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Checking of how this process is it. this is a frightening thing. many people that this was the real thing. 38 minutes went by with uncertainty. >> bryan llenas, thank you for the update. >> of course some heartbreaking moments of people trying to reach the family on the mainland to call and say something is about to happen. as we move through this afternoon here and figure out, get to the bottom of exactly what happened, the hawaiian governor, david ige, did come out and say was the wrong button that was pushed. some were in a control room. listen. >> it was a procedure that occurred that the ...

Toward the islands of hawaii. jacob, what have you learned since? we talked to you since the reaction to this push alert. now about two hours ago. what is supposed to happen. what have you learned about how all of this transpired? i'm still stuck what we heard from the department of emergency management this may have been something as simple as a wrong button being pushed. >> so that's the key. david the key piece of this, you were told this by a spokesman for the hawaii emergency management agency, live on the air on msnbc. from what he said, if that turns out to be true this was the push of ...

Management agency of hawaii less than 24 hours ago, as he was explaining to me, this system, it went so badly wrong today, is supposed to actual work. to reiterate, the governor's office has confirmed that this was the push of a wrong button by a human being who sits inside, basically in a control room, within a bunker, within diamond head crater here, on the island of oahu, inside hawaii's civil defense. this is a system that's designed to basically notify civil defense, to tell hawaiians to take cover in the event of a detected ballistic missile launch from north korea or elsewhere. this was...

Big fat human error that pressed the wrong button. there isn't much room for error? >> no, there is not. and let me talk about what courtney talked about how this works inside the department of defense. when the united states detects a missile launch let's say from north korea, by our satellites, immediately word would go to u.s. northern command, which is headquartered at peterson air force base in colorado springs, colorado. leadership would convene an emergency conference call with the pentagon through the joint staff through the joint chiefs of staff at the pentagon at the national militar...

I'm david gura. following this breaking news in hawaii on their phones this is not a drill. many minutes followed before a correction to the message. we saw locals in hawaii. law enforcement and legislators in washington trying to establish this was a real threat. the department of emergency management saying no missile threat to hawaii. we heard from hawaii since this was human error. someone there in the department press the wrong button. trying to figure out what happened. covering the pentagon for us. what have you learned, courtney, from officials there at the pentagon? >> so spoken to pe...