In his tweet, Gabbard includes a screenshot of his cell phone, showing the wrong warning sent to everyone in Hawaii. The warning message appeared on Saturday morning local time.
"A missile threat to Hawaii, find a sanctuary, this is not an exercise," the message said.
The message is also broadcast on Hawaiian television. "If
you're outdoors, quickly find refuge in the building, stay indoors,
away from the window If you're on the road, get close to the edge and
look for protection in the nearest building or down on the ground We'll
give you an announcement after the threat has passed. This is not training. "
This warning comes amid the tense relations between the United States and North Korea. In November, North Korea tested missiles despite being banned.
In
the same month, Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency said in an
official statement that they began testing statewide warning systems and
were discussing what we were doing to prepare our region from nuclear
threats.
