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Weapons, and its delivery capability, no matter what we say or do. so public discourse is not going to have the very big impact on the actuality of north korean nuclear development and delivery capability. however, like i said, if you're on the wrong end of a thermonuclear device, it doesn't much matter who the president of the united states is, it's not going to be very good for you. >> and colonel, the white house statement pointed out that the false alarm was triggered during a state exercise. but officials in hawaii say it was human error made during a shift change when a worker pressed th...

In other words, you press the button and it says are you sure you want to send this alert out. and you press it again. every system of communication in the military and in homeland security would have that. maybe someone wasn't paying attention or not knew. that is the sfifirst thing. second thing that went out, it has to come back through the same communication channels because the people who received it are the ones who will be following it. >> all right, let me stop you there for a minute because i do want to get to steve moore, he is a man who knows these systems. steve, does the explanati...

They blew it here. it is totally unacceptable. i listened in on that press conference. and they don't quite understand how bad this was to the extent that one person was in a position to make a human error and send more than a million and a half people into a tail spin and it took 38 minutes to correct, there is just no excuse for that. i'm a pretty even keeled guy, but i'm quite angry. >> and we heard from vern miyagi, administrator of the hawaii emergency agency in that news conference, and he does say i take responsibility, this is on my watch. and here is how they explain what happened. th...

Let's listen in. >> this morning an error was made and a false alarm was sent to cellphones and to tv and radio. we investigated and as soon as we became aware that it was an error, we took action to send the notification that it was a false alarm. this should not have happened. we have investigating the sequence of events that occurred. and an error was made in emergency management which allowed this false alarm to be sent. >> can you explain the error in-depth as much as you can? >> it was a procedure that occurs at the change of shift, enabling to make sure that the system is working, and a...

People acted upon that message because it said this is not a drill. you were just listening to one account. this was repeated over and over across the island for 38 agonizing minutes, people were not given an official response to say this was done in error. sara sidner has been speaking to the governor of hawaii. what did you get? >> so the question to him was how did this happen and that is what everybody wants to know. he always did mention that not only was a text sent out, but there were those -- and we're all familiar with that when the television and the radio beeps out that sound that t...