The Morning News with Vineeta Sawkar

Congrats to #7!

Twins Bench Coach Jayce Tingler on Mauer's Hall of Fame career, and the Twins 2nd half starting without a couple of the regular players. 

Amidst the internet outages, Paul Douglas jumped in, and joined Adam Carter and Steve Simpson with a look at the latest weather update on The WCCO Morning News. 

Julie Vavruska serves as the Director of Community Events and Engagement and helps with all things Cooperstown - she joined us to preview Sunday’s big event featuring Joe Mauer and what all goes into the preparation for the Hall of Fame ceremony!

Jordana joins Vineeta to preview her show and we also discuss Joe Biden’s COVID diagnosis.

After the third day in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention - there was a lot said and a lot to unpack Susie Jones joins to recap Wednesday nights events and preview the final night including former President Donald Trump set to speak Thursday night in Milwaukee. 

This past week, St. Thomas continued its plans to build towards an arena for its athletics program in 2025. Phil Esten, Vice President and Director of Athletics for the University of St. Thomas joined with the latest on the development of a new arena and its utilization from various aspects of Tommies athletics. 

This week's review is the new release of the movie ‘Twisters’ starring Glen Powell and others! 

Another record setting night for Caitlin Clark, this time in the WNBA talling 19 assists - we talked to Henry Lake about that, how he thinks the Minnesota Twins second half will go and Timberwolves so far in Las Vegas for NBA Summer League.

We have had a nice couple of days in the Twin Cities - will that trend continue through the weekend? Paul Douglas joins us to talk about the upcoming weekend forecast

From JD Vance making his first appearance as the official Vice President candidate to Donald Trump to Donald Trump’s granddaughter Kai Trump speaking about her relationship with her grandpa - there was a lot to unpack from last night in Milwaukee!