missiles which are absolutely terrifying or a tsunami or fire, you're going to want to align local, state and federal communication strategies. that generally happens. what happens here is one of those entities was testing. that's pretty common and in some ways fortunately because the federal government was not part of it, it was able to say this was a big mistake. >> hold on, i want to bring in our global affairs correspondent, elise labott. you have a statement or new information? >> that's right. i have a statement from the spokesman of the u.s. command in hawaii that does the pacific. the spokesman commander says on the record, u.s. pat com has detected no ballistic missile to hawaii. earlier message was sent in error. the state of hawaii will send out a correction message as soon as possible. obviously twitter was blowing up with the idea that so many