Sentences with phrase «false missile alert»

-- The FCC, meanwhile, is close to issuing its final report on the Hawaii false missile alert, a public safety bureau official testified.

Rosenworcel will note that the plan in Hawaii, where a false missile alert was sent earlier this year, was over a decade old.

The hearing, which featured members of Hawaii's congressional delegation and witnesses from FEMA, the FCC and the Department of Defense, focused on the false missile alert broadcast throughout Hawaii in January.

The only downside of our stay was the false missile alert that caused everyone a lot of stress.

Investigators are blaming human error for the panic - inducing false missile alert in Hawaii last month.

His comments came after Hawaii issued a false missile alert that provoked panic in the US state and highlighted the risk of an «accidental nuclear war» with North Korea, a point made in the Pope's «state of the world» speech.

The Federal Communications Commission said the employee who sent a false missile alert to Hawaiians on January 13 thought an attack was imminent.

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Emergency authorities reversed the warning with a second mobile alert sent 38 minutes later confirming «no missile threat or danger» and «false alarm.»

Earlier this month, a false alarm that a ballistic missile was headed for Hawaii sent the islands into a panic, with people abandoning cars and preparing to flee their homes until officials said the cellphone alert was a mistake.

The Hawaii emergency management worker who sent a false alert last month warning of an imminent missile attack says he was convinced the threat was real and «100 percent sure» he was doing the right thing.

Following a stunning false alert that Hawaii was the target of a ballistic missile threat, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said the incident underscores the need for Trump to directly negotiate with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on the rogue nation's nuclear weapons.

The emergency alert about an incoming «ballistic missile threat» that jolted Hawaiians awake Saturday morning was a false alarm caused by someone hitting the «wrong button,» Gov. David Ige said.

Nuclear experts are warning, using some of their most urgent language since Trump took office, that Hawaii's false alarm, in which state agencies alerted locals to a nonexistent missile attack, underscores a growing risk of unintended nuclear war with North Korea.

5 lessons from the Ballistic Missile Alert in Hawaii On Saturday, January 13th, 2018 citizens of Hawaii had a big scare when a false alert went out over thousands of phones claiming a nuclear attack was imminent.