just a few months ago i was there at pacom.ice in south korea just about one of one of those missiles had gone through. so the tension is very high. and you know, mistakes do happen. obviously what we need to know is how this mistake occurred and what sort of steps can be taken to prevent this from ever taking place again. but i think it's also important while the federal government was not responsible for the error, it's important to take this moment to remind ourselves how important it is to not escalate tensions. and to not put ourselves in the position where god forbid another mistake or something like this would occur and there would be a response based on heightened tensions that maybe are precipitated by comments by this president that could cause something to take place, a dangerous situation to be far worse than it should. i hope that if the president takes anything from this, number one it's that we correct the mistake, but secondly, that he think about how close we can be to something really bad going on, something r

no notification from pacom came. we simulate that. based on that simulation our staff at the state warning point will open up the screen, go through the checklist and make the initiation. there is a -- again, it's a human error. there is a screen that says, are you sure you want to do this? okay? that's already in place. now, we have one person, human error, and that thing was pushed anyway. >> so there was -- by having redundancy -- >> also pressed yes? >> yes. >> there was a few-step process, press yes in both situations? >> right. >> so having redundancy, two people, 12 to 13 minutes to alert the public. how much-o much of a delay -- >> no delay. right now the process would be ots, the person in charge of the warning point, that shift, would, the one to push it or oversee making sure there are two people there when pushing the button. >> there was a redundancy in place then. someone clicks, sends out a mass message and someone also clicks to say, yes? >> it's the same person. >> can you explain why, then, he did it twice? >> i can'

wasn't ready to make the commitment to take that power away from the state government and give it to pacom, u.s. pacific command, that is supposed to alert for the call of the sirens to be sent out. i'm sure that's one of the issued addressed in the days ahead. >> jacob soboroff thanks so much. kelly is in florida near mar-a-lago. we heard from the president already via twitter. why have we yet to hear from him on the hawaiian missile scare? >> reporter: it is an opportunity for the president if he wants to speak on this issue. we know how easy it is for him to communicate through twitter. he has not done so yesterday or today as of late. if we look back over sort of the tweeting history of the president, we have seen other examples where there was an event, it might be criminal, natural disaster, some kind of a crisis, and in this case, of course, the crisis was about the fear, not the actual event. the president does not tweet about these issue answer uses his twitter feed for his own more than personal concerns, sometimes grievances, policy ideas or promoting things that he thinks he ne

couldn't get on the phone with emergency management agencies and they couldn't get on the phone with pacom. the governor had charles getting through to dod. i was having difficulty getting through to the governor. what do we do about the phone line problem when everybody is trying to communicate with each other. we need to have phone conversations and seems to me the fcc and their investigatory process to the family for problem not just in terms of the systems for communicating with each other in termsms of who called whom but also literally people who really need some -- were not in a position to do so at the technical level. see that that's something we can look at this part of the investigation. >> thank you. >> thank you senator schatz. senator klobuchar. >> thank you very much mr. chairman and i want to thank senator schatz for his leadership. i can imagine what that it's been like in your state. i've had many minnesotans who like to go to hawaii. i wonder why and my director was there when this happened and told the story of how he was in a hotel condo with no baseman and didn't know