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Inside the pentagon there are a variety of procedures, protocols to make sure theyre absolutely certain about this. When theres a launch from north korea, within minutes, richard, they know the direction of that missile and its usually within those initial minutes and that boost stage they make a determination whether or not to shoot it down. Now, so far they havent. They have never tried to intercept an incoming missile from north korea or from any other country. Most of the intercepts, all of the intercepts weve had have been from tests but its usually in that initial phase that the north co...

Minutes later, that is when the hawaii ema, again, which vern miagi is the administrator for, then sent out a tweet at 1:20 or rather 8:20 local time that said, no missile threat to hawaii. so reversing what you see on the right hand side of your screen right now, the hawaii emergency management agency then saying no missile threat to hawaii. and that's about 15 minutes later. let's bring in barry mccaffrey, nbc news analyst and contributor. general, thanks for being with us. you are in happen lieu lionolul. how did you learn about this news? >> we got a very effective push notification over i...

Went out. this about a ballistic missile threat that was inbound. they most likely got the news over their mobile phones. you've heard it before. it's a loud buzz, you then look down on your phone and then they saw that warning. again, that a ballistic missile threat was inbound, take cover and that is what they were doing there. and what we were also just showing you as we were coming back from break is again, the hawaii emergency management agency, the head, the administrator, vern miagi saying it was his fault personally. taking responsibility. we don't know exactly whether or who made the ...