thank you, mr. mayor. good evening to all of you. i m here at the madison county public safety building in edwardsville with the illinois homeland security advisor and director of the illinois emergency management agency, our brigadier general, alicia tate nudo. additional statewide and local iema personnel. we are joined by edwardsville mayor, whose leadership has been so important in these last 20 years. senator rochelle crow, representative katie stewart, representative amy elick, county board chair kirk prensler, the incident commander you met a few moments ago, fire chief whiteford and local officials from madson county and edwardsville fire and police command staff, thank you to all of you for the work that you ve been doing.