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Weapons, and its delivery capability, no matter what we say or do. so public discourse is not going to have the very big impact on the actuality of north korean nuclear development and delivery capability. however, like i said, if youre on the wrong end of a thermonuclear device, it doesnt much matter who the president of the united states is, its not going to be very good for you. >> and colonel, the white house statement pointed out that the false alarm was triggered during a state exercise. b...

In other words, you press the button and it says are you sure you want to send this alert out. and you press it again. every system of communication in the military and in homeland security would have that. maybe someone wasnt paying attention or not knew. that is the sfifirst thing. second thing that went out, it has to come back through the same communication channels because the people who received it are the ones who will be following it. >> all right, let me stop you there for a minute beca...

They blew it here. it is totally unacceptable. i listened in on that press conference. and they dont quite understand how bad this was to the extent that one person was in a position to make a human error and send more than a million and a half people into a tail spin and it took 38 minutes to correct, there is just no excuse for that. im a pretty even keeled guy, but im quite angry. >> and we heard from vern miyagi, administrator of the hawaii emergency agency in that news conference, and he do...

Lets listen in. >> this morning an error was made and a false alarm was sent to cellphones and to tv and radio. we investigated and as soon as we became aware that it was an error, we took action to send the notification that it was a false alarm. this should not have happened. we have investigating the sequence of events that occurred. and an error was made in emergency management which allowed this false alarm to be sent. >> can you explain the error in-depth as much as you can? >> it was a pr...

People acted upon that message because it said this is not a drill. you were just listening to one account. this was repeated over and over across the island for 38 agonizing minutes, people were not given an official response to say this was done in error. sara sidner has been speaking to the governor of hawaii. what did you get? >> so the question to him was how did this happen and that is what everybody wants to know. he always did mention that not only was a text sent out, but there were tho...

Families are putting their kids into storm drains, this just a glimpse now of how frightened people in hawaii were, how they reacted to this urgent news about this inbound missile that again thankfully turned out to be false. i want to bring in senator maisy hirono of hawaii. you said officials need to get to the bottom of what happened. make sure it never happens again. youre joining us on the phone. the governor has said a wrong button was pushed during a shift change. thats what triggered all...

Pushing a wrong button when it comes to something as serious as a weapon. do you think the pentagon or the department of homeland security or the white house reacted quick enough for this? 38 minutes is awfully a long time for people to be thinking they could die. >> i cannot imagine the stress that people were going under and the clip that we are showing, showing you how emotional it was and certainly not anything you want to see. i think specific command acted quickly as they could. when they ...

This is one persons mistake. what happened? >> basically someone there had a bad day, you know, what the governor told reporters is that the governor basically says this was a problem. someone pushed the wrong button. take a listen to this extraordinary statement by governor ige moments ago. >> it was a procedure that occurred at the change of shift when they go through to make sure that the system is working and employees pushed the wrong button. >> it came down to a person pushing the wrong bu...

People in hawaii were alerted that police stimissilest to strike them. it was a false alarm. an employee hit the wrong button during shift change. i want to bring in someone currently in hawaii, in the u.s. navy, just moved to hawaii three weeks ago to study to become a chaplain. thank you for joining us. tell us about the moment you got the alert. >> thank you for having me. approximately at 800::00 my pho went off and alerting me that a missile bomb was heading to hawaii. and at the moment i w...

Simply during shift change. a wrong button apparently. what do you think should be the next step as far as the investigation and making any kind of change? >> one thing i would do, i would put in place one of those second guessing notifications that when you hit it, it ask you one more time ask you sure you want to do that before it goes out. and then if you make a mistake, id immediately have a procedure for calling it back. >> is this a situation you and your colleagues on the house foo fofrn ...