Page 9 - Us Pacific Command News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Ask your health care provider if you're tresiba® ready. covered by most insurance and medicare plans. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ a lot of questions after an erroneous alert for people in hawaii warning them to take cover because of an imminent missile strike. >> the u.s. pacific command has detected a missile threat to hawaii. a missile may impact on land and sea within minutes. >> you can imagine what came next. chaos ensued after that went out. people scrambled to find cover in what they thought were their final moments. it took 38 minutes before a correction alert was sent out. when and how...

Pacific command, a military organization that is actually headquartered in hawaii. and then they notify the emergency management association that starts the process of notification. that is not the question you're asking. you're asking what happens when all of that does occur? truthfully, not a whole lot. there isn't a whole lot of shelters that would prevent a massive disaster, an injury for the people who live on the island or anywhere else where a nuclear missile is headed. >> hawaii emergency management association is testing the nuclear siren system. if a missile is launched near hawaii, ...

Worked. >> it was pacific command that put out an official notification that it was not true. >> they in fact checked em a&e ma sent it out. they have to be in this case and tracking the targets and determining the defense. the ema actually alerts the civilians and the population. >> we talked a lot yesterday. let's talk about this. homeland security chief christian nealson called the warning an unfortunate mistake. the situation could turn into a boy who cried wolf and force that people are not going to abide by in the future. we discussed that. that is a real concern. >> it is. how hawaii re...

Military commander and the government officials in the area where they detect and where they calculate the missile might be headed. in this case, that would have been pacific command and that was part of what caused the confusion yesterday. neither of those organizations had started the alert system. when the alert system came out over the sirens and texting and television channels, i'm sure the military commanders on watch looked at each other and said what is going on? they had to confirm or deny the actual event. it was denied soon but then it wasn't the responsibility of the military to sa...

Sent. >> we have coverage on this, from president trumps at florida state, we begin with brian who is following the developing story. >> this began at 807 hawaii time. the ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii, seek immediate shelter, this is not a drill. this was the text message that 1.3 million hawaiian scott this morning. the emergency alert system went out on television and radio. this is what it was like to be in hawaii this morning with the emergency alert system came on while you're watching tv. >> the u.s. pacific command has detected a missile threat to