The Morning News with Vineeta Sawkar

Many people flock to Canterbury Park in Shakopee for horse races during the weekends but Wednesday and Thursdays have become a popular time for horse racing as well and it is in full swing at Canterbury - Angela Hermann with Canterbury Park joined to talk weather when it comes to racing, bringing in first timers and much more!

Today’s First Pitch including some comments postgame from ‘The Sheriff’ himself, Chris Paddack who reflects on the struggles with not just the team but the pitching but also is holding out hope that the Twins fans will still keep the faith amid tough times!

A busy couple of weeks ahead for the Minnesota Lynx as they will be participating in Pride weekend here in the Twin Cities and will be featured in the parade. Also coming up on July 1st, the Commissioners Cup Final will be held at Target Center and yes, Caitlin Clark and the Fever will be in town - Carley Knox, Lynx President of Business Operations previews what is to come for the red hot Lynx squad both on and off the court!

Many businesses, especially small businesses are facing uncertainty with the latest roll outs with tariffs so we checked in with Shruti Patel, Chief Product Officer for Business Banking with U.S. Bank - she breaks it all down as to where recent survey’s stand on business and what the current small business landscape looks like!

Wash, rinse, repeat - the Twins pitching needs to get better - We talked to Henry Lake about just the same trend with one bad inning when it comes to the starting rotation. Also we chat Lynx as they lost just their 2nd game of the season last night in Washington D.C.

As we await the arrival of some rain and thunderstorms we get the latest from WCCO Chief Meteorologist Chris Shaffer on the systems moving through and how long until we see the heat return! Also, Chris shares his nostalgia for surfing!

From Bloomington to Minneapolis, some of the major roadways are experiencing or set to experience road closures so we talked to Kent Barnard with MNDOT to break it all down for us and how these closures and road work will affect the busy weekend in Minneapolis and Saint Paul with Pride and more!

There is a fun event taking place on Wednesday night celebrating volunteers and fundraising towards better communities in Saint Paul and joining us to talk about this amazing event was Andy Rodriguez with Party for the Parks - we previewed some of the festivities being featured and the mission behind this event in Saint Paul at the Como Lakes Pavilion

New poll numbers just released and we ask Blois on the overall reception from Governor Walz as he could run again for Governor and how tough is it to accomplish a third term. Also asked him about how the ripple effect of the tragic events involving the Hortmans and its long term effect on lawmakers and political figures going forward and chatted about some of the union strikes as well!

With yesterday’s loss the Minnesota Twins have now lost 10 of their last 11 games and have so many errors in their game - for Twins First Pitch we chatted with the pre and postgame host Mark Genosky on what this team needs to do to right the ship going forward as we are now in the dog days of the summer baseball season!