ajournalist in honolulu. ukip has suspended the girlfriend of its party leader, henry bolton, after she reportedly made racist remarks about prince harry's fiancee, meghan markle. the mail on sunday has published text messages allegedly sent byjo marney that include derogatory comments about ethnic minorities. dan johnson reports. he has only been ukip leader since last september, and it emerged just a few days ago that henry bolton had left his wife. forjo marney, a former glamour model, who is 30 years younger. this morning, the mail on sunday has printed text messages sent byjo marney. in them, she said that meghan markle had a tiny brain, that she would taint the royal family and that black people were ugly. when a reply was sent suggesting that these comments may be racist, she said, so what? and that she didn't want other races invading her culture. in a statement, jo marney said... ukip confirmed jo marney has been suspended. the party leader said last night that he didn't want to comment. talks aimed

joining us now msnbc jacob in honolulu. what happened on waikiki beach? what was the reaction when thoughts began to process what was going on? >> reporter: i have to tell you, david, i'm here on assignment for nbc left field digital video unit been here the last couple of days shooting a story about what happens in the event of a nuclear attack. i was litter i in the room yesterday at hawaii civil defense where they would pick up the phone if the pacific command were to make the call to say there is inbound missile hand they would sound the sirens. i was without my phone at the time this all happened. actually down on waikiki beach. and it didn't get to that point. there was no siren sounded. it was business as usual. down on waikiki beach. but the minute i got, frankly, out of the water, become onto shore, and started talking to people, i realized, and a colleague here that's with me from nbc left field push alert on the phone. >> i did not. but i know many hawaiians did. it did not get to the point where hawaii emergency management decided they needed

pacific command which is based there in honolulu. when and if they do get that call saying we do have a missile inbound and deploy an emergency management plan. now the reality is that a bli ballistic missile coming from north korea maybe a nuclear weapon and what a civilian populus can do in the event of a nuclear strike. this will require fiofficials t think long and hard. at this point we don't think the north korea has ability to mount a weapon on intercontinental ballistic missile. we do think they do have a icbm that can go hawaii and western part of the united states. we don't know if they can do a conventional nuclear and go reenter into the atmosphere. so i think it is important to note that hawaii is really an epicenter of u.s. military activity. we not only have pearl harbor, we have squadron of f 22s. we have the pacific fleet. and aircraft carriers there. we have marine base. we have enormous military presence. it is concentrated right there on that very small island of course not even the largest island in the hawaiian

we've been getting more on this from journalist believe the why news in honolulu he described the panic that broke out as the alert was sent out there were students running on the university campus going towards shelter there were people that were in waikiki they were going towards the basements lot of the people that were staying here didn't know what to do tell employees instructed them to go down to the lower areas where many were waiting and terrified only to learn that forty minutes later the all clear was given journalists believe me that talking to us earlier from honolulu time now to catch up with some of the other news making headlines around the world in northern portugal at least eight people have died and dozens injured offer a fire in a community center local media say the blaze started when a heating device exploded in the town of town dana said people have been attending a con game tournament that. protesters in south africa have been vandalizing several h. and m. stores off of the swedish retail giant used a controversial picture of the black lips. and chin and issued an

well we've been getting more on all this from much analysts believe how or why news in honolulu he described the panic broke out as the yellow was sent out there were students running on the university of hawaii campus going towards shelter there were people that were in waikiki they were going towards the basements lot of the people that were staying here didn't know what to do otello employees instructed them to go down to the lower areas where many were waiting and terrified only to learn that forty minutes later the all clear was given journalists believe me they're talking to us so they are from honolulu ok time to catch up with some of the other news making headlines around the world former soldier chelsea manning looks set to run for a seat in the u.s. senate representing the state of maryland federal election filings show that the transgender rights activist is seeking the democratic party's nomination for president barack obama granted manning clemency while she was serving a thirty five year prison sentence for leaking classified data. in northern portugal at least eight people hav

he has our report tonight from honolulu. >> reporter: it was pandemonium in paradise after that alert was sent to phones and broadcast on television. >> a missile may impact on land or sea within minutes. >> reporter: shocked tourists and locals worried they were minutes away from nuclear annihilation. >> the hotel staff came and told my parents, seek shelter, you only have 12 minutes. >> it was hard to stay calm when you don't know what's happening. >> reporter: families huddled in their closet during and after the alert went out. staying closely glued to their cell phones. >> people are hiding in the h3 tunnel. running to the mountains with their families. >> reporter: today members of congress are demanding answers on why it took 38 minutes for a correction to be texted out. twice the time it would take for a missile to reach hawaii from north korea. >> those responsible for this happening need to be held accountable and making sure this cannot, it cannot happen again. >> reporter: the fcc chairman called the false alert absolutely unacceptable and has launched an investigation. ye

an international golf competition was about to tee off in honolulu when the message was sent out. no—one knew one thing, as far as what to do, where to go. you know, a lot of people here in honolulu are not, they don't live here, on vacation or whatever, so we didn't know where to go. and that is being echoed around hawaii, with many people realising that if this had been real, the consequences would have been catastrophic, partly because many people don't have an emergency plan. a federal investigation has been launched, and the emergency alerts now require a two—person sign off before they can be issued. and while thousands say they've been left traumatised, for others, ignorance was bliss. president trump has denied being a racist in the wake of a row about derogatory comments he reportedly made about haiti, el salvador, and countries in africa, during a meeting on immigration at the white house. no. no, i'm not a racist. i'm the least racist person you have ever interviewed, that i can tell you. the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has called president trump's middle ea

we've been getting moral this from journalist believe in the at home why news in honolulu he described the panic for us that broke out as the alert was sent out there were students running on the university campus going towards shelter there were people that were in waikiki they were going towards the basements lot of the people that were staying here didn't know what to do tell employees instructed them to go down to the lower areas where many were waiting and terrified only to learn that forty minutes later the all clear was given journalists believe me that talking to us from honolulu ok we're going to catch up now with some of the other news making headlines around the world former soldier chelsea manning looks set to run for a seat in the u.s. senate representing the state of maryland federal election filing shows the transgender rights activist is seeking the democratic party's nomination for president barack obama granted manning clemency while she was having a thirty five year prison sentence for leaking classified data. rescuers have recovered the bodies of two more crew membe

he has our report tonight from honolulu. >> reporter: it was pandemonium after the alert was sent to phones and broadcast on television. >> a missile may impact on land or sea within minutes. >> reporter: shocked tourists and locals worried they were minutes away from nuclear annihilation. >> the hotel staff came and told my parents, seek shelter, you only have 12 minutes. >> it was hard to stay calm when you don't know what's happening. >> reporter: families huddled in the closet during and after the alirtd went out. >> people are hiding the h 3 tunnel. running to the mountains with their families. >> reporter: today members of congress are demanding answers on why it took 38 minutes far correction to be texted out. twice the time it would take for a missile to reach hawaii from north korea. >> those responsible for this happening need to be held accountable and making sure this cannot, it cannot happen again. >> reporter: the fcc chairman called the false alert absolutely unacceptable and has launched an investigation. yesterday, governor david egay took responsibility. >> today's

at the honolulu department of emergency management. what he has to say. here he is, governor of hawaii. >> good afternoon. today is a day that most of us will never forget. a day when many in our community thought that our worst nightmare might actually be happening. a day when many frantically tried to think about the things that they would do if a ballistic missile launch would happen. i know firsthand that what happened today was totally unacceptable and many in our community were deeply affected by this, and i'm sorry for that pain and confusion that anyone might have experienced. i am, too, very angry and disappointed that this happened. we are doing everything that we can immediately to ensure that it never happens again. you know, we have spent the morning with general logan and those involved with emergency management and their teams, and i have directed them to make the changes necessary to ensure that a false alarm will not happen. we are working to evaluate everything in the sequence of today's activities to make sure that w

will carr is live in honolulu with the latest. will? >> trace, they're trying to return to a sense of normalcy here. there's a martin luther king parade going on behind me. we're more than 48 hours removed from this botched text. the governor continues to apologize. that's something that really seems to have resonated with president trump. >> i love that they took responsibility. they took total responsibility. but we're going to get involved. their attitude and what they want to do is terrific. they took responsibility. they made a mistake. >> before that, the employee at the emergency management agency has been reassigned while the investigation continues. we learned that they put new protocols in place having two people sign off on future text alerts. some question why the state and not the military would be handling a text alert like this to begin with. >> you know the panic, the fear that hit our residents as well as our visitors that were here? it's unexcusable. it's a mistake. >> there will be both state and federal investigation

david begnaud, cbs news, honolulu. >>> let's take a live look outside. the rain is expected to hit the north bay first tonight. we are looking forwards marin now. a bit hazy at this time. we'll check in with neda for more. >> definitely is hazy out there. can't even see the golden gate bridge. we are seeing a little more particulate matter in the air. high-def doppler showing the rain. well to the north of us. but it has made landfall. all morning, it was off the coast. you can see it right there. still north of yuky a. but redding, red bluff, chico, expected to get rain. and we'll see this work its way down, further south toward the bay. also, of course, the ocean is pretty active. pretty big swells. up to 10-foot swells. the surf is up today. remember tomorrow, we have a high surf advisory in effect. and the rainfall, especially going to impact the north bay. but it's not going to be too big of a storm. the rest of us may just get a few hundredths of an -- few hundredths of an inch. right now, temperatures look like this in the mid- to upper 50s. 59. i

let's go to jacob soboroff in honolulu, just after 8:00 a.m. as a matter of fact, it's 8:09 precisely. 24 hours and 2 minutes after this happened. scary scene yesterday. how about today, how is it shaping up, jacob? >> yeah, after the pandemonium of yesterday, today seems like business as usual here in hawaii. people are back out on the water, enjoying their walks on the beach. the one thing that you might notice is the front page of the honolulu star, the local paper here, has a pretty recognizable, on-point headline, oops. false alarm triggers mass panic. outraged citizens could take it out on the governor in the upcoming election. this was a very traumatic day for a lot of people yesterday. they have an early warning system in place here based on the rising tensions between president trump and kim jong-un, the leader of north korea. they put the risk of an actual ballistic missile attack pretty low, frankly, below hurricanes and tsunamis, things they prepare for here, but that did not stop what state officials are calling a very critical hum

will carr is live in honolulu with the latest. hi, will. reporter: hey, arthel. residents are here trying to figure out how this could happen. and even afterwards why it would take 40 minutes to let everybody know that this was a false alarm. take a look at the text alerts that residents got just after 8:00 a.m. on saturday morning. it reads, ballistic missile threat, inbound to hawaii. seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. this sparked panic. residents believing that north korea sent a missile that would take 30 minutes to hit the state. we spoke to the congresswoman who believes this type of alert should be in the hands of the military moving forward >> the panic and fear that hit our residents as well as our visitors that were here, it's inexcusable because it's a mistake. reporter: part of the problem is people had no idea where to go or what to do. we had video of one family trying to put their daughter into the sewer. others tell us they wanted to be as close as possible to loved ones. >> we realized we have no idea really what we're supposed to do.

and international golf competition was about to tee off in honolulu when the message was sent out. no one knew one thing as far as what to do, where to go. lot of people here in honolulu and not living here, here on vacation, so we didn't know where to go. that has been echoed around hawaii, many people realising that if this had been real consequences would have been catastrophic partly because many people don't have an emergency plan. a federal investigation has been launched and the emergency works now require a 2—person sign off to be issued. and while thousands say they have been left traumatised, for others, ignorance was blessed. —— ignorance was bliss. our other top story. two of the world's leading fashion photographers, have been suspended from working for vogue and other magazines owned by the publishing house conde nast. the new york times has published a series of allegations against mario testino, seen here and bruce weber, that they sexually harassed young male models.they both deny the claims. adina campbell reports. he is one of the royalfamily ‘s famous ph

the employee who made that mistake has now been reassigned, and david begnaud is in honolulu. >> reporter: the agency that made the mistake says it's receiving threats after the chaos and confusion that sent people panicking. this little girl was lowered into a manhole. 5,500 people called 911. >> it was a mistake on our part, and i regret the stress and concern and worry that people went through. >> reporter: hawaii's emergency management administrator vern miyagi says an employee clicked the wrong button-- twice. he was supposed to select the option for drill, but he clicked the real thing. at 8:07 am local time, this alert of a ballistic missile threat was issued by the state emergency management agency. >> take immediate action. >> reporter: for what felt like an eternity, islanders heard this: >> a missile may impact on land or sea within minutes. this is not a drill. >> reporter: within three minutes the person who made the mistake realized it, but it would take 38 minutes to send out a correction. we went to see where the mistake happened, the hawaii emergency management agency, wh

an international golf competition was about to tee off in honolulu when the message was sent out. no—one knew one thing, as far as what to do, where to go. a lot of people here in honolulu are not going to live here, on vacation or whatever, so we didn't know where to go. and that is being echoed around hawaii, with many people realising that if this had been real, the consequences would have been catastrophic, partly because many people don't have an emergency plan. a federal investigation has been launched, and the emergency alerts now require a two—person sign off before they can be issued. and, while thousands say they have been left traumatised, for others, ignorance was bliss. our other top story: two of the world's leading fashion photographers have been suspended from working for vogue and other magazines owned by the publishing house conde nast. the new york times has published a series of allegations against mario testino, seen here, and bruce weber, that they sexually harassed young male models. they both deny the claims. adina campbell reports. he is one of the roy

agency, which is tucked inside that bunker in honolulu. with all due respect, are you sure this was an accident? >> yes. i know the individual. this was an accident. not intentional at all. >> there are no windows in the interior of our house. >> reporter: amanda thompson screamed when she read the alert. she and her husband took their kids and hid in a closet. >> we grabbed everything we possibly could, food, water bottles, as i'm crying my eyes out, we called his parents, and i'm crying is hard that they can't understand me. >> reporter: since december 1st, state officials have resumed drills of the attack warning signal used to notify the public of an inbound missile. so here's what's being done to make sure this doesn't happen again: the governor now wants two people to be involved in every drill, and now on the computer screen, there is a false alarm template, so should someone make another mistake, jeff, it shouldn't take 38 minutes to correct it. >> glor: all right, david begnaud, thank you very much. there is also fear that a false

was a north korean nuclear missile about to hit honolulu? actually, no. the whole thing was the result of a stunningly simple mistake. at 8:05am, the test was started. at 8:07am, that's when the trigger is pulled on the test. the wrong button was pushed on this test. it went into an actual event versus a test. there is fury on hawaii that the click of a single button could be responsible for so much panic. that anger is directed towards the state government. i know first—hand that what happened today was totally unacceptable. and many in our community were deeply affected by this. and i am sorry for that pain and confusion that anyone might have experienced. last month, in response to north korea's missile and nuclear tests, hawaii reinstated its warning sirens for the first time since the end of the cold war. at least everyone now knows the system works, but that is small comfort for the millions who thought their world was about to end on saturday. ryan ozawa, a journalist from honolulu, described the moment the alert went off. the standard state—wi

nbc's jacob soberoff is in honolulu for us. good morning. what happened here? >> reporter: yesterday cell phone signals were overloaded as others called their loved ones to say good-bye. it was a chaotic and confusing scene in a place known for its tranquility. just after 8:00 a.m. in hawaii, pandemonium in paradise. hysteria triggered by a false alarm. the terrifying message screamed across cell phones. ballistic missile threat in bound be to hawaii. seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. >> the u.s. pacific command has detected a missile threat to hawaii. >> people started to run. >> the hotel staff came and told my parents, seek shelter. you only have 12 minutes. >> reporter: the mistake was part of an early warning system put into place amid rising tensions between president trump and north korean leader kim jong-un. less than 24 hours before the false alarm we were given an exclusive look at the room. >> if a nuclear missile is launch launched, this is where you'll know? >> they'll receive a message and they'll activate the statewide system. >> where

will carr is live in honolulu. will? >> reporter: and, dana, state leaders are continuing to face an onslaught of criticism after that text alert came out saturday morning and the agency that was actually responsible for the botched text is getting threats we've learned from aggravated residents who really didn't know what was going on. they didn't know where to go, what to do when this was all playing out just after 8:00 a.m. saturday. many thought that the united states and, more specifically, hawaii, was getting a missile attack from north korea. now, the governor has apologized multiple time since. that really seems to have resonated with president trump. >> we hope it won't happen again. people are on edge. hopefully we will solve the problem so they won't have to be so on edge. >> reporter: saturday, so chaotic that some families even tried to put their kids into the sewers during that frantic 40 minutes. we learned the mistake was the result of an employee at the federal emergency management agency that hit a wron

distance from pyongyang to honolulu, 4600 miles. it's clearly a target. >> it is. it is sort of stoning this kind of thing could happen. you think there would be built and redundancies. to prevent precisely this kind of mishap. causing the kind of panic. unfortunately it's no longer just hawaii. the missiles the north koreans are capable of sending our direction can reach the continental united states depending on who analysis you could believe, could potentially reach miami. this is no longer a hawaii issue. it screams for a federal solution, something that has the federal government weighing in before these alerts are sent. >> bret: the president has arrived back at the white house after spending the weekend in florida. this comes as the north and south have continued conversations and talks. north koreans are sending a team to south korea for the olympics. the question is whether we as the u.s. are making any progress getting the north off its nuclear program. >> unclear how much. it's interesting the olympics seem to have sparked a little bit of a detente. the

you join me now from honolulu. you have the story. you were there. you saw the people. obviously a lot of questions to be answered. tell us about being in that command center and how they were preparing for what then went terribly wrong. >> yeah, andrea, it was an extraordinary set of coincidences we were here. our digital video unit was working on a story about preparations for a nuclear attack, what would happen. you're looking at some of our nbc news exclusive footage right now inside that command center. essentially, what is supposed to happen in that room is there are two state warning officers on duty at any time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. if the telephone inside that room rings, it's a very specific secure telephone, and u.s. pacific command is on the other line, they would get a message that would say this is u.s. pacific command, we've detected an inbound ballistic missile threat, you are the intended target. that is the only time ever that the alert that went out is supposed to go out. never in terms of a drill. in fact, the message itself said that t

i completely agree that it is -- >> we are going to leave this program to go to honolulu, hawaii, where lawmakers are holding a news conference on the circumstances with the false alarm on january 13th. this is live on c-span3. >> how this huge error occurred, why it took so long for state officials to announce that this was a false alarm, why some cell phones never received any alerts and what's changed to make sure this never happens again, and i hope we will take positive steps to enact the many lessons learned. now for our part as legislators, i, myself, believe that we should hold ourselves accountable to make sure that when we send our -- in our schools to seek shelter and our people to government buildings to seek refuge that these safe shelters really do provide safe shelter from catastrophe anywhere from a nuclear attack or a hurricane. so with that i welcome the governor, and governor, i thank you for asking us for the opportunity to attend this briefing. governor? >> good morning, members of the house and senate committee. thank you for allowing me to be here today. i appreci

will carr in honolulu with the latest. hi, will. reporter: and trish, state leaders here are continuing to face an onslaught of criticism. we also learned that the agency responsible for that botched text has been receiving threats from aggravated residents who didn't know where to go or what to do when the text alert came out on saturday morning. many thought that north korea was sending a missile in this direction and that it only had 15 minutes possibly left in their lives. now the governor has since apologized multiple times, and that seems to have really resonated with president trump. >> he said it won't happen again. part of it is people are on edge. maybe we'll eventually solve the problem so they won't have to be so on edge. reporter: saturday so chaotic some families tried to put their kids down into the sewer during that frantic 40 minutes or so we learned the mistake was a result of a employee with the emergency management agency in hawaii hitting a wrong button during shift change. that employee has been reassigned whil

cbs news david begnaud is in honolulu, david, good morning. >> good morning, put yourself in the shoes of people walking around the island. alert comes out on cell phone saying there's a missile inbound to hawaii. people were abandoning their vehicles on the freeway. one family put their children in a manhole. and before officials could get out a second alert saying no, no, this is a false alarm, the first alert spread like wildfire on social media. people panicked. the false alarm sent people running in hawaii. frantically searching for cover. the warning came around 8:00 saturday morning, state emergency officials texted it to cell phones, ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii. it's scrolled across televisio televisions. >> a missile may land or sea in minutes. this is not a drill. >> played on radios. >> if you are outdoors, seek immediate shelter in a building. >> kids are crying, nobody really knew what to do. >> when we got the alarm we actually were terrified. >> took more than 30 minutes for officials to let people know that they had made a mistake. and there was no threat

author and scholar reza aslan said an international golf competition was about to tee off in honolulu when the message was sent out. no one knew one thing as far as what to do, where to go. a lot of people here in honolulu are not going to live here, on vacation or whatever, so we didn't know where to go. and thatis so we didn't know where to go. and that is being echoed around hawaii, with many people realising that if this had been real, the consequences would have been catastrophic, partly because many people don't have an emergency plan. a federal investigation has been launched, and the emergency alerts now require a two persons sign off before they can be issued. and while thousands say they have been left traumatised, for others, ignorance was bliss. now it is time for the weather. hello. with a hint of surprise, yes, iam here hello. with a hint of surprise, yes, i am here with some weather as well. wet and windy fear already at there to be had across northern and western britain. that is not the main story of the week. it will turn much colder, snow and the forecast for some a

in honolulu and a big yikes to what folks heard yesterday, including you, who were there on business. are people resting easy after getting their nerves rattled? >> reporter: well, alex, there's a certainly a huge sigh of relief on oahu and throughout the hawaiian islands. cell phone signals were jammed up with people calling their loved ones, literally to say their good-byes. people were running for cover. this all took place at a time, of course, of heightened tensions with north korea between donald trump and kim jong-un. and it had people here very, very startled. take a look. >> all personnel seek shelter immediately. >> reporter: just after 8:00 a.m. in hawaii, pandemonium in paradise. hysteria triggered by a false alarm. the terrifying message screamed across cell phones throughout the state. ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii, seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. >> we've seen people starting to run. >> the hotel staff came and told my parents, seek shelter. you only have 12 minutes. >> um-hum. >> the mistake was part of an early warning system put into place a

abc's jim avila starts us off in honolulu. >> reporter: tonight the veteran technician that sent hawaii into a panic that a ballistic missile was a mere 12 minutes from impact has been removed from the command center and will not be allowed near the button until after retraining. this after hawaiian officials change the way they send out alerts. trying to prevent a repeat human error. >> the u.s. missile command has detected a threat. >> the terrifying warning took 38 minutes to correct. >> if you're outdoors seek immediate shelter. >> reporter: despite officials conceding they knew there was no incoming missile within 3 minutes. >> this is not a drill. >> reporter: the mistake causing chaos like this father to push his daughter down a manhole to save her. others calling loved ones for the last good-bye. >> i wanted to call my wife. and tell her i love her. >> reporter: this lucky family had a house with a world war ii bunker. they used it. piling in for this 2018 threat. >> the part of the message that made my panic was this is not a drill. >> reporter: hawaii's governor said it happen

i'm home in honolulu. i was going about my business about to leave for a speaking engagement and my wife and kids were on their way to the dentist and then my phone just started blowing up and then i began to try to figure out what was going on. well, we know now is there was a human error. what we know now also is that the general received the same text push alert that you know, most people received on their phones, immediately called the pacific command and immediately was able to confirm that there was in fact, not a missile coming towards hawaii. now, the question i have is why then did it take 38 minutes for the state government to get the word out that there was not a missile coming to hawaii? people were across the state absolutely terrified. some shelters in place, some trying to collect their loved ones, businesses shuttering, kids -- i know of a bunch of kids who were asked to shuffle into the locker room at their school. this was an abomination. this did not work. this was a failure of planning

actually, korean missile about to hit honolulu 7 actually, no, korean missile about to hit honolulu? actually, no, the whole thing was simply a mistake. at this point in time, we have started the recall of the process. there is theory that the click of a single button could be responsible for so much panic. and that anger is directed towards the state government. what happened today was totally u na cce pta ble. government. what happened today was totally unacceptable. and many in our community were deeply affected by this. and i am sorry for that pain and confusion. that anyone might have experienced. at least eve ryo ne might have experienced. at least everyone now knows that the warning system works. but that small comfort for the millions who got their world was about to end on saturday. ukip has suspended the girlfriend of its party leader, henry bolton after she reportedly made racist remarks about prince harry's fiancee, meghan markle. the mail on sunday has published text messages sent byjo marney that include derogatory comments about ethnic minorities. dan johnson reports.

they also notified the honolulu police department. at 8:12 a.m., they use the alert software to cancel retransmission of the false alert. the cancellation is a downstream to cease retransmission. notably cancellation message does not generate an all clear message or recall messages already transmitted and displayed on mobile phones. from a 13:00 a.m. to a 26 they conducted outreach to county emergency agency in radio and tv stations to inform them the alarm was false. the agencies phone lines became congested with calls from the public asking about the nature of the alert. some calls did not get through. the agency notified the staff to help respond to community inquiries. at 8:20 a.m., they posted that there is no missile threat to hawaii. at 8:24 a.m., the retweeting but there is no missile threat. they stated their unable to do this earlier could see did not know his twitter password. at 8:27 a.m. agency staff met to discuss options to send a corrective option on the wireless emergency alert system. they determine a correction best

in honolulu, 6:00 p.m. in seoul. president trump defending himself over days of controversy over those remarks to describe haitians and african-american. this was thursday. the last night the president pushed back about accusations his words reflect racist believes and lawmakers within the gop, they disagree on whether he used this explosive term at all. >> the president talked about the possibility of a federal shutdown. white house correspondent boris sanchez traveling with the president has more from west palm beach. >> reporter: the president taking a few moments before dinner with house majority leader kevin mccarthy on sunday night to answer reporters questions and he made news on a variety of fronts. having to answer that uncomfortable question that came up this week after the president reportedly made some disparaging remarks about african nations and haitians during a meeting at the white house. he's the president answering the reporter's question, are you a racist. listen to this. >> no, i'm not a ray siff.

vai sikahema is at a hotel near honolulu. vai received that emergency alert on his phone. he told us he and his wife were facing a shelter in place situation. >> it was scary there for about maybe half an hour. they said this would last through a good portion of the day. for everyone to stay safe and be alert on tv and radio. >> we are happy to report vai, his wife, everyone else in hawaii are safe. >>> a philadelphia police officer shot a man in kensington kensington avenue. the man hit is in critical condition this morning at temple university hospital. it's still not clear what led up to the shooting. no one else was hurt. >>> an update on a murder in burlington county we told you about yesterday morning. authorities have now charged two people in connection with that case. 20-year-old shane davis faces a first-degree murder charge and 19-year-old jada face as charge of aggravated assault. police say they hit a man with a shovel and shot and killed him. police say he got into an argument with the couple before he was killed. the couple lives in the same apartment comple

this was a highway side in honolulu showing a frightening correction. how is the white house now responding to all of this? cnn boris sanchez is traveling with the president at west palm beach where the president is spending the weekend. what do we know how the president learned of this and what is he saying now? >> reporter: ana, we are working get clarity on when the president was told about this alarm and when he was told that it was a false alarm. we actually got words from the white house that the president was a his golf course here at west palm beach when the alert first went out. the white house put out a concise statement and here it is. "the president have been briefed on the emergency exercise." the question we have first office when did the president find out and specifically who he was with when this alert is put out. you can imagine we are getting social media alerts about this message that we sent in hawaii and some of our allies and partner in the pacific got words of this alert whether of south korea or a japan and china. did they contr

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this was a highway sign in honolulu showing a frightening correction. so how is the white house now responding to all of this? boris sanchez is in west palm beach where the president is spending the weekend. what is the president saying. >> reporter: right now the white house is not saying much about in false alarm. they did confirm that the president was at his golf course here in west palm beach when the urgent message was first sent out and then later 38 minutes later when we returned that it was a false alarm and then they put out the following statement, the white house writing that the president has been briefed on the state of hawaii's emergency management exercise. this was purely a state exercise. they later clarified and said that it was a state controlled exercise meaning that it was under the purview of officials within hawaii and not any federal agency. the white house though not answering key questions, specifically when was the president briefed, when he found out whether or not he contacted anyone at the pentagon or his national security

the honolulu star advertiser calling out with the headline oopz, wrong button. let's discuss all of this with hawaii state representative. first off, yesterday -- thank you for joining us. good to see you in person. yesterday was all on the telephone when we spoke. i know you are looking for answers as many people are wanding to know how this possibly could have happened. you gave yesterday a very moving and very personal account of what you and your family were going through. how are you today? >> they're fine today. it was very hectic yesterday. trying to take the day off today and take the kids to the beach and relax. >> i think it is easy for people to say it was a mistake so when confronted with your own almost mortality it is shocking to you and young people. so let's get to the business at hand. have you learned why it took so long to send out a correction notification? >> they are saying that the reason it took so long is that they didn't have one drafted. to think that the system we have in place couldn't go out in error is a lack of planning. certainly

david begnaud its in honolulu. >> reporter: 24 hours after the panic in paradise, federal communications officials say hawaii did not have the reasonable processes and safe guard in place to prevent a false alarm warning that a missile was headed for the islands. people ran for their lives saturday. as the text alert lit up cell phones. the warning read, ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii. seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. panicked people looked to police officers for answers. >> we're getting flagged down by a lot of people for that asking where the nearest shelter its. >> reporter: this was the radio alert. >> a missile may impact on land or sea within minutes. this is not a drill. off awe frightened families hilt inists packed this lobby. >> i sent a message to my grand kids. >> of it took 13 minutes for the emergency managen't agency to tweet no missile threat to hawaii. but it took 3 minutes to get out a cell phone alert telling people it was a false alarm. >> it wiis just unacceptable an mind-boggling how it could take so long. >> the congresswoman sent ape tweet

>> we were walking through the streets of honolulu last night. to a large extent, it's business as usual. packed with tourists. it was just 24 hours before that that all this went down. one family was trying to put their daughter down into a sewer. others are trying to hide out in their garage is with their loved ones, not knowing if it could be their last moments together. residents are acutely aware that they could be a target. especially as rhetoric has escalated between the united states and north korea. when you have a text alert like that, it really only raises the level of concern for the people who live here. >> sandra: what a story. thank you for the following up with us from honolulu. >> eric: the winter olympic talks, both sides meeting today. the second time in a week, try to hammer out the details for the north to take part in next month's games that are occurring in south korea. they have agreed in principle to field a unified olympic team. greg palkot live in london. what exactly was discussed in those talks today? >> there was mor

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. >>> will carr is reporting live from honolulu tonight. will? >> reporter: rick, a short time before we came on, a the governor of hawaii profusely apologizing to residents here in hawaii. after the text alert came out after 8:00 a.m. saturday. it read ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii. seek immediate shelter, this is not a deal. text alert sparked panic, residents believing north korea fired a missile from end to end. it would only take 30 minutes to hit the state of hawaii. we spoke to a congresswoman who says this type of alert should not be in the hands of the local government. >> you know the panic, the fear that hit our residents as well as all of our visitors that were here? it's inexcusable. because it's a mistake. >> reporter: part of the problem is people had no idea what to do or where to go. one family trying to put their daughter into the sewer. others want to spend as much time as they could with their loved ones. >> come on, come on, come on. this one is open. a little bit bigger. >> we have absolutely no idea what we're

cnn's sarah sidner joins us from honolulu, i know you just spoke with hawaii's top emergency officials, how do they explain exactly what happened? >> reporter: couple of things now, one of the new bits of information is that the person who was responsible for pressing the ut button if you will and sending out this erroneous alert has been reassigned as this investigation goes under way. but not fired. we also know that the mistake was made during a shift change, during that shift change, there is a lot of testing of these systems right now. the emergency management agency test usually within their own agency, it is not sent out to the public, this time a wrong template was pulled up and the button that says should you send the button or not, yes, was pressed by this officer. that officer again, reassigned. and the head of the agency has come out very strongly, taking full responsibility for the mistake himself. >> from my side, i just want to apologize to the folks because it's my team, my responsibility. it was my fault. but we need to continue understanding and we need to continue pr

jerry chun shing lee traveled back to the states from his home in hong kong with a three day stop in honolulu. in honolulu and virginia, fbi agents accessed his hotel rooms, searched through his suit cases and photographed two small notebooks with hand written entries containing top secret information, including the locations, the telephone numbers and the real names of cia informants and under cover agents working across china. it ap paoeurs that information was provided the chinese authorities who then began the process of disassembling the entire cia u.s. human intelligence network across china. we heard as many as 20 people may have been arrested and perhaps as many as ten were executed, some of them publicly. >> dana: here's one thing i didn't understand in reading it. why did authorities wait so long to arrest him when they knew that he was -- what he was up to as much as six years ago? >> that's the question that former cia director could answer. he was in charge of the agency at the time much of this was going on. we can only speculate. former cia agent peter brooks offers this insigh

last night, the flight took off from auckland, new zealand in 2018 and arrived in honolulu in 2017. so they left off 12:05 january 1st, arrived 9:45 a.m. december 31st. they got to celebrate the new year twice. >> the thing about that, they didn't schedule it that way. ten minutes. they were supposed to take off in 2017. they flew several hours and a year back. >> yeah, weird. and got to party it up like it's 2017 again. all over again. >>> okay, so up there in watertown, massachusetts, a man proposed to his girlfriend using an unusual little location. there she is, all smiles after the proposal. i assume she said yes. this is eliani and bob who will never forget new year's, they were going to an event in boston, and he didn't know the address, so they pulled into a bank parking lot when she looked up and saw on the billboard there, eliani will you -- >> just a random billboard. >> just a random billboard. >> she looks pumped, they both do. congratulations to the happy couple. >>> we all know you're very, dance. >> not good. >> we have finally found your competition. >> oh, wait. >>

mayor of the city of honolulu. good to see. mayor of a town just north of ottawa, the capital city. >> mayor of edmonton, canada. mayor of niagara falls, new york. organization founded by the late richard daley, consisting of 131 cities on the u.s. and canadian side on the great lakes. working on environmental issues. >> tim keller, brand-new mayor of albuquerque, new mexico. ethan berkowitz, mayor of anchorage. >> mayor of dubuque, iowa. >> mayor of knoxville, tennessee. >> good morning. mayor of lancaster, pennsylvania. mayor of the city of key west. >> mayor of santa monica, california. >> mayor of richmond, california. >> mayor of bonn, germany. mayor of des moines, iowa. bedford,of new massachusetts, and chair of the energy committee. i'd like to thank everyone for being here. our work here supports. i would like to turn now to my mary mcardle, for some brief comments. >> thank you. it is an honor to be with all the. as mayors, we recognize increasingly in a nation in which we have seen in which the paris accords have seen