Assistant secretary bob cadlic here today to talk. Welcome to todays meeting. I am executive Vice President of worldwide government, legal, and Business Affairs at mcandrews and forbes incorporated. I will be presiding over todays discussion. I will have the privilege of leading a conversation for 30 minutes, and then i will open it to questions and answers. We will end promptly at 1 30 as you might imagine. These gentleman are very busy right now dealing with coronavirus. So, lets just start looking back over roughly the past decade, emerging Infectious Diseases played a recurring and ominous theme, be it the h 1n 1, ebola, zika, and now the 2019 novel coronavirus, the threat is clearly not dissipating. When it coming to nondisease natural disasters, stafford act provides Disaster Relief fund to enable immediate response. By comparison, theres small Infectious Disease Rapid Response need more stafford acte mechanisms to enable a quicker response to research these threats. Maybe ill ta