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At 0807 is when the trigger is pulled on the test. the wrong button was pushed on this test. it went into an actual event versus a test. at 8:10 a.m., we of course got messages on the system, the telephones and so on and calls that this had gone out and at that point in time, we started the recall or the cancellation process. at 8:13 a.m., a cancellation was issued, a warning message, and what it does is prevent any more messages going out. it doesnt issue a separate message cancelling it. it ju...

Finds out that the us has alert system, i am not quite sure. >> i have a feeling talk shows will be abuzz with this tomorrow. we will see a lot in we may see the president talk about this as well. eliza collins, usa today, thank you. >> thanks! >> when this happened we were all wondering if this could have been some kind of hack or cybersecurity situation. we want to bring in a cybersecurity analyst and senior fellow at the center for digital government who joins us on the phone now. we talked y...

Given some notice of how this investigation goes forward and what the outcome of it is. >> even a redundant system. it sounds amazing, it was a shift change and apparently did push the wrong button, say officials, you think you would have like -- you know, you go on the computer you want to change something, it says are you sure you want to do this? theres no break -- i mean theres no extra step there. >> right, or maybe the button is somewhere where its isolated from other buttons, something li...

Get some help. >> people are calling 911. we have been talking to folks there on the island. people got into their bathtubs, put mattresses over them. we have people that we know there. i have a friend from sacramento who now lives in hawaii. his name is jeremy. he said today on social media that he got a call from his mom who said honey, there is a nuclear attack happening in hawaii. i love you. >> wow. >> and that is the type of thing that happened. those are the stories that we will continue ...

Shelters. >> you bet there will be a lot of discussion actors. false alarms, there will be a lot of discussion about that because there is one angry congresswoman out there who is making a beeline to washington. you can be sure she will be pushing for some action on this so there is more of a pro action and it is really kind of bizarre. just a shift change and in that, one quick moment, someone pushed the wrong button. yet, look at how long it took to warn everyone that this was a false alarm. >...

Checking of how this process is it. this is a frightening thing. many people that this was the real thing. 38 minutes went by with uncertainty. >> bryan llenas, thank you for the update. >> of course some heartbreaking moments of people trying to reach the family on the mainland to call and say something is about to happen. as we move through this afternoon here and figure out, get to the bottom of exactly what happened, the hawaiian governor, david ige, did come out and say was the wrong button...

Toward the islands of hawaii. jacob, what have you learned since? we talked to you since the reaction to this push alert. now about two hours ago. what is supposed to happen. what have you learned about how all of this transpired? im still stuck what we heard from the department of emergency management this may have been something as simple as a wrong button being pushed. >> so thats the key. david the key piece of this, you were told this by a spokesman for the hawaii emergency management agenc...

Management agency of hawaii less than 24 hours ago, as he was explaining to me, this system, it went so badly wrong today, is supposed to actual work. to reiterate, the governors office has confirmed that this was the push of a wrong button by a human being who sits inside, basically in a control room, within a bunker, within diamond head crater here, on the island of oahu, inside hawaiis civil defense. this is a system thats designed to basically notify civil defense, to tell hawaiians to take ...

Big fat human error that pressed the wrong button. there isnt much room for error? >> no, there is not. and let me talk about what courtney talked about how this works inside the department of defense. when the united states detects a missile launch lets say from north korea, by our satellites, immediately word would go to u.s. northern command, which is headquartered at peterson air force base in colorado springs, colorado. leadership would convene an emergency conference call with the pentagon...

Im david gura. following this breaking news in hawaii on their phones this is not a drill. many minutes followed before a correction to the message. we saw locals in hawaii. law enforcement and legislators in washington trying to establish this was a real threat. the department of emergency management saying no missile threat to hawaii. we heard from hawaii since this was human error. someone there in the department press the wrong button. trying to figure out what happened. covering the pentago...