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People thought they were about to die. >> i sent a message to my grand kids at home. it made me realize i could have never seen them again. >> i want to stick around to see if we are going to get blown up so i said let me call my wife and tell her i love her. >> 38 minutes would pass before the state sent out an official correction with confirmation that this was a mistake, no missile was coming, nobody was in danger. with us our global affairs analyst. emergency officials are blaming this on on...

The incident prompted immediate anger and outrage from state leaders, hawaii senator brian schatz calling it an abomination. the governor of hawaii saying the false alarm was totally unacceptable. officials blame human error for the mistake, saying an employee pressed the wrong button during a shift change. the frightening false alarm adds to the stress hawaiians are already feeling over the escalated nuclear tensions between the u.s. and north korea. i want to get straight to democratic congres...

Accidentally pressed the wrong button during a shift change. they were testing the system and they have been testing the system here in hawaii, but never anything like this. the test is an actual emergency siren, an attack siren that goes off and they have told the population here what its all about, but, indeed, in this time, it wasnt the attack system that went off. it was a message to television viewers. it was a message through the radio, and a text message on the cell phone. as emergency ma...

Where they operate. there was shift change and they were testing the systems and the wrong button was pushed. that was how it was told to me and to the public as well. we will be speaking to them late or about what they are doing to stop it from happening. now that people had the scare, there is a lot of talk and something that government wanted earlier of what to do in case there is an attack. people are discussing that. what do they need in their homes. the government was the first in the nati...

Emergency management agency and they have been there looking at the procedures and this happened during a shift change. that is just behind me in the diamond head crater in a bunker. thats where they operate. there was a shift change and they were testing the systems ask a wrong button was pushed. that was how it was told to me and the public as well. we will speak to them later about what they are doing to stop this from happening. thing we should make clear is now that people had this scare, t...

Between president trump and kim jong-un of north korea. hawaii, particularly, very, very disturbed by all of it. because they know that there is only 20 minutes between the time of a launch from north korea to the time of an impact here in hawaii. the public would have about 15 minutes to figure out how to take shelter and that information, by the way, has been released to the public quite a bit lately, because hawaii was the very first state in december to test its attack warning sirens. trying...

Its because of this alert. ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. this was a warning sent to peoples phones and they showed up on their tvs and played on radio station across the state. >> officials say the panic was caused by someone hitting the wrong button. a federal investigation is going to begin to figure out how one incident to cause this many problems. >> cnn sara sidner is in hawaii and has more details for us this morning. >> reporter: t...

Into oval office, the world wasnt worried about nuclear war. and now there are real concerns. it is kind of another example and, yes, kim jong-un is very much responsible for progressing his nuclear agenda, but it is an example of donald trumps rhetoric, threats, toward kim jong-un and saying yesterday, oh, we probably would be friends, it has the world confused, jumpy, scared, his words do matter. >> well, im going to let donald trump off the hook a little bit for this one and that is i dont th...

Occurred right and never risk meeting emergency management it was a procedure that occurs at the change of shift where they go through to make sure that the system is working and then employed he pushed the wrong button. and that triggered a false alarm sending people scrambling when we got the alarm were actually to find around the thirty sixth floor of the tower and we didnt know what to do my friend just waking up he said he lets someone come you know why he didnt go to sirius but its just. o...

Headquarters. plenty of apologies from hawaii tonight after a false ballistic missile alert. the alert shared on television radio and cell phone screening chaos and hysteria on the island for nearly 40 minutes. state officials say it was all caused by human error. someone hit the wrong button during a shift change. the federal trade commissions commission is investigating and state officials are promising to revise the alert system so this never happens again. the voice of college football has...