Flooding updates + debate preview
⛅ Clouds increase Thursday, but it should be dry for most during the day. Highs will be back in the 70s for most of the state.
🌧️ Showers and a few thunderstorms will spread east late Thursday night into Friday morning across much of Minnesota. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
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| Coming up on Morning Edition |
🤸🏾♀️ The Olympics are next month in Paris and trials are underway to determine who'll represent Team USA. This weekend in Minneapolis, hopeful gymnasts are competing to be among the five men and five women who will go for gold in the Summer Games. Among the competitors is Suni Lee of Minnesota. Peter Cox has the story.
⚖️ Five people are facing charges for allegedly trying to bribe a juror in the Feeding Our Future trial earlier this month. Three of the suspects were defendants in that trial, and investigators say the group recruited a Seattle woman to drop off a gift bag full of cash at the juror’s home. Matt Sepic reports. |
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| Coming up at 9 a.m. |
📖 MPR News guest host Euan Kerr talks with University of Minnesota bioethicist Carl Elliott about his new book, “The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No.”
📞 And we want to hear from you, too. Have you seen something unethical in your workplace or been asked to participate in something you considered morally wrong? What led to your decision to blow the whistle and what happened after you spoke up? If you decided to stay silent, what led to your decision? Call 651-227-6000 or 800-242-2828 during the 9 a.m. hour. |
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| Coming up at 8 p.m. |
📻 You can hear Thursday night's CNN presidential debate live on MPR News. We'll have analysis and fact-checking afterwards, followed by a live call-in program where you can weigh in with your thoughts. We will also be livestreaming the debate on mprnews.org.
📡 Our coverage begins at 8 p.m. and the debate should last until 9:30 p.m. We'll hear from NPR reporters and analysts and then at 10 p.m., we'll bring you a live edition of "The Middle with Jeremy Hobson," where they'll break down what we learned from the first debate of the 2024 general election. |
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| | Family that lost home to flooded river vows to keep store open as floodwaters devastate Midwest |
A family that watched their home collapse into a flooded river near an at risk Minnesota dam is vowing to reopen their nearby store to sell its homemade pie and burgers as soon as its safe to do so.
That home's disappearance into the river and the hundreds of flood-damaged or destroyed homes elsewhere in the upper Midwest are among the first property casualties of extreme weather gripping the region as floodwaters move south. | |
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| | Marshall Pride provides a cathartic homecoming for small town drag performers |
Drag shows are now a staple of the entertainment scene in the Twin Cities and other larger Minnesota towns. Some of the performers grew up in rural Minnesota. Some of those small towns host drag shows of their own, and these performers are taking the opportunity for a cathartic homecoming.
“People come to the drag show [and] they’ve never been to one,” Rachel Johnson said. “They learned all kinds of different things, like how to respect pronouns, plenty of things that are important, right? And they learn and they grow, and then they take that to their workplace and that just expands.” | |
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