Also a gun scare closes Honolulu Airport.
Officials have shut down Honolulu's airport after security agents said a man with an object resembling a gun in his carry-on bag had passed undetected through an X-ray checkpoint.
Both the international and inter-island terminals were closed shortly after 9am local time after the man entered the inter-island terminal with the suspected gun.
Security agents were unable to identify the man, only realising after he had passed through security that the X-ray imaging revealed what could have been a gun in his belongings.
Both terminals were evacuated and all persons carrying tickets would be required to return through security checkpoints, Kali said.
Passengers on arriving flights were being held on their aircraft during the search for the bag with the suspected gun, which is on-going.
The shutdown affected several outgoing and inbound overseas flights, as well as all inter-island traffic between the Hawaiian islands.