You said — Where is the statement? Besides just a reporters say so? When Fukino made a similar statement in October of 2008 it was posted of the Hawaii dept of health website. The old statement is is listed here.
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Yeah, it was put up after it was reported... :-)
But, I like what Fox News has always said — “We report, you decide.” And that works well here. They report and we decide.
So, basically you can decide any way you want from your own perspective. From mine it looks fairly obvious.
It will be obvious if it's ever official. But a reporter saying something doesn't make it so. It's nearly 8 am in Hawaii and so far nothing has officially been said or posted.