what democrats i was talking to some republicans running the senate races, they are looking to see how badly is this health care law implementation going to go? they view that as something that could drive the obama approval number and play a role in the 2014 midterm elections. kasey, see you on morning joe. kasey hunt live for us in washington, d.c. new york city, which will be run by a democrat for the first time in 20 years. bill de blasio beat republican joe lhota by a wider margin that polls predicted, by nearly 50 points. de blasio focused his message on his idea that new york has become two cities. tackling in equality is not easy. it never has been and it never will be. make no mistake, the people of this city have chosen a progressive path.
we re back. let s go back to the scene of the crime today. kasey hunt is outside the mass shooting. give us a recap on what happened today. a lot of people tuning in right now. reporter: absolutely. we started the day here pretty early on, not that long after we first got those initial reports that a shooting was occurring. when i first arrived shortly before 9:00 in the morning it was still a chaotic scene. i had police officers pushing me back off of the perimeter because they said there was physical danger from the snipers who were on the roofs trying to track down the shooter. just before i came inside here where police have been doing press conferences to update us about what s happening, there were still buses taking people out of the navy yard down to national stadium.
we re back. let s go back to the scene of the crime today. kasey hunt is outside the mass shooting. give us a recap on what happened today. a lot of people tuning in right now. reporter: absolutely. we started the day here pretty early on, not that long after we first got those initial reports that a shooting was occurring. when i first arrived shortly before 9:00 in the morning it was still a chaotic scene. i had police officers pushing me back off of the perimeter because they said there was physical danger from the snipers who were on the roofs trying to track down the shooter. just before i came inside here where police have been doing press conferences to update us about what s happening, there were still buses taking people out of the navy yard down to national stadium. the stadium has been repurposed since it was supposed to host a nationals/braves game tonight. there were a few fans who were uninformed about the news, didn t realize what had been going on and were sort of
which is largely men and who are focused on issues that emily s list in particular disagrees with. they wanted to make sure that they were showing that there s already discussion of a potential female president. while hillary was the focus of it, there was discussion that other women could be leader in the democratic party going forward. senator amy klobuchar, elizabeth warren, wendy davis in texas. a lot of names thrown out yesterday. a want to thank kasie hunt reporting live from ames, iowa. thanks for joining ut. i am really jealous of kasie. i ve never attended the iowa state fair. we said fried butter. the massachusetts state fair does not compare to the kind of food you can get up there. i m jealous she s getting to sample that this weekend. let s talk about the republican race taking shape here. it s a lot more active than
leaders core messages and values, they are anti-abortion, sort of the evangelical cadre of the republican party here in iowa. that s the audience that they re going to be speaking to today on stage. all right, kasie, in another part of the state yesterday there was an event called madam president that emily s list, the group that supports final maim democratic candidates for office. this was called the first hillary 2016 was not there. senator claire mccaskill who has already endorsed her was there. tell us what went on there yesterday. mccaskill was acting as though she was a surrogate for a hillary clinton presidential campaign. i spoke to her after the event. that was really focused on, in fact, being a counter point to this event we re seeing here today. emily s list organizers wanted to make sure there was a contrast between what we re going to see on stage today,