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That tragedy just coming into our newsroom. steve herrigan live in miami at that collapse site with the latest tonight. good evening. >> good evening. it's clear there was a crack in the bridge. what's not clear yet at this point is who exactly knew about it and when they knew. there was an e-mail from an engineer to a state worker department of transportation worker, voice mail also two days before the bridge itself collapsed. that voice mail was not heard until the day after the bridge collapsed. there was also a two-hour meeting on thursday, the day the bridge collapsed, before the collapse...

The army is said to be prepared to meet that threat. while u.s. military preparations are ramping up, u.s. anxiety is way up and nothing el straits that better than this weekend's false alarm in hawaii where a state worker mistakingly sent out a warning of incoming ballistic missiles that caused 38 minutes of panic across the islands. listen to a pastor on hawaii followed by a mother of five. >> we don't have basements here in hawaii. we don't have bomb shelters. so my family, we're all together. my oldest son happened to be here at the time. we just basically prayed. >> that's the kind of stu...

This is really a bad accident and perhaps the worst you could even imagine, scaring everybody in hawaii into believing that perhaps they only had minutes left to live. is being blamed on a state worker who accidentally flipped the switch her touched a button during shift change. clearly that is being looked into. >> as we have seen it came from hawaii with the governor and emergency management that only are they investigating an offer more training, the fcc is also investigating it. >> the federal communications commission monitors and regulates all intra- and interstate wire communications, t...

A journalist from the washington examiner. first of all, what phil just said, it's a state worker, i mean should state workers, with all due respect to them, should they actually have responsibility for something as serious as this? i mean they run the dmv. you are asking someone who has these type of responsibilities to have such a major impact in world affairs? >> well, right, happy weekend. and i think that this probably is a surprise to -- surprise to me actually that we're hearing that state workers have such a responsibility to alert of an incoming missile attack. so i think that's proba...

Future. that error being blamed on a state worker who accidentally pressed the wrong button as he was leaving from his shift and a new person was coming in. the federal corrections commission is also investigating, the fcc regulates state as well as interstate traffic, communication, be it, radio, tv, satellite, cable in all 50 states as well as d.c. and the u.s. territories. they will get to the bottom of exactly how the this happened and if it's determined that this mistake false alarm was in fact intentional, there will be some incredibly heavy ramifications because seriously, arthel, of al...