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Immediately. >> reporter: just after 8:00 a.m. in hawaii, pandemonium in paradise. hysteria triggered by a false alarm. the terrifying message screamed across cell phones throughout the state. ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii, seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. >> weve seen people starting to run. >> the hotel staff came and told my parents, seek shelter. you only have 12 minutes. >> um-hum. >> the mistake was part of an early warning system put into place amid rising tension...

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Luther king holiday weekend, the nations capitol is still reeling from president trumps remarks about immigrants from africa and haiti. his comments have reignited the debate of whether the president is a racist and derailed progress in a bipartisan deal on immigration, a setback that could let to government shutdown midnight friday, joining me now for exclusive interview, the new secretary of homeland security nielson. >> thank you. chris: lets discuss the false alarm in hawaii, just after 8:00...

8:07 a statewide warping was triggered by an employee. at 8:10 they validated there was no missile launch. 13 minutes after the false alarm was sudden out, they issued a public notification of cancellation via facebook and twitter. finally at 8:45 a.m., 38 minutes 38er after receiving authorization from fema, hawaii ema issued a message cancelling the false alert. a lot of people looking for answers. the honolulu star adviser calling out the mishap with the headline oops. wrong button. you have ...

Actually the governor says that someone at the hawaii emergency management pushed the wrong button causing this entire nightmare scenario to kind of go off for 38 minutes. someone at the hawaii emergency management actually -- well, they took responsibility. listen. >> this is regrettable. it wont happen again because the criticality of the the time of this type of event and the credibility of this alarm going out is critical of us saving lives. >> this was the reaction of people, under mattress...

Luther king holiday weekend, the nations capitol is still reeling from president trumps remarks about immigrants from africa and haiti. his comments have reignited the debate of whether the president is a racist and derailed progress in a bipartisan deal on immigration, a setback that could let to government shutdown midnight friday, joining me now for exclusive interview, the new secretary of homeland security nielson. >> thank you. chris: lets discuss the false alarm in hawaii, just after 8:00...

Their last conversation and we are seeing that across social media as well. people talking about their last conversations they thought they were having with their family members after they got this message. all in all, though, we have heard from emergency management officials and the governor himself. i spoke to them on the phone. they told me that this was human error. she apologized for it. they said it will not happen again. they are looking at exactly how it happened, but they said what even...

U.s. island off to an emergency missile alert was mistakenly sent out yesterday now the governor said a state employee had pushed the wrong button sending a text message to hawaiians warning them that an intercontinental missile would soon strike the island or the ex against the backdrop of international tension over north koreas ballistic missile program. warning sirens well out over hawaii. here. for nearly forty minutes it seemed like the world was about to end a text message was sent to peop...

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...

At the pen begtagon for years t human error can caused a calamity. >> sure, one of the things you try to do is mitigate the kind of human error that goes into this process, analysis and no notification as much as possible. you try to remove human error, this does show that there is still that possibility for people to miscalculate. what bothers me a little bit is this idea of pushing the wrong button. i am hope thing that the govern was trying to simplify and i am hoping this system is not relyi...