joining us now is that health director, teresa anderson, is the health department director for nebraska's central district, the central district is right in the middle of that state, about a two hour drive away from omaha, ms. anderson, thank you so much for making home for us tonight, i know you have a lot to deal with, and it is a very busy time. >> thank you, rachel, for having me. >> first, let me just ask first, if i characterized things accurately as far as you know and if there is any other important developments that we should know about in terms of this, what appears to be a pretty sizable outbreak in and around grand island. >> the grout break is associated in some degree to the pate packing industry but there are a lot of factors that go into determining how severe the outbreak is. >> we're getting a sort of echo effect on your audio. i'm not sure if there is anything we can do to adjust that. i know it's technically, this is always, this is always a challenge to do these things. i can hear you though. let me just ask you, it seems like that might be better. >> okay. good. >> g