false alarm. we are currently investigating. no missile threat to hawaii. trying to spread the message, hawaii s governor retweeted the agency at 8:24 a.m. remember, this started at 8 will:07. tweeting out there is no missile threat. nothing to understand in a tweet like this. 23 minutes after the alarm raised he posted the notice on his facebook page. here is the key moment. 8:45 a.m. hawaii time. emergency management agency finally sent this notice. no missile threat or danger to the state of hawaii. repeat, false alarm. 38 minutes. 38 minutes from the first alert that went out. just look at three key moments one more time. 8:07 a.m. wrong button is pressed. text message goes out to about a million people. at 8:10 a.m., head of emergency management confirms there is no threat. u.s. pacific command tells them no missile inbound to hawaii.
cancellation message prescripted to go out saying it s a false alarm and there is no missile inbound. i have to emphasize that at 8:10 a.m., right after this went out, general logan called pacific command to confirm there was no missile inbound, and that was our priority first to make sure that word got out. the other thing we need to do is expand the notifications protocols to the governor, the mayors, counties, all understand that this is a false we need to make more contacts to notify that this was a false alarm. the other point is contact with the press and the media to make sure this goes out right away also. again, i apologize for this. this is my responsibility, and my team. please, keep in mind that, again, the threat is there. if this comes out you re going to have 12 to 13 minutes of warning for actual event and