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During the press conference, this was a tweet and a lot of people aren't on twitter. they are certainly not sitting there staring at their twitter if they are at the beach. another 15 minutes goes by, and the u.s. military, their pacific command which tracks all of north korea's missile launches is based right there in hawaii said it had not detected a ballistic missile and the earlier message was in error and the state of hawaii will send out a correction message as soon as possible. but it took another 10 minutes, a full 40 minutes after the initial alert had gone out, false alert about an i...

You know, mentioned the process. look at this. this is from hawaii's emergency management agency. this is what the process is if there were to be a ballistic missile attack. the u.s. pacific command which is based in hawaii, sends a message to the state. the state then warns its citizens. you are talking about 20 minutes, from launch in north korea to a missile landing in hawaii. just 20 minutes. and in that time, in the first ten minutes, the warnings are sent and then citizens have just 10 minutes to react. and the only reaction they have, there are no fallout shelters. there are no bunkers ...

Number, thousands of troops on hawaii, which is largest geography region of the globe as the u.s. divides the globe, stretches all the way to india, and includes this missile threat of north korea. so they've been aware of this of how far could the north koreans launch a missile. and that's the text we keep hearing about, they keep farther and farther until they reach the intercontinental ballistic missile to reach the continental mainland. so hawaii has been prepared in getting ready for potential of this as the military does for all contingencies. >> i want to read to everyone the statement ...

Someone pushed a button. we are trying to turn around some footage we were there yesterday. it was not the phone call that would come in from u.s. pacific command alert the pooh em in this room to not only a put out the push alert but sound the siren, put out television alerts, and interrupt television programming and interrupt all am f.m. radio. the reason that this system didn't go off in the way that it's in tended to in the way that people on hawaii have been drilling last two months is because if indeed what the governor is saying and what you heard on mbs snbc this was a bi mistake. they...

8:05, 15 minutes later this message indicating no missile threat to hawaii. we didn't get someone from u.s. pacific command 30 minutes after that initial push alert. we heard from a spoerks person saying that earlier message was sent in error. lucky to have my jack object my colleague on waikiki beach. i know you want to get into here to talk about how this went down and what you've heard since, jack object. >> jay object. >> let me pick up where courtney left off. if they detect, the way that hawaii civil defense emergency management the agency that sent out this alert in error would be notif...