well, first of all, it certainly wasn t a threat. i love the teachers in my district. my child goes to school in the county. what i really wanted to do was protect them and protect students. unfortunately, this new mandate that the state has imposed takes us from sex education instruction, which i support, involving human reproduction, human physiology and crosses the line and goes way too far into instructing children effectively how to engage in recreational sex. but kids are obviously having sex. i mean, i mean, from all generations, kids have always had sex in high school. you don t prosecute kids for having sex. actually, we do, because it s against the law. and i get referrals frequently on children who are having sexual intercourse and sexual contact. it s against the law in wisconsin. and what i want to make sure is that we don t, a, have more victims because they believe that the teachers are
identify counseling, medical and legal resources for survivors of sexual abuse and assault. now, the schools can decide not to teach the course at all. they re not forced to teach it. and parents can take their kids out of the class. still, the prosecutor says this course teaches kids how to have sex and will lead to sexual abuse of children and to teachers who teach it, they could wind up in jail. let s talk to the district attorney. his name is scott southworth. and coincidentally, he was actually a cnn hero in 2007 after he adopted a child from iraq. scott, you wrote this letter and sent it out to districts in your area. and a lot of your critics say essentially this is a threat to get them not to obey the law, not to decide to teach these sex education classes. why did you send the letter? well, first of all, it certainly wasn t a threat. i love the teachers in my district. my child goes to school in general county. what i really wanted to do was protect them and protect studen
inside the pentagon there are a variety of procedures, protocols to make sure they re absolutely certain about this. when there s a launch from north korea, within minutes, richard, they know the direction of that missile and it s usually within those initial minutes and that boost stage they make a determination whether or not to shoot it down. now, so far they haven t. they have never tried to intercept an incoming missile from north korea or from any other country. most of the intercepts, all of the intercepts we ve had have been from tests but it s usually in that initial phase that the north com figure out and defend the homeland. they re based in colorado. they see something whether it s radar, they have intelligence to know there s been a launch. they figure out its direction. they make that determination in the initial stage whether or not to shoot it down. the ones that have gone those high lofts that we ve seen as late as november from the north koreans they knew pretty quick
so in the statements and the readouts we get from pentagon officials it s that they determined this missile wasn t a threat and because it wasn t a threat, they didn t shoot it down. this of course is an entirely different category and this has to do with the notification system if something does slip through. and do we know in terms of at what point and who notifies the ema, the emergency management alarm system here? it would be pacific command. so within hawaii you have you have north com, now called norad used to be now it s called north com. you have you have a lot of overlapping jurisdictions. but it s usually pacific command. headed by a four star general out there in hawaii. it s his area of responsibility, his aor. it s his mandate. all right. stand by, i know we ll be getting back to you throughout this hour.
say through ten messages that are ready in the system that based on what they hear from various institutions of our government, pacific command potentially in this case, then are implemented. is this message is it preloaded? it looks that way. you know, part of what i m demanding is a deeper understanding of this process, which is run by state government and the hawaii emergency management agency. but i have to tell you that the alert itself, even if it were not in error, was not particularly informative. it didn t even tell people what they ought to be doing. so listen, we just started this notification process or excuse me, this sort of planning process and alert system. right. they don t have it right and i have to tell you i m a normally keep my cool pretty well. right. there is making me angry. members of my family were terrified. a million and a half people across the state of hawaii were