Colleen Coates cleaned American Airlines cabins at Charlotte Douglas. Last Thursday she collapsed on a hot jet bridge and died. Her coworkers say it was the heat, and they'd warned her employer about it more than a year ago. The city owns the airport and is still negotiating its lease with the airlines. We look at what the city says it can and can't do. Plus: former council member Tiawana Brown is headed to federal prison for COVID relief fraud; the fine print on the state's $14.4 million bet on the WTA Finals; and the best thing to do in Charlotte this Saturday.

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Sources this episode: WFAE, WSOC, WCCB, The Charlotte Post, Axios Charlotte, WBTV, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Governor, The Mint Museum

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