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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, we've 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: horrific mistake, we'll have more later this hour as well. thank you from honolulu. the number of peop...

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, we've 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: horrific mistake, we'll have more later this hour as well. thank you from honolulu. the number of peop...

System is set up, it took 38 minutes to put out a correction text. that was a long 38 minutes for the residents of hawaii, arthel. >> i can only imagine. here we are a day and some change later. have you had a chance to talk to people about the reality of what happened and any thoughts if that could happen in real life and if it's not a drill? reporter: well, 24 hours later some residents are taking it lightly. but it was definitely very very serious when people didn't realize exactly what was going on yesterday. and there's really a sense among residents in hawaii that they realize that they ...