porter who has since been fired. top navy admiral in the u.s. pacific command testified north korea wants to conquer the south and unify the peninsula under the rule of kim jong un. admiral harry harris raising concerns about china s growing military and cyberspace capabilities. big stories we are covering obviously in washington, but this story in florida taking all of the air out of the news coverage. the sheriff and broward county moments ago filling in some of the blanks. this incident truly makes me sick to my stomach. it s horrible. it s catastrophic. we are saddened to say 17 people lost their lives. 12 people within the building.
a state emergency employee sent the false alarm this way. quote, from a drop-down menu on a computer program, he saw two options, test missile alert and missile alert. he was supposed to choose the former. big difference. as much of the world now knows, he chose the latter, an initiation of a real life missile alert. this is what folks in hawaii saw live on their television as the alert went out. 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 are indoors, stay indoors. if you are 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 shelter in a building or lay on the floor. we will announce when the threat has ended. this is not a drill. so the way that differs from a test of the emergency broadcast system is basically
missile alert. this is what folks in hawaii saw live on their television as the alert went out. [ tone ] 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 are in indoors, stay indoors. if you are 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 shelter in a building or lay on the floor. we will announce when the threat has ended. this is not a drill. so the way that differs from a test of the emergency broadcast system is basically the lay on the floor, and this is not a drill part. for 38 harrowing minutes on a saturday morning, upwards of a million people had reason to believe they might be living out their last moments on the great planet earth. finally a follow-up alert was sent out making clear there was no threat, but the whole false
public. reporter: the bitter infighting is stalling talks over a potential immigration deal that would protect d.r.e.a.m.ers. you can t have an immigration compromise is everybody is out there calling the president a racist. reporter: the president declaring sunday morning that daca is probably dead, but later leaving the door open. we re ready, willing, and able to make a deal on daca, but i don t think the democrats want to make a deal. reporter: the stalemate raising concerns that a deal will not be reached before friday s budget deadline to avoid a government shutdown. i for one will not vote for government funding until we get a deal on daca. there shouldn t be a shortcut. reporter: and addressing this. the u.s. pacific command has detected a missile threat to hawa hawaii. a missile may impact on land or sea sa in minutes.
that was a state thing, but we re going to now get involved with them. i love that they took responsibility. they took total responsibility. but we re going to get involved. their attitude and their what they want to do, i think it is terrific. they took responsibility. they made a mistake. sara sidner joins us now from honolulu where it is still dark. sara, what is the very latest? reporter: look, the emergency management administrator and the governor both talked to me, they told me we have made changes immediately, but this did happen, and it did create panic and fear across the hawaiian islands. the u.s. pacific command has detected a missile threat to hawaii. reporter: at 8:07, the warning message went out on television, on radio, and via text message saying ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii, seek shelter, this is not a drill.