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Emergency alert sent to cell phones across the state warning of a ballistic missile head their way. the frightening alert to warning quote this is not a drill it wasnt until 38 minutes later that a correction was sent to cell phones saying it was all a false alarm. the reason for the mistake according to state officials? somebody pushed the wrong button. here is the governor. >> what happened today was totally unacceptable, and many in our community were deeply affected by this. and im sorry for...

They sent a warning seek shelter, where do we go? >> reporter: what ended up happening was an employee at the emergency management agency hit a wrong button, that sent a text alert out and the way the system is set up, it took 38 minutes, 38 long minutes for the residents here in hawaii to get a correction text. and as a result, weve learned now, rick, that there are going to be state and federal hearings looking into what happened and how they can make sure this never happens again. rick: horri...

Message was sent out over radio, television, and cell phones warning ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii, seek immediate shelter, this is not a drill. it took 38 minutes before a second message went out, telling residents and tourists that the alert had been sent in error. 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 ...

Their face and now theyre trying to get to the bottom of how this happened. they explained it is an employee who pressed the wrong button. >> i am not sure if you have the answer, you touched on the fact that they started looking into what would need to happen and they started some emergency drills, for example, like sirens, do you know what plans they have in place in case a real life scenario as this happens? >> they have plans in place. they have been looking at those plans and new technology...

Hitting the wrong button. but well have more on this developing story during this hour including jason chaffetz. the difference between president trump and other presidents is his transparency. no political correctness, no talking out of both side of his mouth, but instead, a hard-nosed, what you see is what you get successful negotiator. but the press doesnt applaud him for that transparency. the presidents haters would rather take him down, preferring to get in the waive our economic success a...

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Entire fine its going to drop scrap altogether and theyre too many cuts for perspective for their lives jobs and countrys economic future. government numbers not so why would he why would people and he put additional at this point so the frustration exists but as i said some people are so frustrated that theyre not taking to the streets and. funny for china in chinas thanks for your reporting. our governor of hawaii has apologized to residents all of the u.s. island off to an emergency missile a...

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Reporter: the director of the hawaii emergency management agency said an employee hit the wrong button during a shift change. that led to a string of events that did not allow them to follow up with another text alert for 38 minutes. >> shouldnt there be more safeguard than one person touching one button? >> absolutely. the fact that these processes failed so hic all that caused this trauma and terror across at 8 of hawaii must be fixed immediately. reporter: it was the military actually and not...

Was false until about 38 minutes after the false alarm. that of course prolonging the emotion and the panic. hawaiian officials say human error caused this false alarm. a worker during a shift change actually pushed the wrong button. the white house saying that this was a state-controlled exercise, meaning it wasnt run by the federal authorities. hawaiian congresswoman tulsi gabbard has confirmed on twitter that a missile was not heading to hawaii and honolulus mayor also tweeting quote the ball...