when he got the scary news. my wife and daughter and friends and girlfriends were in tears. i m trying to drink a mai tai and running for my life. reporter: garrett from florida is on vacation on the big island. hotel staff told him to shelter in his room. that s the last thing i wanted to hear. i wanted an evacuation plan, like what should we be doing right now? reporter: these tourists were told to seek shelter in the basement of this hotel. i was so scared. reporter: it took almost 40 minutes before the public was told the cell phone alert was a mistake. it happened when a worker at the hawaii emergency management agency hit the wrong button, prompting this apology from the governor. this should not have happened. we are investigating the sequence of events that occurred. an error was made in emergency management. reporter: molly watson is on her way to kauai from sfo. she s glad it was only a false alarm but it really scared her relatives. they were te
they found out 38 minutes later the threat was not real. abc 7 news reporter cornell bernard is live at sfo with reaction to this mistaken alert. reporter: just imagine getting that alert from a missile was on its way. folks heading to hawaii reacting to the news, but first let s hear from the folks who lived through that false alarm. this is where we stayed after we prepared. reporter: valerie turner, who lives on kauai, shows us where she headed with her family after a scary alert on her phone which said, ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii, seek immediate shelter, this is not a drill. i was overwhelmed with the thoughts going through my head, there s a missile coming on our way, i don t know where to go or what to do. reporter: valerie got her kids jacob and leah to a downstairs bathroom. i felt really scared and i ran down the stairs and sat there and prayed to god. reporter: most of hawaii the 2 the alert. ron, who was in the east bay, was on his l
the error. had is where we stayed after we prepared. valerie turner shows us where she headed with her family after getting a scary alert on her phone which said ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii, seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. i was overwhelmed with just the thoughts that were going through my head in that there s a missile coming our way and i don t know what to. she quickly got her two kids to a downstairs bathroom. downstairs and just sat there n and prayed to god. most of hawaii got the same frightening alert. ron who lives in the east bay was on the last dave his vaon when he got the scary news. my wife and daughter and her friend, her girlfriends were in tears. i m here trying to drink a my tie and i m going to have to be running for my life. this man is on vacation on the big island. hotel staff told him to shelter in his room. that s the last thing i want to hear. i want an evation evacuation plan. these tourists were told t
in a few spots. high clouds will be passing through this evening. we have some rain on the way. it looks like the rain will hold off until monday night. i ll have the details with a wet weather pattern headed our way. carolyn? frances, thank you. a big rig caught on fire early this morning shutting down part of interstate 238. one lane is still closed. abc news was in hayward this morning where firefighters tackled this fire on the northbound side of the freeway near the 14th street on-ramp. chp says the semi truck caught fire around 2:45 this morning. lane 3 is the one that s closed as firefighters clean up the mess. developing news. a magnitude 7.1 earthquake has struck off the coast of peru this morning. it happened at 1:18 our time. new video shows people standing on higher ground away from buildings for safety. photos show others sifting through rubble. there have been no reports of deaths or damage. officials say there is no longer a tsunami threat. hawaii residen
good morning, everyone. i m carolyn tyler. thanks for joining us on this sunday, january 14. let s start with a quick look at the weather with our meteorologist francis who is in this morning for lisa argen. we re starting to see a break in the cloud cover now, but san jose less than a mile visibility. here s a live shot in san jose, and here s what you can expect. we ll still be dealing with the fog and low clouds over the next few hours, but plenty of afternoon sunshine with temperatures above average. in the 60s, even some upper 60s once again. sunset at 5:13. enjoy the sunset while you can. we ll see increasing clouds tonight making way for some rain tomorrow. i ll have the timing of when it will arrive, coming up. carolyn? francis, thank you. a big rig carrying diesel fuel caught on fire this morning shutting down part of highway 238. abc 7 news was in hayward this morning where firefighters tackled this fire on the northbound side of the freeway near the 14th stre