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Here. there's been a lot of talk about the potential for some sort of accidental catastrophe. this alarm did not originate from the u.s. military. so the way that this usually works is if in fact there had been some sort of potential incoming missile, u.s. pacific command would alert the hawaiian civilian authorities and they would send out the push alert to the residents and people on the island to seek shelter. there was never any kind of an indication from the military that then led to this push alert going out. the second thing to keep in mind of course here is that the military found out ...

>> jacob, when you heard that this had happened, this false alarm, and obviously we all got alerted from the network and were all scrambling, i was calling intelligence, what were your immediate reactions? >> i have to say, andrea, totally candidly, i was in the ocean behind me. it was about 8:00 in the morning. we had wrapped up our shoot and were going to be heading home to los angeles later in that day. so we were getting a little leisure time in. when we came on to shore and were told there was an official warning b sent, that there was an inbound ballistic missile, the first thing that we...

Incoming from north korea, tice the amount of time it would take for the travel from north korea to hawaii. people were terrified and panic in a place known as paradise. this were to look into the response should an attack actually be initiated by north korea. and we went into that bunker to understand what the systems in place were. they showed us a little bit of that. what is supposed to happen in the event of that, take a look at this. >> this is where the call comes in that notifies us of a ballistic missile launch. >> if a nuclear missile is launched from north korea, that is where you wi...

>> the u.s. pacific command has detected a missile threat to hawaii. a missile may impact on land or sea within minutes. >> are you imagine? what would you do in that moment? there were people being told that missiles heading towards the islands. how officials are working to prevent another false alarm and how did it even happen? ♪ when heartburn hits... fight back fast with tums smoothies. it starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue... and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum tum tum tum... smoothies... only from tums theratears® uniquefer from the electrolyte formul...

There are a lot of questions about the alert sent out yesterday to people in hawaii warning them to take cover because of an imminent missile strike. >> the u.s. pacific command detected a missile strike to hawaii. >> after that false alert went out, people scrambled to find cover in what they thought were the vital moments and it took 38 minutes before a correction alert went out. when and how did all of this happen? it started around 8:05 in a shift change. internal test was initiated and then at 8:07, a staty stae wide warning system was sent. they validated that there was no