are presumed dead in this accident. chinese media saying a large amount of oil from the tanker is no burning as you can see in the surrounding waters. arthel: missile alert set folks into a frenzy in hawaii yesterday with some people seeking shelter in the sewers. here s the timeline. a mosler went out to hundreds of of thousands of cell phones around 8:07 local time. 13 minutes later, the ema tweeted there was no missile threat. u.s. pacific command reiterating around 8:35 but it would take 40 minutes after the initial alert for the hawaii emergency management to send a message to cell phones confirming a false alarm. hawaii s governor yesterday explaining the delay. no automated way to send a false alarm cancellation.
ballistic missile to hawaii. that alert triggered 38 minutes of panic and confusion that i m sure felt like days before it was eventually corrected. now federal and state officials are launching their own investigations into what exactly went wrong there. joining me now from honolulu is nbc s jacob soboroff. what are you learning from this? reporter: it s fascinating. to mention the 38 minutes, that s the amount of time it would take for an intercontinental ballistic missile to get from north korea to the hawaiian islands. it was a period of sheer panic and terroror for the people here over the course of that 38-minute stretch, and it was all triggered, according to state officials, by an inadvertent push, a double-click of a button that is only supposed to be clicked in respond to a call from u.s. pacific command here in hawaii. that s not what happened at all.
need to be held accountable, we got an inside look because we re on assignment here. we happened to be here yesterday when this all took place. we re on assignment looking at the potential implications of a nuclear attack on korea. the footage you re looking at is our exclusive footage inside the bunker where the alert was sent from. we happened to be there with the hawaii emergency management agency just a day before this happened. there are systems operators in the room that are responsible for pushing that button. they re only supposed to push that button if they get a call from paycom, u.s. pacific command. they would be the ones to detect the incoming missile. that, of course, did not happen. where there was no missile, but that message was sent out in error. it s people in those rooms, the people who work inside that bunker here in hawaii who ultimately are going to have to answer a lot of tough questions about what went wrong in the state s early warning sign, designed to protec
the wake of the latest controversial marks. can politicians come together to make a deal? fake news, president trump continues to attack the news media in a barrage of tweets. the president claims he was misquoted about his relationship with kim jong un. the social media storm in the aftermath of a false alarm in highway that sent people running for cover. the u.s. pacific command has detected a missile threat to hawaii. a missile may impact on land or sea in minutes. this is not a dral. why some are calling on the president to take some responsibility for the scare, but in the hours after that false alarm, all we got was this tweet from president trump about fake news and attacking main stream media. they don t really want it, they want to talk and take separately needed money away from our military. his words on twitter this
questions about whether president trump will face any political consequences from it. and we begin with new details out of hawaii, following that false missile alert. the ftc now opening an investigation into the mistaken warning, which led terrified residents and tourists to think the end was imminent. they got their push alerts on their cell, and for the first time this morning, we re hearing the audio recording played on television, and radio. the u.s. pacific command has detected a missile threat to hawaii. a missile may impact on land or sea within minutes. this is not a drill. if you win doors, stay indoors. if you were outdoors, seek immediate shelter in a building. remain indoors well away from windows. if you are driving, pull safely to the side of the road and seek schettner a building or lay on the floor. we will announce when the threat has ended. a frightening message indeed. nbc s sarah dallof has the story. reporter: for nearly 40 minutes saturday, residents and