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We have will ripley live in tokyo as it continues to snow. will, tempts fate by building the snowball. passers by may take a shot at you. tell us how this went down and how unusual this weekend is for you. >> reporter: it really is unusual to see snow in tokyo, dave. this is the first time in four years living here where i could have a snowball fight on the ground. also rare here, the missile drills. japan had a number of north korean missile drills, but never in tokyo because of the logis c logisti logistics. people received alert messages on their phones and sirens blaring telling people to ...

North korean missile heading toward hawaii, then i think it does warrant a broader conversation about the military's involvement, the federal government's involvement in not leaving it just to the states. >> bret: it's a real threat. you take a look at the map. distance from pyongyang to honolulu, 4600 miles. it's clearly a target. >> it is. it is sort of stoning this kind of thing could happen. you think there would be built and redundancies. to prevent precisely this kind of mishap. causing the kind of panic. unfortunately it's no longer just hawaii. the missiles the north koreans are capabl...

Into a panic. that's what a spokesperson for the agency told fox news. just after 8:00 a.m. local time, folks across the state got this message on their cell phones. "ballistic missile threats inbound to hawaii. seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill." of course, we now know there was no missile heading towards hawaii. state officials say an employee during a routine shift change just kind of hit the live alert button by mistake. it took 38 minutes to send out a second alert which read "there is no missile threat or danger to the state of hawaii. repeat, false alarm." more than a half an ...

There should be things like multifactor a password, use biometrics or clearance for multiple people, but there should be checks and balances in a technical and policy manner that stopped this from happening because this caused mass hysteria. it was terrifying to people. arthel: of course it was. the governor as well as the ema has already said, and they both have said first of all they are suspending the testing center december 1st, hawaii had reagan dated testing in the wake of the whole north korea tensions if you will in the threat of a possible missile heading to hawaii or somewhere in the...

People got this message on their phones and they thought 15 minutes, we've got 15 minutes before me and my family could be dead. >> how quickly were you able to notify the people of hawaii this wasn't true? >> as soon as i got the message i called hawaii civil defense officials, found out what was going on, confirmed it was a mistake and immediately started sending out tweets, putting things on social media, making phone calls to hawaii media to try to get the message out to people that this was a false alarm and this was -- this was a false alarm, that there was no incoming missile heading to...