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Tick Bite Surge in Northeast, Celtics Eye Series Win · 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, April 30th. You'll be interested
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  to know, 33 years ago, today in 1993, Tim Berners
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  -Lee released the World Wide Web to public access,
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  enabling anyone to view and link documents across
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  computers using hypertext and simple browsing
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  tools. This opened a new era of global information
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  sharing, sparking innovation in communication,
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  commerce, and education that transformed everyday
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  life. So now you know. And now, it's time for
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  the weather report. This morning, rain showers
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  are likely, and it feels like 48 degrees, with
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  4 mile per hour wind. The sunset will take place
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  at 7 .42 and it will rise again tomorrow at 5
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  .36. It looks like we're in for some rain showers
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  and patchy fog today, staying cloudy, with a
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  high near 57 and a light southeast breeze around
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  5 miles per hour. If you're inland, it will hit
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  a high of 57. Tonight. Expect mostly cloudy skies
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  with a low around 47 and calm winds around 5
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  mph. The nearshore buoy at Cape Cod Bay reads
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  48 degrees for the water temperature. Looking
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  ahead in the weather. Friday will be mostly sunny
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  with a high near 61 and a west wind around 7
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  to 10 mph, becoming partly cloudy and cooler
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  near 42 overnight. Saturday brings a 30 % chance
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  of afternoon and evening rain showers and a high
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  near 59. Then Sunday remains partly sunny with
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  a high near 58 and northwest winds up to 13 miles
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  per hour. Bonjour, food enthusiasts. This podcast
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  Just north of Encinitas Boulevard, this cafe
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  breeze on through to get your morning coffee.
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  They are open every day from 8 to 5. So stop
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  on by and don't forget to tell them. Sunny Morning
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  sends you. In local news. Emergency room visits
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  for tick bites across the Northeast have climbed
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  to their highest level for this time of year
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  in nearly a decade, according to new data from
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  the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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  Local health officials state that tick season
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  is upon us, despite the harsh, snowy winter that
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  many assumed would slow down tick activity. Julie
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  McCarthy, the town of Needham's Assistant Public
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  Health Director for Nursing and Behavioral Health,
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  Explain that ticks are hardy and will find places
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  to hide in long grass, bushes, and burrows. The
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  tick population in the Northeast has gradually
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  increased over the last decade due to growing
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  populations, expanded geographic spread, and
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  improved awareness. Now on to sports. Saudi Arabia
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  is pulling funding from Live Golf. Its star players
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  face a painful road back. Liv plans to inform
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  players and staff by Thursday that Saudi Arabia's
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  public investment fund will no longer finance
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  the league after this season. The move signals
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  potential demise for the upstart that disrupted
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  professional golf, investing billions, and attracting
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  top players. The writing had been on the wall
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  for nearly a month. Recent statements from the
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  Public Investment Fund did not include the leak
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  in its five -year vision. While LIV has expanded
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  the sport globally, its operations no longer
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  align with the fund's new investment phase. In
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  local sports, the Celtics have one chance to
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  close it out. Game six tonight in Philadelphia
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  at 8 o 'clock, and Boston leads the first -round
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  series 3 -2. The Celtics blew a 13 -point lead
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  last time, but they're 21 -6 on the road after
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  a loss this season. Jason Tadum is back to full
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  strength, and Peyton Pritchard has been unstoppable
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  off the bench. Joel Embiid is probable for the
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  Sixers after his appendectomy, but this is Boston's
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  moment to advance. On the ice, the Bruins face
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  elimination tomorrow night at TD Garden. Buffalo
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  leads the series 3 -2, and this is Game 6, do
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  or die. Jeremy Swayman has been stellar in net,
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  stopping 25 shots in Game 5 on Tuesday when David
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  Pasternak buried the overtime winner. But Victor
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  Arvidson is out with an upper -body injury, and
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  the Sabres are hungry, riding a strong road record
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  since December. Puck drops at 7 .30. Meanwhile,
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  the Red Sox are in free fall. Boston is 12 -19,
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  just dropped both games in Toronto, and now they
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  have lost ace Garrett Crochet to shoulder inflammation.
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  The rotation is decimated with four starters
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  down. Brian Vejo has posted a 9 .0 error this
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  season, worst in the ale. They host Houston tomorrow
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  at Fenway at 7 -10. Desperate for a win before
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  a brutal 10 -game stretch with no days off kicks
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  in. In top news, the United States economy is
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  facing significant challenges. At his Senate
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  confirmation hearing last week, Kevin Warsh stated
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  that the Federal Reserve needed a serious overhaul,
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  advocating for messier meetings and a good family
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  fight. On Wednesday, Jerome Powell announced
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  he would not be leaving immediately, breaking
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  a 75 -year precedent where outgoing chairs left
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  as successors took over. Three of Powell's colleagues
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  indicated they are not inclined to cut interest
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  rates soon. This decision follows a criminal
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  investigation into Powell's oversight of building
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  renovations, highlighting the Trump administration's
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  pressure on the Federal Reserve. In business
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  news. Michael Burry sounds the alarm on what
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  is coming for 401ks. If you own an index fund
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  in your 401k, the composition of your account
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  could change in the coming months without any
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  action on your part. SpaceX filed confidentially
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  for what could become the largest initial public
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  offering in market history on April 1st, and
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  it aims to be added to the Nasdaq 100 shortly
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  after it begins trading. Michael Burry believes
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  ordinary investors holding 401k accounts are
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  being positioned to fund insider profits on one
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  of the most anticipated initial public offerings
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  Wall Street has ever seen. Nasdaq overhauled
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  its index methodology on March 30th, introducing
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  the fast entry provision. In crypto movement,
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  Bitcoin is down 1 .5 % to about $75 ,000. Ethereum
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  is down 2 % to about $2 ,000. And XRP is down
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  1 % to $1 .36. 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. On April 22, 2026, the topic
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  of design is highlighted. Artificial intelligence
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  is eliminating one of the biggest bottlenecks
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  in car design. Aerodynamics is necessary, yet
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  time -consuming in this process. For General
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  Motors and Jaguar Land Rover, artificial intelligence
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  is stepping in to help. Aerodynamics significantly
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  impacts fuel efficiency. especially in electric
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  vehicles, enhancing battery weight offset and
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  overall range. However, aerodynamic analyses
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  are excruciatingly slow. Brian Stiles, Director
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  of Design Innovation and Technology Operations
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  at General Motors, states, it can take days or
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  weeks to get a full set of analysis back on the
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  performance of that surface. And in entertainment
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  news… Darth Vader arrives at Star Wars Land,
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  marking a major shift in direction for Disneyland.
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  His presence, along with that of Leia, Han, and
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  Luke, has certainly ignited excitement among
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  fans. While not every crowd may cheer a known
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  notorious villain, the Disneyland faithful erupted
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  in applause as Vader entered Star Wars Galaxy's
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  Edge. Caloran has officially been evicted from
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  Black Spire Outpost. making way for Vader, who
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  will appear multiple times daily. In his first
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  two appearances, he spoke of his quest to hunt
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  down the young Jedi, flanked by two classic stormtroopers.
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  Well, alrighty folks, it's time for the quote
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  of the day. And today, our quote comes from the
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  American journalist and author, Robert Quillen.
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  And he said, Discussion is an exchange of knowledge.
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  Argument in exchange of ignorance. And that's
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  a wrap for this morning. You can check out our
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  Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok for some captivating
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  aerial videos with local news and the weather
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  reports. Have an amazing day, my good friends.
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  We'll see you tomorrow with another episode of
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  Sunny Mornings in Boston.