field of candidates. so other candidates are also hitting the stump in corn country today, cory booker is there. amy klobuchar is there. we have a panel ready to dig in to today s events. von hilliard is live for us where beto o rourke is about to arrive for an event today. what s the energy been like for him? reporter: good morning. actually he was ran a 5k this morning so this is going to be his first real event, if we may. essentially, this is what we re starting to see. this is his third day on the campaign trail. you re now seeing pop-ups selling shirts, selling buttons, suddenly we re ten and a half months out from the iowa caucus still. this is the scene we re looking at in towns across eastern iowa over the last three days in what you see here, this is an event here in waterloo, beto o rourke will be campaigning for a special election coming up on this next tuesday, it s for a