The Morning News with Vineeta Sawkar

Scott Swenson is the Minnesota state co-chair for the American Cancer Society: Men Wear Pink Ambassadors. He joins to talk about raising money and awareness through wearing pink in a unified fight against breast cancer in men and he and his team are recruiting more in the fight! 

Today on the ‘Morning Take’ we chatted with Blois about this week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago including some key guest appearances on the first night! Then chatted a little bit about the rebranding of the Star Tribune into the ‘Minnesota Star Tribune’. Also, we asked him what George Latimer has meant to the people of Saint Paul and the legacy he leaves behind!

After a solid start from Bailey Ober and some clutch hitting late from the Twins, they win 3-2 in Arlington - we talked to Twins bench coach Jayce Tingler about that, Farmer’s little league homerun, Zebby Matthews, injury updates on Buxton and Correa and more!

Friday marks a 53 year run for Denny Long on the airwaves of WCCO Radio - he joined us to recap the many ups and downs through his time at the station and some of his best memories including a clip of him on the air during the Tiananmen Square events! 

It has been seven years since we had the last Alien movie franchise sequel - this weekend Alien: Romulus hits theaters and Rusty Gatenby joins to review the film for us!

Another quality night from Bailey Ober, despite not having his best stuff - Twins get the win over the Rangers 3-2 and Henry Lake joins to recap a great outing from Ober and also dove into some Lynx discussion after they returned last night and we also saw the return of Napheesa Collier as well!

In response to the murder of Philando Castile, some of his classmates from Central High School have annually held an event to honor the memory of Philando and we talked to Adrian Perryman one of the organizers of this great event about the story behind it and some of the activities taking place to honor his memory.

Recently, Margaret Brennan, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and Moderator for Face the Nation, sat down with Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance and she recaps some of the details of her interview with him, also we discussed the Tim Walz record being scrutinized, cease fire potential between Hamas and Israel!

Jordana has been on the road a lot lately, so we were able to join her at their broadcast location for the 7th Annual Medina Charity Classic in honor of NMDP for the constant fight against blood cancer and finding the match for those in need!

It's going to be a busy weekend at Target Field for music, between Green Day and Smashing Pumpkins on Saturday to Def Leppard and Journey on Monday - there is a lot of helping hands involved in the preparations for events like this so we talked to Matt Hoy, Senior Vice President of Operations for the Minnesota Twins!