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The general assembly, distinguished guests and members of the media, welcome. To the members of our national guard, our servicemen and women and our veterans, thank you on behalf of of the most grateful state. [applause] god bless you. To the citizens, the taxpayers of illinois, it is an honor to serve you. My report on the state of the state, this bicentennial year, begins with a reflection on what has been born, built and grown in illinois. Our history is rich. We were the first state to ratify the constitutional amendment to abolish slavery. President lincoln, grant, reagan and obama called illinois home. We taught the world to rebuild the city when we scraped the sky after the chicago fire. We invented the 20 and started the First Nuclear chain reactor. With 36 fortune 500 companies, one point to million Small Businesses and 72000 of the nations greatest farms we are the ....
The island, what are your biggest concerns this morning . Well, the response has been a little bit slow out of the gates. Islandared the whole emergency situation, no electricity, no Running Water and the list goes on. You can see the images of people leaving the island, trying to get to the airport. It is a desperate situation. I just hope that it is not too ofe to prevent a deepening this humanitarian crisis, and a hope we are much faster to send troops down there to take control of distribution. Supplies seem to be there. It is a question of logistics. I think the only entity capable of taking control of the situation is the armed forces. Host those efforts ramping up quickly the last couple of days. The headline in the wall street journal front page, puerto rico eight trickles in. They ranked that the diploid a threestar general to puerto rico to oversee efforts. And the administration weighed the jones act to allow nonus ships ....