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You were in the control room where a missile a letter was sent from just hours before it was sent out. and the question everybody had immediately was how in the world did this happen. >> yeah, chris, it's crazy happenstance. we were here on assignment for an upcoming story about the response to a potential nuclear attack and what might happen. looking at some of that footage. we are in the control center. what normally happens in this room in the events, god forbid, of a nuclear missile strike or incoming icbm from north korea or anywhere else, u.s. specific command, pay com, would call that r...

Organization to be responsible for putting out these emergency alerts? should it be in the hands of a different agency, federal or otherwise? >> i think it's a very good question. i don't know the answer to that. and i want to make sure we don't rush into a new process. i think one of the reasons that we had this terrifying scare is because they rushed into a new process. they wanted to be responsive to the increased threat of ballistic missiles coming across the pacific from -- from north korea and they set up a process, but they went too fast. they did not articulate it fully. they didn't ha...

Pay com, which is a secure line. >> pacific command? >> exactly. they notify our warning officers. the warning officers then have to make a decision rather quickly to do -- they have a check list on the side, and they go down the check list, but important is the decision to activate the state-wide siren system. >> reporter: so the decision has to be made to activate the stayed wi-- statewide sirens. pay com means pacific command. this was a shift -- basically a shift from one group of individuals to another, in a room that's manned 24 hours a day. instead of pushing a button to test the system...

What would be your first plan of action there? >> is to build the coordination as they're doing now between the japanese defense force, japanese government, and pay com, the pacific command has done a lot of posturing, moving ships, ronald reagan to include elements of the third marine expeditionary force, the tartuga, essex. several ships are in strike zone. the u.s. has decided u.s. forces at the air base will be the onground coordinator working with the japanese. and hopefully within the next coming hours, we will get a request from the japanese for those search and rescue assets to go to w...