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You know, and getting -- and harm ensuing. second thing is we also need assurances that there wasnt some sort of foul play going on and we dont know. so were super careful in this regard. but i will say that the text, the language in the text, should have never been written. and the last line, right, this is not a drill, is the last line of the attack on pearl harbor, the alert that went out which of course was not a drill, which people from hawaii are well aware of. so that -- so i want to see ...

When this false alarm was sent out. he typically travels with a large security presence. there is lis almost always a military aide with him. the white house clearly for years has been prepared for any kind of military action that may take place while the president is traveling. he is typically not far from that security package including the nuclear football with security measures in place, nuclear codes in place should an emergency occur. but simply at this moment were not getting word from th...

Immediate shelter in a building. remain indoors well away from windows, if you are driving, pull safely to the side of the road and seek shelter in a building or lay on the floor. we will announce when the threat has ended. this is not a drill. take immediate action measures, repeat, the u.s. pacific command has detected a missile threat. >> can you imagine hearing this? this is during the florida and ole miss college basketball game. it was on a local tv station in hawaii. it was interrupted by...

A journalist from the washington examiner. first of all, what phil just said, its a state worker, i mean should state workers, with all due respect to them, should they actually have responsibility for something as serious as this? i mean they run the dmv. you are asking someone who has these type of responsibilities to have such a major impact in world affairs? >> well, right, happy weekend. and i think that this probably is a surprise to -- surprise to me actually that were hearing that state ...

Foreign relations committee. good to see you tonight. as we have been saying, so shocking. it really is frightening and spread panic and is pretty astounding. is this the best way to warn people about a possible incoming missile? i mean, what pacific command detects, norad and then they have to tell a state agency? >> i grew up in california. we have a similar warning system for earthquakes and the like. at the end of the day, you have to get the message out to the broadest group of people as po...

Officials are saying is the slow response. the initial alert went out as you mentioned at 8:07, eric, but then it took another 13 minutes for hawaiis emergency management agency to tweet out, quote, no missile threat to hawaii. but as you mentioned, it took nearly 40 minutes for that full alert to go out. in fact, the u.s. pacific command, which is in charge of all military forces in the pacific, and it monitors north korean missile launches, did not detect any launch, they issued a statement at...

Reenter the earths atmosphere. last year the head of the pacific command told congress hes weighing a decision to bring interceptor missiles to hawaii. right now if north korea were to launch any kind of missile and it was deemed a threat to hawaii or the united states, there are two locations where there are interceptor missiles, alaska, and an air force base in california. there was a successful missile test last year. only 44 interceptor missiles currently on-line right now to destroy north k...

Arthel: bryan llenas is live from our new york city newsroom with more on this. >> for the better part of half hour there are some folks in hawaii that thought they were going to die in a missile attack. i mean that is literally what were talking about here. that alert came out at 8:07 hawaii time. this alert reading quote, ballistic missile threat in bound to hawaii. seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. the emergency alert system also went out on television and radio, and we have video ...

Given some notice of how this investigation goes forward and what the outcome of it is. >> even a redundant system. it sounds amazing, it was a shift change and apparently did push the wrong button, say officials, you think you would have like -- you know, you go on the computer you want to change something, it says are you sure you want to do this? theres no break -- i mean theres no extra step there. >> right, or maybe the button is somewhere where its isolated from other buttons, something li...

Talking i was following whats going on in twitter, this was my phone when i woke up just now explaining what they saw and that was ballistic missile threat, im in honolulu, hawaii and my family in north shore, they were hiding in the garage. my mom and sister were crying. it was a false alarm but bolting -- im sorry, i misread that, betting a lot of people are shaken and u.s. pacific command tweeted as well. u.s. pacific command has detect nod ballistic missile threat to #hawaii, alert message w...