important day here. there were five people, including scalise, who were wounded? how is everyone doing? and i mean also their emotional scars. they have cleared ptsd since that day. in talking to members, how many of them really still live with this on a daily basis. they had to change the practice field this year to a different field because a lot of members didn t want to be there. you talk about the actual health of the five people, including scalise, that were shot. one of the best parts of yesterday sitting with the republican team, a couple dozen feet away from steve scalise, david bailey, the capitol police officer, still in his protective. stafford is now healthy. matt mika, crystal greiner has also recovered. everybody is physically back on track. everybody physically is back on the baseball field.
[laughter] mercedes, what about this race specifically in georgia. they had some bad weather, turnout is a big deal. but the conventional wisdom about democrats you had events. you had kathy griffin holding the head up and that kind of turned the tide. that unfortunately you have the shooting with republicans targeted, including scalise. did that change the dynamic late in the game in this race? to go i think it definitely benefited handel in that sense. i think ossoff changed his narrative from being make trump furious to be more about matter it moderate candidate. he is a wolf in sheep s clothing, that s clear. i m getting real-time information and right now what we re seeing is presidential level turnout for republicans.
reporter: more than 50 shots exchanged before the attack finally ended, but not before the shooter, james t. hodgkinson, wounded four. including scalise and special agent grine rerr. had they not been there, it would have been a massacre. officers prevented that and my family and i will be forever grateful. cnn, alexandria, virginia. thank god for those heroes. russia claims they may have killed isis leader all-baghadadi in a stand off. but why go back there, when you can stay home. .with neulasta onpro? strong chemo can put you at risk of serious infection. neulasta helps reduce infection risk by boosting your white blood cell count, which strengthens your immune system.
base side where there were several people in there. a pile of you, basically, right? absolutely. all trying to get to cover. police officers firing pistols managed to take down hodgkinson who was armed with a long rifle. the shooter was never on the field and never got on the field. he stayed behind the third base dugout and came around behind home plate. got behind the utility shed and then darted out in front of the utility shed and that s when he got shot. first responders quickly arriving on the scene where the players had been tending to the wounded, including scalise, who had crawled into the outfield. i could see steve scalise out into the field. he dragged himself, after he was shot from near second base, about 10 or 15 yards into the fields, just to be further away from the gunman. he was laying motionless out there. so i wanted to get to him. but there were still shots going overhead from both sides. and so finally when we heard the