You either love or hate this extended warm weather. But for our local ski resorts at the mercy of mother nature. They’re playing the waiting game to get the slopes open. We’ll talk to an official at Trollhaugen with how the above average temps are impacting this ski season.

Next week will be the 60th anniversary of the first kidney transplant from a living donor. We’ll talk with a doctor about another milestone that took place last month — the first robot-assisted kidney transplant.

We;ll drop in on meteorologist Sven Sundgaard in Canada, where he’s learning about climate change and polar bears.

And well dig into the debate over how nuclear power should fit into Minnesota's renewable energy goals.

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