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Detail on the chain of command and how quickly leaders on both sides of a standoff have the make decisions. there are serious new warning tonight from nuclear experts with all of the missile testing going on, all of the rhetoric flying back and forth we could be closer to a nuclear strike than we believe. for hundreds of thousands of people in hawaii a gut-wrenching 38 minutes. >> the u.s. pacific command has detected a missile threat to hawaii. a missile may impact on land or sea within minutes...

Chinchilla update -- got that chinchilla after all. say what up, rocco. ♪ welcome back. an investigation is underway after human error triggered a terrifying false alert throughout the hawaiian islands warning of an imminent nuclear miss attack. cell phones an tv flashed a warning, ballistic missile threat inbound. phone lines reached capacity as callers flooded 911. or tried to reach loved ones. the warning sirens never sounded and within minutes the u.s. pacific command was able to confirm...

Ominous alert across the state. ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii. seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. within minutes, the head of the agency was in contact with the american military leaders in the region. u.s. pacific command confirmed to the agency that there was no missile inbound to the islands. that was at 8:10 a.m. hawaii time. by 8:13 a.m. hawaii time, the state cancelled future delivery of any text messages preventing them from being sent to phones out of coverage area...

False alarm. we are currently investigating. no missile threat to hawaii. trying to spread the message, hawaiis governor retweeted the agency at 8:24 a.m. remember, this started at 8 will:07. tweeting out there is no missile threat. nothing to understand in a tweet like this. 23 minutes after the alarm raised he posted the notice on his facebook page. here is the key moment. 8:45 a.m. hawaii time. emergency management agency finally sent this notice. no missile threat or danger to the state of h...

Here. theres been a lot of talk about the potential for some sort of accidental catastrophe. this alarm did not originate from the u.s. military. so the way that this usually works is if in fact there had been some sort of potential incoming missile, u.s. pacific command would alert the hawaiian civilian authorities and they would send out the push alert to the residents and people on the island to seek shelter. there was never any kind of an indication from the military that then led to this pu...

>> jacob, when you heard that this had happened, this false alarm, and obviously we all got alerted from the network and were all scrambling, i was calling intelligence, what were your immediate reactions? >> i have to say, andrea, totally candidly, i was in the ocean behind me. it was about 8:00 in the morning. we had wrapped up our shoot and were going to be heading home to los angeles later in that day. so we were getting a little leisure time in. when we came on to shore and were told there ...

Incoming from north korea, tice the amount of time it would take for the travel from north korea to hawaii. people were terrified and panic in a place known as paradise. this were to look into the response should an attack actually be initiated by north korea. and we went into that bunker to understand what the systems in place were. they showed us a little bit of that. what is supposed to happen in the event of that, take a look at this. >> this is where the call comes in that notifies us of a ...

>> the u.s. pacific command has detected a missile threat to hawaii. a missile may impact on land or sea within minutes. >> are you imagine? what would you do in that moment? there were people being told that missiles heading towards the islands. how officials are working to prevent another false alarm and how did it even happen? ♪ when heartburn hits... fight back fast with tums smoothies. it starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue... and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. �...

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...