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Officials are saying is the slow response. the initial alert went out as you mentioned at 8:07, eric, but then it took another 13 minutes for hawaii's emergency management agency to tweet out, quote, no missile threat to hawaii. but as you mentioned, it took nearly 40 minutes for that full alert to go out. in fact, the u.s. pacific command, which is in charge of all military forces in the pacific, and it monitors north korean missile launches, did not detect any launch, they issued a statement at 8:35 local saying quote no detected ballistic missile threat to hawaii. earlier message was sent i...

Reenter the earth's atmosphere. last year the head of the pacific command told congress he's weighing a decision to bring interceptor missiles to hawaii. right now if north korea were to launch any kind of missile and it was deemed a threat to hawaii or the united states, there are two locations where there are interceptor missiles, alaska, and an air force base in california. there was a successful missile test last year. only 44 interceptor missiles currently on-line right now to destroy north korean ballistic missile or any other country's ballistic missiles. there is money of course in the...

Arthel: bryan llenas is live from our new york city newsroom with more on this. >> for the better part of half hour there are some folks in hawaii that thought they were going to die in a missile attack. i mean that is literally what we're talking about here. that alert came out at 8:07 hawaii time. this alert reading quote, ballistic missile threat in bound to hawaii. seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. the emergency alert system also went out on television and radio, and we have video of what it was like to be watching tv at the time, this morning in hawaii, at 8:07, when the alert ...

Given some notice of how this investigation goes forward and what the outcome of it is. >> even a redundant system. it sounds amazing, it was a shift change and apparently did push the wrong button, say officials, you think you would have like -- you know, you go on the computer you want to change something, it says are you sure you want to do this? there's no break -- i mean there's no extra step there. >> right, or maybe the button is somewhere where it's isolated from other buttons, something like that. at least there would be some kind of precaution to make sure something like that doesn't...

Talking i was following what's going on in twitter, this was my phone when i woke up just now explaining what they saw and that was ballistic missile threat, i'm in honolulu, hawaii and my family in north shore, they were hiding in the garage. my mom and sister were crying. it was a false alarm but bolting -- i'm sorry, i misread that, betting a lot of people are shaken and u.s. pacific command tweeted as well. u.s. pacific command has detect nod ballistic missile threat to #hawaii, alert message was sent in error and false alarm and congresswoman tulsi who represents hawaii wanted to say, thi...