And we understand the gravity of the situation, he told CNBC.

Ditto with subways theyre going but online schedules cant be accessed.

The Mayor said the priority has been insuring critical services.

New York City, Mayor Eric Adams

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He predicted a cascading effect from the outage throughout Friday, calling this a developing situation.

Airlines and airports were heavily hit with huge crowds staring at blank monitors.

City officials said hospitals are open and patients should not put off care.

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However, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is delaying some procedures due to the outage.

At this time, we are pausing the start of any procedure that requires anesthesia.

We are in the process of calling patients with appointments that are affected.

If you have not been notified, yo proceed to your scheduled appointment, its website said.

(CrowdStrike is also the name of the software.)

We know what the issue is, were resolving and have resolved the issue.

Now its recovering systems that are out there.

And we identified this very quickly and remediated the issue.

And as systems come back online, as theyre rebooted, theyre coming up and theyre working.

And now we are working with each and every customer to ensure that we can bring them back online.

He said that When you look at software, it is a is a very complex world.

And in some cases, you have a weird interaction.

And it didnt seem like it happened on every Windows system.

And again, thats what were focused on getting customers back up and running.