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Families are putting their kids into storm drains, this just a glimpse now of how frightened people in hawaii were, how they reacted to this urgent news about this inbound missile that again thankfully turned out to be false. i want to bring in senator maisy hirono of hawaii. you said officials need to get to the bottom of what happened. make sure it never happens again. you're joining us on the phone. the governor has said a wrong button was pushed during a shift change. that's what triggered all of this. the white house says this was a state-controlled exercise. can you offer any clarificati...

Pushing a wrong button when it comes to something as serious as a weapon. do you think the pentagon or the department of homeland security or the white house reacted quick enough for this? 38 minutes is awfully a long time for people to be thinking they could die. >> i cannot imagine the stress that people were going under and the clip that we are showing, showing you how emotional it was and certainly not anything you want to see. i think specific command acted quickly as they could. when they finally put it out it was a false alarm, they acted as quickly as they could. it is important for pe...

This is one person's mistake. what happened? >> basically someone there had a bad day, you know, what the governor told reporters is that the governor basically says this was a problem. someone pushed the wrong button. take a listen to this extraordinary statement by governor ige moments ago. >> it was a procedure that occurred at the change of shift when they go through to make sure that the system is working and employees pushed the wrong button. >> it came down to a person pushing the wrong button? >> so there you have it. a person pushed a wrong button. clearly, those 38 minutes of, you kn...

People in hawaii were alerted that police stimissilest to strike them. it was a false alarm. an employee hit the wrong button during shift change. i want to bring in someone currently in hawaii, in the u.s. navy, just moved to hawaii three weeks ago to study to become a chaplain. thank you for joining us. tell us about the moment you got the alert. >> thank you for having me. approximately at 800::00 my pho went off and alerting me that a missile bomb was heading to hawaii. and at the moment i was actually washing my hair and i jumped out of the shower to read the message and try to call my bo...

Simply during shift change. a wrong button apparently. what do you think should be the next step as far as the investigation and making any kind of change? >> one thing i would do, i would put in place one of those second guessing notifications that when you hit it, it ask you one more time ask you sure you want to do that before it goes out. and then if you make a mistake, i'd immediately have a procedure for calling it back. >> is this a situation you and your colleagues on the house foo fofrn affa foreign affairs committee have even discussed? >> we haven't. i think the armed services commi...