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John peterson who is in hawaii says that in reaction to receiving this incredible message on his phone, under he says quote - under mattresses in the bathtub with my wife, baby and in-laws. please lord, let this bomb threat not be real. another person tweeted jillian, sheltered in place in our bathroom with our pets. but i was sobbing the whole time trying to get east coast family on the phone. we have a tweet also from brian who is a senator in hawaii. again, false alarm. what happened today is totally inexcusable. the whole state was terrified. there needs to be quick accountability and a fi...

They are stable states. north korea is stable but it could be unstable. there are a lot of disturbing signs out of pyongyang. our military doesn't talk to his military. that's a problem for us. we need to discuss this with the north koreans. i hope the south koreans instill that sense of deterrence. i think we have to impose a lot of costs on china before they come to the table. >> gordon chang, thank you very much, always a pleasure to talk to you and get your take on these. thank you very much, eric. eric: thank you. imagine looking at your cell phone it tells you there's a ballistic missile...

White house official, the president has been briefed on the state of hawaii's emergency management exercise, this was purely a state exercise. let's bring in jonathan, former communications director at the u.s. mission to do un. jonathan, what do you make of that? >> it's oo early to make judgment calls, we have to really figure out what's groining on here because speculation can cause a lot of disruption and confusion and we need to really, really get to the bottom. this is not a trivial matter. you have to get this right, we have to figure out what went wrong here and figure out whether that...

On the state employees emergency exercise. adding this was purely a state exercise. >> is bringing phil keating q is live from mar-a-lago where the president is this weekend. >> the president was still at his golf club wrapping up down the street about 4 and a half hours of golfing this morning. afterwards now he is back in mar-a-lago, the word came out that this false alarm came from the state of hawaii emergency operations center. we now have a statement for a white house official. this is not a tweet directly from the president. quote the president has been briefed on the state of hawaii em...

Emergency management exercise. this was purely a state exercise. and pacific command responsible for the pacific region this statement from the commander -- has detected no ballistic missile threat to hawaii. earlier message was sents -- sent in error. the state of hawaii will send a correction message as soon as possible. this was the original alert, 8:07 a.m. hawaii time. quote ballistic missile threat in bound to hawaii. seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. again, it took 38 minutes for a cell phone correction to go out saying it was all a false alarm. and the governor released this...