The Morning News with Vineeta Sawkar

MilesPerHour is a music producer and DJ from Minnesota. He has supported Steve Aoki at the Armory and performed at North Coast Music Festival in Chicago amongst many other shows. He explains his career and what it takes to make a song a success.

The University of Minnesota Football teamed had their first game of the season last night. Henry breaks down the highlights. Plus the Lynx lose their latest game and the Twins are getting ready for a home series against the Padres.

After a week of temperatures that have been nearly perfect, a cold front is coming around Labor Day. Chris shares the details of what we can expect in the coming days.

Former State Senators Amy Koch and Jeff Hayden are live from the fair. We discuss the shooting at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, as well as the growing questions over whether Governor Tim Walz will seek a third term in office.

It was around 8:55 Wednesday morning when news began to break of a school shooting in South Minneapolis - we recap the events as they unfolded with Adam and Jordana who had to pivot into a different mode to provide the latest developments - we get their perspective on how that went down!

For today’s First Pitch we had the host of Minnesota Twins pregame and postgame coverage - Mark Genosky joined Vineeta LIVE on the stage - talking Twins-Toronto, we do a little Twins trivia and Geno shares his experience so far as the host so far and his love for Minnesota sports

It is our daily segment at the Fair, where we set down the mics and munch on some food so we tried out the Croissant Beignet Bites and tried out some wine selections!

What is better than one Blois Olson segment? a double cup of Blois Olson for your morning take! He joined Vineeta LIVE on the stage to talk about what he thinks the way forward is, the changes in policy, the details we still await with this situation and also where does Blois sit among the current political landscape of the left and right!

School is almost in session and public safety is top of mind for many including University of Saint Thomas President Rob Vischer who joined Vineeta LIVE on the State Fair stage to talk about a new initiative that he is aiming for at St. Thomas with the ‘Claritas Initiative’, public safety into the new semester and also the bright, shiny new arena for St. Thomas!

Big news yesterday amid the chaos and heartbreak was the return of Adam Thielen to Minnesota, we talked to Henry Lake about that, the tough blown game by the Twins and Napheesa Collier’s impact since her return!