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During the press conference, this was a tweet and a lot of people arent on twitter. they are certainly not sitting there staring at their twitter if they are at the beach. another 15 minutes goes by, and the u.s. military, their pacific command which tracks all of north koreas missile launches is based right there in hawaii said it had not detected a ballistic missile and the earlier message was in error and the state of hawaii will send out a correction message as soon as possible. but it took ...

You know, mentioned the process. look at this. this is from hawaiis emergency management agency. this is what the process is if there were to be a ballistic missile attack. the u.s. pacific command which is based in hawaii, sends a message to the state. the state then warns its citizens. you are talking about 20 minutes, from launch in north korea to a missile landing in hawaii. just 20 minutes. and in that time, in the first ten minutes, the warnings are sent and then citizens have just 10 minu...

Number, thousands of troops on hawaii, which is largest geography region of the globe as the u.s. divides the globe, stretches all the way to india, and includes this missile threat of north korea. so theyve been aware of this of how far could the north koreans launch a missile. and thats the text we keep hearing about, they keep farther and farther until they reach the intercontinental ballistic missile to reach the continental mainland. so hawaii has been prepared in getting ready for potentia...

Someone pushed a button. we are trying to turn around some footage we were there yesterday. it was not the phone call that would come in from u.s. pacific command alert the pooh em in this room to not only a put out the push alert but sound the siren, put out television alerts, and interrupt television programming and interrupt all am f.m. radio. the reason that this system didnt go off in the way that its in tended to in the way that people on hawaii have been drilling last two months is becaus...

8:05, 15 minutes later this message indicating no missile threat to hawaii. we didnt get someone from u.s. pacific command 30 minutes after that initial push alert. we heard from a spoerks person saying that earlier message was sent in error. lucky to have my jack object my colleague on waikiki beach. i know you want to get into here to talk about how this went down and what youve heard since, jack object. >> jay object. >> let me pick up where courtney left off. if they detect, the way that haw...

Has happened since, not the lease of which most importantly being u.s. pacific command sent out this statement, sent out in error. will send out a correction as soon as possible. >> ill ask you this, is it your in t interpretation of u.s. pacific it was the error of u.s. pacific command sent this message out in error? >> no, i think this is from hawaii emergency manage testament system. and people have been tweeting out notices they saw it on television and radio. it wasnt just from them. and th...

This was human error, saying someone pressed the wrong button in hawaii. second thing that our colleagues at the pentagon reporting, not planning to release a statement. u.s. pacific command is taking all queries on department of defense. and we heard this was in fact a small alarm. much more to come here on msnbc. , shooting pain in my feet. i hear you, sam. cedric, i couldnt sleep at night because of my diabetic nerve pain. i hear you, claire, because my dad struggled with this pain. folks, do...

Error. state of hawaii will send out a correction message as soon as possible. ww would that be a message attributed to u.s. command? >> it sure sounds like it that the pacific command was taking responsibility for having sent out an erroneous message this the first place. one would think the controls would be that couldnt happen without someone checking on it first opinion theres supposed to be several levels of message before it can be sent out. >> my friend sandra phoning in about this, she s...

They would be informed, u.s. military and u.s. pacific command would inform hawaii civil authorities they need to alert residents to take measures necessary, seek shelter, but in this case there is no cages, aga no indication, that the military did that. we are hearing more and more from hawaii military authorities this is human error. i suspect we will learn more about safeguards that are in place that didnt work in this case. there is already representative donovan on the hill who is the chair...

North korea were to miss interpret a tweet or something that the president said, now we are talking about something more tangible than that. i want to ask you about the reaction to the reaction from everyone that weve spoken to, i dont think there it was a clear sense of what should happen or what folks should do, that includes what the congresswoman second district in hawaii, g gabbard, she sent out a tweet. what does that reaction say to you how this all unfolded about preparedness for a real ...