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Not sirens, 394 sirens throughout the islands of hawaii by mistake. this could be a big fat human error that triggered a message this is not a drill we've detected inbound ballistic missile coming from north korea. it could be as simple as massive hue middle east m human error. now that's something that would have to be sorted out by them. but from our perch here where we were yesterday inside the civil defense bunker on hawaii sounds like this was a big mistake. and you have the key part of it in your interview. >> over there in hawaii. stay with us. i'm joined by national security analyst an...

It did not get to the point where hawaii emergency management decided they needed to sound the sirens. there are 394 sirens reactivated cold war sirens that are normally used for hurricanes, for tsunamis here. and they have a new siren that they brought back that they used during the cold war that has a distinct noise that would sound in the event of an inbound ballistic missile from north korea or otherwise. they obviously did not determine in this small room that we were in at the civil defense agency yesterday that they needed to push the button to sound those sirens. so something happened ...

Who is alive and who that might be. just to be very clear, there was a false alarm. no inbound ballistic missile. but they have this in place. and that begins with push alerts on phones. interruptions on television. on their cell phones. on amfm radio and sounds like that did happen. the question is what happened between the alert coming out, whether pacific command in hawaii or elsewhere, and the decision to not sound those 394 sirens throughout the state of hawaii on all the different islands here? >> colleague in hawaii reporting on these very issues of the just spoke with tulsi gabbard fro...

Actually sent out, if indeed the wrong button was pushed. what happened between the time, or what happened before the button was pushed. what is supposed to happen is the phone is supposed to ring. specific message that civilian message would get on the phone, we have detected in pound ballistic missile this is the target. short and to the point. at that point hawaii civil management can go into basically crisis mode. alert people here on the island. and what did happen today was not that process at all. as courtney has been saying from the pentagon, as kelly from the president. there was a br...

Hundreds of people, if not a million people on the island of hawaii, particularly at oahu. we were on the ocean, 10:00 a.m. when the alert went out and did not hear sirens. there are 394 sirens, situated throughout the islands of hawaii that are supposed to go off in the event of an actual nuclear missile attack inbound to hawaii. of course, the full system was not activated. the text message part of the system, i've seen some reports of the television alert also being activated. i talked to the center from hawaii earlier on msnbc. he says million until further notice, like to see a suspension...