The Morning News with Vineeta Sawkar

While the Twins are out of town, there is a lot of work being done from ticketing to marketing and everything in between to prepare for a very busy August and even September for the Minnesota Twins home games and we dive into all of what this team has to offer in the coming weeks with Eddie Eixenberger, Vice President of Ticket Sales and Strategy for the Minnesota Twins on today’s Twins First Pitch!

John Rash of the Star Tribune jumps in with us to break down the slow political week from the Kamala Harris push for the Democratic candidacy to really catching our breath after the turmoil that has unfurled since the Debate only a few short weeks ago! We also preview Trump's visit to Minnesota and John’s piece coming up this weekend in the Star Tribune!

A lot has happened in politics in only the last month and we try to make sense of it with Steven Schier, political science professor at Carleton College - from the unraveling of the Presidential race since the Debate only a few short weeks ago to the Obama’s endorsing their support for Kamala Harris as a Democratic candidate! That, as well as the Democratic Convention coming up and a quick recap of the Republican Convention!

A stroke survivor left Dan Zimmerman with a different outlook until one day he founded a nonprofit for helping those in need of adaptive cycling and is making a cross country trip and is stopping in Minnesota to visit with fellow survivors and he is bringing trikes to bring the same joy to others, including Dave Bancroft, a fellow stroke survivor from right here in Minnesota. Dan Zimmerman is making a stop at Maple Grove Saturday morning at Open Door Church to help those in need of a trike and Dan Zimmer gets todays 'Hauser Salute'! 

Vikings training camp is well underway, we talked to Henry Lake about the first week of camp, Twins trying to catch the Guardians and how does he see Team USA faring in the Olympics?

Today is a bittersweet day at WCCO Radio - we say so long to our good friend, WCCO Chief Meteorologist Paul Douglas joins us one last time to reflect on the long seven year run on these airwaves, his illustrious career in meteorology and of course one last weather forecast as we head into the weekend!

A lot of golf was had in Blaine on Thursday for Day 1 of the 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities - we talked to Mike Welch, Tournament Director for the 3M Open about the leaderboard, Billy Horschel update, this weekend’s festivities and more!

Overnight a video surfaced of both Michelle and Barack Obama voiced their support in endorsing Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate - we chatted with Margaret Brennan of Face the Nation and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for CBS about that, Trumps visit to Minnesota and more - as well as preview her upcoming show on Sunday on Face the Nation!

With Tom Hauser in for Vineeta on Friday, we brought in WCCO Chief Meteorologist Paul Douglas for a full hour to chat one last time with Vineeta and recap a remarkable career at NewsTalk 830 WCCO! Discussing Paul’s entrepreneurship journey, learning from his dad, memories with co-hosting alongside Jordana and much more! Our listeners chime in and give their fond farewell on this Thursday morning! 

(Image: Paul with his old KARE-11 teammate Diana Pierce in the WCCO Studio)

In today's Twins first pitch we chatted with Tommy Watkins, third base coach for the Minnesota Twins, about their walk-off winner yesterday and a little about his foundation and how you the listeners can help support it!