another jump to a hurricane in the next few hours but i want to show how busy it is, not only in the atlantic, couple invests that will probably become hurricanes but in the pacific, olivia could impact the why. is florence, tropical storm but we do expect it to be a major hurricane again. southwest of the muted and potentially affecting the east coast in the next 7 to 10 days. here s your tropical storm model, pretty good agreement for the next 2 or 3 days and then we don t quite know what happens. bottom line is if you live across the east coast, pay close attention and get your hurricane plan in gear. this is the euro model showing impact next thursday to the southeast but still not sure yet but be prepared. here s the eastern pacific, we have norman moving northward and olivia could impact hawaii, very
implemented since this mistake happened this morning. among them more redundancy. one person couldn t click twice to make it happen. from the administrator of the hawaii emergency management system, is that enough? what more do you think needs to happen here? is this something that should be in the purview of the state government of hawaii? well, first of all, i m confident that the states should handle civil defense. there are thousands of different situations. so counties and states and cities ought to have their own internal system. that s the right way to go. you can t have the federal government doing it. but i must admit, throughout the entire control system on u.s. nuclear weapons, we have several systems in place. one s called the two-man rule. so there s no time at any point dealing with a nuclear weapon,
and his deputy were the individuals with the president telling him what played out in hawaii. from the white house today, limited information. they told us about the president being notified. explained that this was two their understanding a false alarm at the state level, and that s been about it. the president spent part of his day at one of his golf courses. played coug eed golf. had a separate meeting about nafta, the mexican trade negotiation, and what went wrong as a state level, we understand it to be a state responsibility at this point in hawaii. no discussion of the concerns, hawaiians felt during that intervening period nothing else. the president has used twitter to talk about one of his frequent concerns of late. a book written about him that s gotten a lot of attention, that he criticized, but no use of his twitter feed to speak directly to the people of hawaii or those
hundreds of people, if not a million people on the island of hawaii, particularly at oahu. we were on the ocean, 10:00 a.m. when the alert went out and did not hear sirens. there are 394 sirens, situated throughout the islands of hawaii that are supposed to go off in the event of an actual nuclear missile attack inbound to hawaii. of course, the full system was not activated. the text message part of the system, i ve seen some reports of the television alert also being activated. i talked to the center from hawaii earlier on msnbc. he says million until further notice, like to see a suspension of the system that tests those nuclear warning sirens until they can figure out what happened, why it happened and who set off the alarm and maybe in the press conference we ll get those answers. the governor scheduled to hold a news conference at any hoemt.
to weigh in, is this responsibility going to rest in the hands still at the state government here of vern miyagi and the people who work for him inside diamondhead crater a stone s throw away from where we are now. thanks for your time. and kov covering the pentagon here. ask about the military response, the role of the military calling for an alert like the one we got today. walk us through the chain of events as it s supposed to happen and your sense of what went wrong? reporter: the pentagon is not really saying what went wrong. they re deferring to u.s. pacific command and beyond that, letting the hawaii civil authorities there respond to what happened here. i mean, walking through exactly how the process is supposed to work. the u.s. military would detect some sort of a missile being launched somewhere in the world. most think talking about hawaii or guam, a threat would be coming from north korea.