 But others say this chaos was preventable. It's frankly shocking that in 2024, it's possible for an outage like this to occur. At least a dozen hospitals around the country also affected, some canceling elective surgeries. President Joe Biden briefed on the outage. The White House says his team is in touch with impacted organizations. Meanwhile, CrowdStrike scrambling to deploy a fix. The CEO apologizing for the chaos in a post on X and promising to get systems back online.