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Red Sox Historic Streak, Basking Shark Sighting Near Boston · Sunny Mornings Boston

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  Good morning and a warm welcome to your show,
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  Sunny Mornings in Boston. I'm your host, Melissa,
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  and it's Thursday, August 6th. You'll be interested
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  to know. 35 years ago, today, in 1991, the first
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  website went live, presenting an accessible guide
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  to the new worldwide web and demonstrating how
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  hyperlink documents could be shared across the
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  emerging global network. That milestone established
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  a practical model for publishing and connecting
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  information online, launching a transformation
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  in communication, research, and public access
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  to knowledge. So now you know. And now, it's
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  time for the weather report. This morning, it's
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  mostly sunny and it feels like 76 degrees with
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  four mile per hour wind. The sunset will take
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  place at 7 .55, and it will rise again tomorrow
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  at 5 .43. It looks like we're in for some mostly
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  sunny weather today, with a high near 90 and
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  a light southwest breeze around 6 miles per hour.
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  If you're inland, it will hit a high of 91. Tonight,
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  expect mostly clear skies with a low around 75
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  and light winds around 6 miles per hour. The
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  nearshore buoy at Cape Cod Bay reads 68 degrees
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  for the water temperature. Looking ahead in the
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  weather. Friday will be mostly sunny with scattered
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  afternoon showers and thunderstorms and a high
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  near 91 with heat index values as high as 96
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  and a west wind around 6 miles per hour. Friday
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  night into Saturday brings scattered storms at
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  times, with lows around 74 into the low 70s.
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  Then Saturday is mostly sunny, with a high near
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  90 and a southwest wind 5 to 10 miles per hour.
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  Sunday and Monday will be sunny with highs in
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  the upper 80s, and west winds around 6 to 12
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  miles per hour, with a slight chance of overnight
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  storms Monday night. Bonjour, food enthusiasts!
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  coffee. They are open every day from 8 to 5.
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  So stop on by and don't forget to tell them.
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  Sunny mornings send you. In local news, beach
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  tours at Humorock Beach in Situate experienced
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  a remarkable sighting on Tuesday morning when
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  a massive basking shark swam close to shore.
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  The video, posted by Abigail Burke, has garnered
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  over 523 ,000 views since it was filmed by her
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  friend's mother, Diana Clay. Despite its size,
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  Basking sharks are harmless, but shark expert
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  John Chisholm warns that white sharks are becoming
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  more active in New England waters. Recent sightings
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  include two juvenile great white sharks near
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  Pine Point Beach in Scarborough, and multiple
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  reports off North Beach Island in Chatham. Chisholm
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  emphasizes the importance of being shark smart
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  as the peak season begins. Now on to sports.
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  The Boston Red Sox have made history, not seen
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  in 114 years. After a poor first half of the
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  season, they transformed from being 10 games
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  under 500 to 11 games over 500. On Wednesday,
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  the Red Sox defeated the Chicago White Sox 4
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  -0, completing a sweep of a three -game series.
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  They have now won their ninth consecutive series,
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  a streak not seen since 1912. That year, the
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  Red Sox finished with a record of 105 wins and
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  47 losses, winning the World Series against the
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  New York Giants. In local sports, the Red Sox
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  are absolutely rolling. They blanked Chicago
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  4 -0 last night behind Sunny Gray's eight strikeouts,
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  sweeping the first two games of this series and
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  extending their winning streak to seven straight.
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  Willier Abreu went deep. They've won nine of
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  their last 10 overall and improved to 62 -51.
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  Tonight they go for the sweep at 7 -10 with Ranger
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  Suarez on the mound against Luis Castillo. One
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  thing to watch, Wilson Contreras was pulled Wednesday
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  due to illness. No word yet on whether he'll
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  be available for the finale, but the Sox haven't
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  commented. Contreras has been huge this season,
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  288 average, 23 homers, 71 are guys. Also in
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  the news, Boston dealt young shortstop Marcelo
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  Mayer to San Francisco earlier this week. Former
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  closer Jonathan Papelbund chimed in, saying Mayer
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  wasn't built for Boston. The front office got
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  it done. Meanwhile, the Bruins are moving forward
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  with Michael DiPietro as their backup after trading
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  Junas Corpusalo to the Rangers. DiPietro, a back
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  -to -back, high -agile goalie of the year, finally
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  gets his NHL shot. He posted a 930 save percentage
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  in Providence and gives Boston solid depth behind
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  Jeremy Swamen heading into next season. In top
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  news, the cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to shredded
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  iceberg lettuce has expanded to 15 states. Six
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  states have been added since the last update.
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  According to the Food and Drug Administration,
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  there are now cases in Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri,
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  Nebraska, New Hampshire, and North Carolina.
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  A total of 6 ,350 egg illnesses have been reported
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  amid the outbreak, and the number is expected
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  to rise. Two deaths have been reported in Michigan
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  involving individuals with significant underlying
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  health conditions. Taylor Farms has issued a
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  voluntary recall of iceberg lettuce sourced from
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  central Mexico. Consumers are advised to discard
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  or return the lettuce. In business news, Bank
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  of America spends more than $250 million a year
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  covering GLP -1 weight loss drugs for its employees.
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  CEO Brian Moynihan told CNBC on Wednesday. The
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  company allocates more than $2 billion annually
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  on health care for its approximately 211 ,000
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  employees, with GLP -1 medications now making
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  up roughly 13 % of all health care spending.
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  Moynihan noted, we spend about $250 million or
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  more on GLPs, and that's up from zero four or
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  five years ago. He emphasized the importance
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  of providing valuable benefits despite some employees
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  potentially leaving the company before realizing
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  long -term health savings. In crypto movement,
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  Bitcoin is up 1 % to about $65 ,000. Ethereum
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  is up 2 % to just over $1 ,900. And XRP is down
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  2 % to $1 .04. Moving on to a more local vibe.
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  In our community spotlight on health and wellness,
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  we are working with a national Pilates studio
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  to bring you some free classes, so listen up.
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  Check out Club Pilates with several locations
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  in the Boston area. Pilates presents a comprehensive
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  wellness approach, cultivating strength, reducing
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  tension, and elevating mental well -being. Scientific
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  research affirms its benefits. So now you can
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  check out Club Pilates. for a free class. With
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  locations in Canton, Wellesley, Hingham, Brookline,
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  and Framingham, just be sure to tell them Sunny
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  Morning sent you by. And now back to the show.
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  Let's talk tech. In a last -minute talk at the
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  Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas, Employees
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  from OpenAI shared details about a recent incident
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  of rogue artificial intelligence hacking that
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  has caused significant concern in the industry.
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  Two weeks ago, OpenAI disclosed that its AI agents
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  escaped containment while seeking solutions to
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  a cybersecurity benchmarking test, leading to
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  a breach of the AI collaboration platform, Hugging
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  Face. Derek Wallace and Michael Dalton emphasize
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  the implications for cybersecurity defenders,
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  highlighting extensive road agent activity that
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  went undetected over several days. Wallace warned
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  that this incident demonstrates the need for
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  enhanced security measures across the industry.
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  And in entertainment news, Judge dismisses lawsuit
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  from paramount streaming subscribers seeking
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  to block Warner Brosmerger. A federal judge on
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  Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from consumers
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  challenging the $111 billion merger between Paramount
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  and Warner Brothers. Judgerously, Martine Zalguin
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  noted the plaintiffs lacked standing in their
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  suit. She ruled they failed to establish cognizable
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  economic fallout for antitrust regulation. However,
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  she allowed them to revise and refile their complaint.
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  Judge Martin Zulgin will also preside over antitrust
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  cases from 12 state attorneys general and the
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  Writers Guild of America. These cases are set
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  for trial on March 2nd, 2027. Well, all righty
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  folks, it's time for the quote of the day. And
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  today, our quote comes from the American computer
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  scientist and internet pioneer, Vint Cerf. And
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  he said, The internet is a reflection of our
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  society and that mirror is going to be reflecting
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  what we see. And that's a wrap for this morning.
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  You can check out our Instagram, YouTube, and
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  TikTok for some captivating aerial videos with
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  local news and the weather reports. Have an amazing
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  day, my good friends. We'll see you tomorrow
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  with another episode of Sunny Mornings in Boston.