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Bp is taking safety to new heights. using drones and robots offshore so engineers can stop potential problems before they start. because safety is never being satisfied and always working to be better. >> good morning and welcome back, look at the video, a father lowering his child in manhole after state of hawaii was bracing for ballistic missile attack, many images showing the widespread panic that grip it is island for 38 minutes. officials confirmed it was an error, but how does something li...

Again. >> it was a procedure that occurs at the change of shift where they go through to make sure the system is working, and an employee pushed the wrong button. >> nbcs jacob was in hawaii, in the command center where the mistake took place only hours before that false alert. you join me now from honolulu. you have the story. you were there. you saw the people. obviously a lot of questions to be answered. tell us about being in that command center and how they were preparing for what then went...

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...

>> it was a procedure that occurs at the change of shift when they go through to make sure that the system is working and an employee pushed the wrong button. >> that push of a wrong button led to a mass panic across the state of hawaii for 40 minutes, which is a lifetime when you are fearing the worst. the major misstep led to questions about preparedness among residents and the government and improvement to the missile alert system. jacob soberoff was on assignment in hawaii. how do you get as...

Bathtubs and basements waiting for a ballistic missile strike that never came. >> we we got the alarm, we were terrified. we were on the 36th floor of our hotel. and we didnt know what to do. >> we kept looking out the window in case we saw something. >> people started staring around trying to get into bathrooms. i have two little girls, 8 and 10. people were crying. we didnt know what to do. >> i sent a message to my grand kids at home. it made me realize, my god, i could have never seen them a...

The honolulu star advertiser calling out with the headline oopz, wrong button. lets discuss all of this with hawaii state representative. first off, yesterday -- thank you for joining us. good to see you in person. yesterday was all on the telephone when we spoke. i know you are looking for answers as many people are wanding to know how this possibly could have happened. you gave yesterday a very moving and very personal account of what you and your family were going through. how are you today? ...

Paddle in and do best we could. >> some people put their children in storm drains hoping they would be safer there. and other people tried to find anywhere that was safe or safer from the missiles. thankfully it was a false alarm. the governor says one person a staffer at the emergency management center simply pushed the wrong button. president trump in florida this weekend, fully briefed on the incident in hawaii. he spoke with the u.s. national security advisor and his white house chief of sta...

Dangerous. we are looking people didnt die yesterday. there were people who acted a little panicked more than they should have, but were lucky nobody was injured and credit to the people of hawaii who largely kept their cool and endured and are very resilient. >> the governor i believe said simply a matter of a person hitting the wrong button. have you learned more details other than that? >> i havent heard more details on that. but i think we all in this information know there are a lot of area...

Respond to in an emergency. >> how long did it take before you personally knew there wasnt a missile coming? >> certainly i had made several phone calls after getting the initial alert to find out what was actually happening. it took me a couple of minutes, maybe five minutes or so before i had determined that it was a false alarm. >> meantime everybody else was waiting for 38 minutes before that correction was issued. i know in your previous press question-and-answer sessions youve talked about...

People were calling family members telling them they thought it was the last time they would be speaking to one another. a state representative said he gathered his family in the bathroom and had to explain to his daughter when she asked him if we were at war, that, yes, indeed we were and he wanted them to survive. then came the message that this was a false alarm. that took 38 minutes, many people waiting that long to find out that indeed there was no inbound missile and they were safe. emerge...