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Information released to community is accurate. we need to get to the bottom and make sure it never happens again. jeremy bash, former cheefr of staff at the cia department and nbc analyst as well. jeremy let in light of what i j read there from the senator and what we heard from gab norbeber well. what need to change in terms of the civil defense, how we respond to something line this. >> i think we need to do have exercises and protocols to explain precisely how the pentagon would notify state ...

Someone pushed a button. we are trying to turn around some footage we were there yesterday. it was not the phone call that would come in from u.s. pacific command alert the pooh em in this room to not only a put out the push alert but sound the siren, put out television alerts, and interrupt television programming and interrupt all am f.m. radio. the reason that this system didnt go off in the way that its in tended to in the way that people on hawaii have been drilling last two months is becaus...

>> [ inaudible ] someone pushed the wrong button and basically today there was a problem and human error. >> sound like you said somebody appreciated the wrong button there. let me ask you what happened after that. you were there at the department of emergency management. how did you and your colleagues react to what had happened there? we spoke to many people living in hawaii who have said here as a result of that they tried to call the department of emergency management and called the local po...

Crater and maintained and run by hawaii emergency management. so general saying spot on but they are saying up to 90% of the people could survive in the event of attack on the island of hawaii. thats why they have drilled so often about all of this. david. >> jacob referring to comments telling me that overnight here the wrong button was pushed. general, let me bring you back in here. dealing with very compressed period of time as jacob was just saying, 15, 20 minutes if a missile head nd the di...

The reason that happened so prepost trust in the words of the general, this push alert was triggered by a massive human error, if what we are hearing on msnbc that you got in your interviewed david is to be believed. this was not triggered by a call from the u.s. military. it was not palm command headquartered here in hawaii that called the phone in this specific room. that phone was not picked up by civil defense, hawaii emergency management which is what normally would happen faa letter said t...

This was human error, saying someone pressed the wrong button in hawaii. second thing that our colleagues at the pentagon reporting, not planning to release a statement. u.s. pacific command is taking all queries on department of defense. and we heard this was in fact a small alarm. much more to come here on msnbc. , shooting pain in my feet. i hear you, sam. cedric, i couldnt sleep at night because of my diabetic nerve pain. i hear you, claire, because my dad struggled with this pain. folks, do...

Jacob my colleague at msnbc is on waikiki beach in honolulu on assignment working on pieces related to this, what would happen if there were a north korean threat. bring us up to speed. we talked about the response and what is supposed to happen. what have you learned about the circumstances surrounding that push alert that came out just about 7 minutes past the hour in the last hour? >> well, i have to tell you, dade, listening to that, i know the audio, listening him someone pushed the wrong b...

My advice to the governor at the time was to be deliberate about this and make sure we do not cause undue alarm. you know, this is really state responsibility. my oversight responsibility extends to the pacific missile range and the joint base of pearl harbor, but to the ex- tend i offered him my views i told him to measure twice and cut once. >> senator, jacob soboroff whos in honolulu as you know has a question for you. jacob. >> reporter: i was mentioning to you earlier. i dont know if you he...

I want to be really clear. in this room, its a very small room, maybe as big as this balcony that im standing on here on the hotel, two gentlemen sitting there 24 hours a day. dedicate the phone line that is connected to u.s. pacific command, headquartered here on the island of hawaii. if that phone call rings, sends along this is u.s. pacific command, three things they would say, we are u.s. pacific in land we detected a missile and you are intended target. thats when the button was supposed to...

The east coast. in hawaii, approaching 1:00 p.m. the governor is about to explain a mistake that sent panic throughout the islands. warning of an incoming ballistic missile and telling residents to seek shelter. some ignored the warning, in other areas the fear was evident. this video taken at the university of hawaii. people running, looking for a safe space to hide. residents fearing the worst for themselves and their loved ones. in the end, all a serious mistake. >> when they go through to ma...