon as you pointed out the president left hawaii for the five-country, 11-day asian trip, the longest for an american president in a quarter century. before coming this way t...