patients that were going to be needed to transferred to our facility. eve an level one trauma center would be overwhelmed with ten critically ill patients potentially arriving in a short period of time. so we have a mass casualty situation where there s basically a phone tree where we get additional people to come in and help out in the emergency department. it s extra nurses, therapists, x-ray techs, even cleaning crew called to help out in addition to a few extra surgeons. it was my job as the attending on-call to provide triage. somebody has to know exactly how many patients are in the emergency department or en route at any one time and make a decision as to which one is the most critically ill and requires immediate use of our not-unlimited resources.
all so we appreciate the kind words and didn t realize how big of a story or what this would be so we wanted to put a face to leo. good guy. everybody loves him. would do anything for you. you know, loves horses and works hard and loves to have a good time and never any opportunity to see a cowboy football game, he s there. so we missed the game, but we feel the love and we ll get through this and move on. at this point we ll go ahead and open it up for q&a. mr. bender, if you could kindly approach the microphone. i know you said you activated the phone tree and there was a protocol in place, extra nurses, hospital therapists. i know medical staff for the
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mark and norse are doing is trying to approach this like north korea is some kind of rational actor. this is not a country that does rational things, you know? and so you re sort of approaching it from this point of view of that well north korea would never do this. or it s not likely that they would behave in this way. it is true that this is a very unusual hack. i mean it s never been seen where you have hackers go in and destroy thousands of computers, which is what they did here. that made the system unusable. and you had sony employees having to use old cell phones and old personal phones. gmail, having to use a phone tree to be able to communicate with each other so this is a very unusual situation. the fbi doesn t believe there was ever really a reasonable case for a ransom here. this is not really what we ve ever seen in ransom cases. it just doesn t add up. evan, a question for you. if the fbi didn t take what norse was saying seriously, why did it meet with norse? well th
detailed insider information, the kind they think only an employee would p. the difference between private companies and the fbi is the fbi has access to classified information, intelligence information, and we re monitoring north korea from a nuclear standpoint so we have sources and methods we don t want to compromise. reporter: the new information was presented to the fbi this week, but so far the bureau isn t budging, still blaming north korea for the massive hack. the state department is sticking with the story as well. the united states government has concluded that the north korean government is responsible for this attack and we stand by that conclusion. to cope with this unprecedented cyber attack, sony turned back the clock. the wall street journal reports that employees communicated with a phone tree, activated old black blackberries and paid people with old checks cut by a machine pulled from storage. their 6,000 employees are still cleaning up the mess, as others