Page 5 - Us Pacific Command News Today

Ask your health care provider if youre tresiba® ready. covered by most insurance and medicare plans. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ a lot of questions after an erroneous alert for people in hawaii warning them to take cover because of an imminent missile strike. >> the u.s. pacific command has detected a missile threat to hawaii. a missile may impact on land and sea within minutes. >> you can imagine what came next. chaos ensued after that went out. people scrambled to find cover in what they though...

Pacific command, a military organization that is actually headquartered in hawaii. and then they notify the emergency management association that starts the process of notification. that is not the question youre asking. youre asking what happens when all of that does occur? truthfully, not a whole lot. there isnt a whole lot of shelters that would prevent a massive disaster, an injury for the people who live on the island or anywhere else where a nuclear missile is headed. >> hawaii emergency m...

Worked. >> it was pacific command that put out an official notification that it was not true. >> they in fact checked em a&e ma sent it out. they have to be in this case and tracking the targets and determining the defense. the ema actually alerts the civilians and the population. >> we talked a lot yesterday. lets talk about this. homeland security chief christian nealson called the warning an unfortunate mistake. the situation could turn into a boy who cried wolf and force that people are not ...

Military commander and the government officials in the area where they detect and where they calculate the missile might be headed. in this case, that would have been pacific command and that was part of what caused the confusion yesterday. neither of those organizations had started the alert system. when the alert system came out over the sirens and texting and television channels, im sure the military commanders on watch looked at each other and said what is going on? they had to confirm or de...

Sent. >> we have coverage on this, from president trumps at florida state, we begin with brian who is following the developing story. >> this began at 807 hawaii time. the ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii, seek immediate shelter, this is not a drill. this was the text message that 1.3 million hawaiian scott this morning. the emergency alert system went out on television and radio. this is what it was like to be in hawaii this morning with the emergency alert system came on while youre ...

Are presumed dead in this accident. chinese media saying a large amount of oil from the tanker is no burning as you can see in the surrounding waters. arthel: missile alert set folks into a frenzy in hawaii yesterday with some people seeking shelter in the sewers. heres the timeline. a mosler went out to hundreds of of thousands of cell phones around 8:07 local time. 13 minutes later, the ema tweeted there was no missile threat. u.s. pacific command reiterating around 8:35 but it would take 40 m...

Ballistic missile to hawaii. that alert triggered 38 minutes of panic and confusion that im sure felt like days before it was eventually corrected. now federal and state officials are launching their own investigations into what exactly went wrong there. joining me now from honolulu is nbcs jacob soboroff. what are you learning from this? >> reporter: its fascinating. to mention the 38 minutes, thats the amount of time it would take for an intercontinental ballistic missile to get from north kor...

Need to be held accountable, we got an inside look because were on assignment here. we happened to be here yesterday when this all took place. were on assignment looking at the potential implications of a nuclear attack on korea. the footage youre looking at is our exclusive footage inside the bunker where the alert was sent from. we happened to be there with the hawaii emergency management agency just a day before this happened. there are systems operators in the room that are responsible for p...

The wake of the latest controversial marks. can politicians come together to make a deal? >> fake news, president trump continues to attack the news media in a barrage of tweets. the president claims he was misquoted about his relationship with kim jong un. the social media storm in the aftermath of a false alarm in highway that sent people running for cover. >> the u.s. pacific command has detected a missile threat to hawaii. a missile may impact on land or sea in minutes. this is not a dral. w...

Questions about whether president trump will face any political consequences from it. and we begin with new details out of hawaii, following that false missile alert. the ftc now opening an investigation into the mistaken warning, which led terrified residents and tourists to think the end was imminent. they got their push alerts on their cell, and for the first time this morning, were hearing the audio recording played on television, and radio. >> the u.s. pacific command has detected a missi...