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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 ...

Time, does remoteness matter before we had smart phones? >> well, david, you are making, again, an excellent point, which is that civil defense has changed in the era of everyone having a mobile device. and these push alerts which are governed by the civil authorities and the communication authorities in a particular area really have changed the way people get instant information. and i think what has really set people on edge here is that when this alert went out, and it was noticed on not just by people in hawaii, but then them posting on social media, and the social media alerts went to peo...

Past. >> this is a trigger for human emotion. the trigger to connect us back to our souls if we accept it. it really makes me emotional. >> reporter: the exhibition opens this friday night and will be in this gallery for the next ten months before it moves on to the permanent collection. in san francisco, lyanne melendez, abc7 news. >> and you can get the latest news any time with the abc7 news app, you can download it for free. just be sure to enable push alerts to be the first to know aout breaking alerts where you live. >> next the lineup, the #dubson7 free game show brought to you by jeep,...