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False warning of an impending strike spent 36 minutes terrified after receiving this warning on their cell phones. ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii, seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. that text alert, that broadcast, just went to more than a million cell phones and there was this audio recording that came across local television. >> if you are outdoors seek immediate shelter in a building. remain indoors well away from windows. if you are driving, pull safely to the side of the road and seek shelter in a building or lay on the floor. we will announce when the threat has end...

Tonight on abc 7 news at 6:00, the entire state of hawaii on edge because of a missile alert fiasco. >> as people took cover in hawaii, a california lawmaker told abc 7 news he can help make sure this never happens here. >> rain is expected to return. when it's going to hit where you live. abc 7 at 6:00 starts now. an emergency error terrorizes hawaii. fear of an imminent missile strike sents people seeking cough tore find out a short time later it was all a mistake. good evening. thanks for joining us. i'm eric thomas. >> i'm dion lim. many people woke up to a text alert or saw on tv the me...

That area is staffed. this is not a drill, we have an incoming ballistic missile to actually go out is a call from pacom. pacific command of the u.s. military supposed to go into that room and then these men and women that staff the room are supposed to send out not only the text alert, the television alert and sirens. one other thing i want to say to you, davids, about supposedly sirens being sounded across the island. we didn't hear sirens on this side of the island. on the waikiki side. there are 394, telling you throughout the day, sirens throughout the state of hawaii. sounds as if a line...

United states. this was a massive false alarm triggered by frankly somebody pushing the wrong button on the state side. turns out we were actually in that very room just yesterday reporting on a assignment for nbc about what would happen in the event of a nuclear attack on hawaii. i want to show you that footage now, david. take a look. >> this gentleman in the state warning point, state warning officers will receive a call from pacific command on a secure line which i'll show you in a second. that comes in and they have a few, about a minute or two to determine the accuracy of the call. authe...

Surrounding area down. this entire neighborhood is under mandatory evacuation. you can see the smoke has set in here. clouds of smoke all the way up and down this street. to an extent, it looks like armageddon with the flames jumping out of thaoe these homes. this is a dangerous situation continuing to play out. at least six homes destroyed in this bel air neighborhood. if there's any good news, it's that the santa ana winds that have been rolling through california this weekend died down this afternoon. that's really helped the firefighters here on the ground. dana, we're told those winds cou...