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Someone pressed literally pressed the wrong button. >> so just to be clear, then the governor seems to be explaining that in was not some kind of hack, this was not -- >> no. >> this was actually a human error of some kind. >> exactly. he said a mistake made during a standard procedure at the changeover of a shift and an employee pushed the wrong button. that is exactly how he put it. >> did the governor say people may have been injured, emergency responders had to kick into gear, did he say any...

Another text message about 30 minutes later saying that was a false alarm. we want to bring your attention to a 6 pm eastern news conference that will be happening from officials in hawaii. they will come to microphones and discuss what happened. as we wait for that, lets talk about what happened today with retired u.s. army lieutenant, a former green beret commander and a fox news contributor. thank you for being here today and again thank you for your service. >> thank you. what an amazing day...

It says emergency alert, ballistic missile threat in bound to hawaii. seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. it took emergency officials nearly 40 minutes to send the correct message correcting that. now, theyre saying an employee at the emergency management office pushed the wrong button during a shift change to send that false alarm. the white house has been briefed on all this, is monitoring the developments. officials scheduled to hold a news conference half hour from now at 6:00 p.m. ...

Initially, we were, by that point. >> where are you from? >> fort lauderdale, florida. im sure you can imagine it was a certain way to wake up this morning. >> absolutely. what happens now? one of the things weve heard. and im glad youre with us seeking give us your eyeballs. where people running into the street, you describe how it was, where you were. but now that it has calmed down, do people seem, i mean obviously hawaii is very chill. but the people going back to their vacation mode or mode...

Future. that error being blamed on a state worker who accidentally pressed the wrong button as he was leaving from his shift and a new person was coming in. the federal corrections commission is also investigating, the fcc regulates state as well as interstate traffic, communication, be it, radio, tv, satellite, cable in all 50 states as well as d.c. and the u.s. territories. they will get to the bottom of exactly how the this happened and if its determined that this mistake false alarm was in f...

Were those sirens triggered when you guys were already issues a correction that it was a false alarm? >> we have to check on that. thats why we do the monthly check. the drill that was done this morning was only for the emergency alert system, which the tv, radio, and wireless emergency alert system which are the cell phones. >> are the real alerts supposed to work where you get the notification and are the sirens supposed to go after that? >> that is correct. because this is an internal test or...

-- eric shawn. arthel: im arthel neville. officials are turning to twitter to calm citizens and reassure them there was no imminent danger. hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard tweeting out hawaii there is a false alarm. there is no incoming missile to hawaii. i have confirmed with officials there is no incoming missile. president trump received a briefing on the situation in hawaii. a white house official stressing the error happened on a state level, not federal. hawaiis governor also confirming...

You sure you want to push that button? >> its a screen. its more like a mouse click. its a screen, a test button and an actual. the wrong button was pushed. >> once that button is pushed, thats it? it goes through? >> theres no sort of redundancy whatsoever? >> the old process was no redundancy. we have implemented changes already to ensure that it becomes a redundant process that so it wont be a single individual, there will be at least two people that would be involved to initiate the alert? >...

David ige. while im thankful this was a false alarm the public must have confidence in the emergency alert system. im working to get to the bottom of this so that we can prevent this type of error in the future. according to the governor, this was simply human error during a shift change here one of the departing employees accidentally pressed the wrong button and led to this false alarm and really, a major, major scare in hawaii. which has really been on edge ever since north korean supreme com...

Of call. what more needs to be done? what do you think? >> i think there will be a lot of lessons learned from this. survey concerning that this happened. definition of the systems are not habitable -- able to be hacked. was this from outside or was this from inside. they will have to find out what the story is regarding this. hopefully they will take lessons learned. and good investigation and sister figured out. they also look at the preparedness and preparedness not only of the government but...