vern miagi its add strap tore for the state emergency management agency. >> i accept responsibility for this, this is my team. >> they took responsibility, but there has to be action. there has the to be an investigation. there has the to be correction. >> reporter: hawaii's governor says employee who claims to have pushed the wrong button feels terrible about what happened. the governor doesn't juan aent more practicing of the alert system until a full investigation is done. when it is complete the governor wants two people to now be involved in pressing that button. elaine. >> david begnaud. thank you. next saturday marks one year since president trump took office. a new cbs news poll out today shows 35% of americans think the country overall its better off now than it was a year ago. 43% say things are worse. 21% say things are about the same. the president is spending the holiday weekend at his resort in florida. errol barnett is there. >> reporter: cbs polling found 70% of americans say they support allowing the children of undocumented immigrants known as dreamers to stay in the c

. >> vern miagy said one of his employees clicked the wrong button twice. he was supposed to click the one for drill. instead, he clicked the real thing. this was the alert heard across the island. >> a missile launched. this is not a drill. >> with -- all due respect, are you sure this is an accident? >> yes. i know the valid. -- individual. >> but why did he hit it twice? >> the man who has worked for the agency for 10 years was sitting here whether he pushed the wrong button. he realized within the first few minutes that hoo had made a mis -- that he had made a mistake. but it took 38 minutes to get the alert out saying it was a false alarm. >> congresswoman was one of the first to correct the error on twitter. >> 38 minutes of terror for the people of hawaii before this message went out saying false alarm. >> reporter: people were confronted with this question. what would you do if this were the real thing. >> wake-up call. wait a minute. i don't know what to do. our opportunity is to reach out and get the information to the people. >> reporter: the gov

back from break is again, the hawaii emergency management agency, the head, the administrator, vern miagiing it was his fault personally. taking responsibility. we don't know exactly whether or who made the decision, how the error happened specifically as his agency as this state agency worked to put out the emergency alert that did show up on thousands of phones across the state and potentially across the united states as those who may have registered phones in the state of hawaii and then 15 minutes later, that is when the hawaii ema, again, which vern miagi is the administrator for, then sent out a tweet at 1:20 or rather 8:20 local time that said, no missile threat to hawaii. so reversing what you see on the right hand side of your screen right now, the hawaii emergency management agency then saying no missile threat to hawaii. and that's about 15 minutes later. let's bring in barry mccaffrey, nbc news analyst and contributor. general, thanks for being with us. you are in happen lieu lionolul. how did you learn about this news? >> we got a very effective push notification over iphone.

vern miagi is administrator for the state's emergency management agency. >> i accept responsibility for this. this is my team. they made a mistake. >> they took responsibility, but there has to be action. >> reporter: we're inside the center where the mistake happened. it's known as the state warning point. the worker was sitting in this chair when he used that mouse to click the wrong button. he was not fired. in fact, we're told he'll be coming back to work, but he will be reassigned while the investigation into his mistake continues. david begnaud, cbs news, honolulu. >>> tonight the flu season is proving to be one of the worst in a decade. since it started in october 42 people under age 65 have died in california. the same time last year only nine had died. in the bay area alone there are 19 reported flu deaths including six in contra costa county and five in santa clara county. we stopped by this urgent care clinic in san pablo today. they estimate up to 80% of the patients seen this weekend were there because they had some type of flu-like symptoms. it's not too late to get a flu