 This is Tim Apachele with Think Tech Hawaii. What's on your mind Hawaii? I'm here with Steve and Steve you you got the text about the incoming ballistic missiles and Most importantly that this was not a drill. I sure did What was your first thought very frightening traumatized scared didn't know if if I was going to die the second or Die the next five minutes didn't know what if my family would ever find out. How would they feel about it? It was very very traumatizing were you upset? Were you upset now that you found out that? According to the emergency management that one person with one button caused this kind of panic. I was beyond upset I'm freaking angry furious to know that this ain't a joke. I mean, this is messing around with people's lives I mean from what I saw out on the streets. It was a pure chaos confusion It was everyone was running scared out their mind looking in the air Where specifically were you when you saw this text message? I was right across the street from the Alamona Mall and I've seen just a people speeding running red lights Everyone was running Security didn't know what to do. Everyone was just a total confusion What you're describing as a Hollywood movie set. You know that right? Oh, yeah, it seemed like I was we were in a movie Watching a movie, but this was real life in Hawaii Well, now that you know that it was an error and Allegedly one person with one button caused this do you buy that? No, I don't and you know at me Living Hawaii as a citizen. I won't answers, you know, this is not funny You know to to to wake up to hear this to come downstairs to look out of your window And you see it was a state of confusion a panic people running scared Didn't know what to do. No one had answers and then I turn on the news and I hear that same emergency broadcast This is not a drill. This is not a drill. Please seek shelter And I'm like I live on 11th floor is this shelter or is this building go get knocked down, you know when the missile hit? I want answers. I'm angry. I'm upset and It was very traumatizing and then it's it's something I'm gonna remember for the rest of my life Who do you think's ultimately responsible for this mess up the person who hit that button? I think they should be fired. I think they should they think the community Should they should owe the community apology as well as we won't answer How could this happen? Why did it happen and it took what? 15 20 minutes just to say that this was a test like like like someone's laughing in our faces It's a joke saying a joke. This is I mean, you know, I mean people I mean I got high blood pressure, you know, this just raised my blood pressure. I'm scared. No, well It woke me up. So I went from 0 to 100 in about five seconds. Let me ask you this What was your immediate thoughts? Did you try to get on the phone to call people or I did and it was so many people probably using the Transit, I mean the phone system. I couldn't I couldn't dial out the phone was busy. People couldn't call me was busy I didn't know what to do. I didn't I didn't know what to do where to go. What's safe? What's not, you know, what's not safe Do I go up on the 11th floor in the building hit the missile hit and knock down the building and now I'm dead in the building? I mean, I looked up in the sky. I've seen these mirror. I said, I'm like American, you know airline. I Knew they thought something was wrong because they were in full speed. They were trying to get off that island I saw plane after plane after plane and gradually, you know, when they go up in the air, they go slowly But this was you would have thought it was a F F 14 Jet you saw planes taking off one after another. Yeah Yo, yeah, they were they were moving fast. They were moving fast I mean, they probably told people to hold on buckle up because we out of here and they left This is effect how you feel about the state any of do you feel do you feel confident and secure in this state after this? Not really my My son's already told me that That I need to leave Leave it right away. He said maybe this is a warning that you're safe now But what about what happens happens tomorrow or next week? Are you gonna think that this is a are you really gonna think that this is a Is this another false a false report or the serious was he thinking in the context of a ballistic missile from North Korea from North Korea, you know, you just didn't know it just kept telling you seek immediate Shelter this is not a drill. So when you're hearing this that I've never heard this before you thinking well I don't know if I have five minutes. I don't have I don't know if I have ten minutes What do you do it? It looked like I was this was a movie and I was part of it because I was in it, but I saw it well, we all did and I think I've gotten a lot of different responses for a lot of different people What would be your message to the governor of this state because ultimately I hate to say it but it is a state agency that that did this in error and The governor is actually in charge of the state. So what would you say the governor? I would say I would say don't let this happen again Give us some answers and hold the person who whoever pushed that button accountable Because this is not a joke. This is serious and this have affected many people lives from what I saw people running in the street Do you think it's possible that one person could have that kind of control? don't you think there's a dual control on something this serious and this you know with that kind of weight of Intensity Yeah, I think many people Is involved and I don't I think everyone who was involved should be held accountable To make sure that this doesn't happen again because the next time this happened again You don't know if it's a false a false drill, you know, you're wondering. Oh, I'm not worried about it You know the other day it happened This is probably a false drill and it might be the real drill, you know, I don't think that this should have ever happened I think everyone should be held accountable All the way up from the bottom all the way going up to you know to the top give us some answers and make sure that this don't ever And I do mean ever happen again There you heard it from Steve. I mean resident of Waikiki Honolulu and If governor if you're listening, I think he just gave you a message and this is Tim Appichella think tech Hawaii Aloha