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The honolulu star advertiser calling out with the headline oopz, wrong button. let's discuss all of this with hawaii state representative. first off, yesterday -- thank you for joining us. good to see you in person. yesterday was all on the telephone when we spoke. i know you are looking for answers as many people are wanding to know how this possibly could have happened. you gave yesterday a very moving and very personal account of what you and your family were going through. how are you today? >> they're fine today. it was very hectic yesterday. trying to take the day off today and take the ...

Paddle in and do best we could. >> some people put their children in storm drains hoping they would be safer there. and other people tried to find anywhere that was safe or safer from the missiles. thankfully it was a false alarm. the governor says one person a staffer at the emergency management center simply pushed the wrong button. president trump in florida this weekend, fully briefed on the incident in hawaii. he spoke with the u.s. national security advisor and his white house chief of staff. the people of hawaii are breathing a sigh of relief. telling us measures are being put into plac...

Dangerous. we are looking people didn't die yesterday. there were people who acted a little panicked more than they should have, but we're lucky nobody was injured and credit to the people of hawaii who largely kept their cool and endured and are very resilient. >> the governor i believe said simply a matter of a person hitting the wrong button. have you learned more details other than that? >> i haven't heard more details on that. but i think we all in this information know there are a lot of areas in our personal lives where we need two step verification to access banking accounts. the fact ...

Respond to in an emergency. >> how long did it take before you personally knew there wasn't a missile coming? >> certainly i had made several phone calls after getting the initial alert to find out what was actually happening. it took me a couple of minutes, maybe five minutes or so before i had determined that it was a false alarm. >> meantime everybody else was waiting for 38 minutes before that correction was issued. i know in your previous press question-and-answer sessions you've talked about what you have learned being that somebody pushed the wrong button and that's what triggered this ...

People were calling family members telling them they thought it was the last time they would be speaking to one another. a state representative said he gathered his family in the bathroom and had to explain to his daughter when she asked him if we were at war, that, yes, indeed we were and he wanted them to survive. then came the message that this was a false alarm. that took 38 minutes, many people waiting that long to find out that indeed there was no inbound missile and they were safe. emergency managers say this all happened because during a shift change, someone pressed the wrong button. ...