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There was no announcement over the p.a.s at any time of the one staff member said our manager told us to pray. >> duck and cover. >> government psas such as this were routine in the cold war. nearly seven decades later, duck and cover seems to have been replaced with dread and confusion. >> people can survive a nuclear detonation if they protect themselves from radiation. that means shelter, hiding, and that means not coming out for some period of time while the radiation passes. >> december marked the first test of hawaii's siren warning system since the cold war era. hawaii's emergency manag...

Inside diamond head crater in this bunker where the state warning point is. this is where the mistake originated. an officer brought the wrong template up on the computer and then the computer asked whether or not you want to send out the message and someone clicked yes. it all happened during what was supposed to be a routine drill. the officer who sent the erroneous message to the public has been reassigned during an investigation. retired army major general vern meotti is the head of the team. >> what would you like to say no those who were terrified and children were afraid. >> i want to a...

It all happened during what was supposed to be a routine drill, the officer who sent the erroneous message to the public has been reassigned during an investigation. retired army major general vern miyagi is the head of the team. what would you like to say to those who are angry, who were terrified, whose children were afraid? >> for my side, i want to say i apologize for this. it should not have happened. we're taking steps to fix it so it never happens again. >> reporter: so why did it say so long to send the false alarm message? that message hadn't been created. >> one thing we have done is...

Ballistic missile strike rattled their nerves, the question remains why did it take so long for officials to send out a correction. >> it was unacceptable it was sent out in the first place, but the fact it took so long to send out the second message to calm people, to allay their fears this was a mistake, a false alarm, is something that has to be fixed, corrected, with people held accountable. >> and joining me by phone, a man who has been very busy, vern miyagi, administrator at the hawaiian emergency management agency. i'm going to ask you the question on everyone's mienltd, why did it tak...

It's not one person that pushes the button. and right now, we have already installed on the template another cancellation button that would put out a prescripted message that says this is a false alarm and canceled. and that's what took us a long time, the 38 minutes. it will be instantaneous if we ever have this again, but our goal is to never have this happen again. >> i can imagine. i will say i have friends who live in hawaii, and one friend in particular has been talking about really what people have been saying there, citizens, and she suggests there were sirens that went off in the pear...