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NASA Moon Mission Countdown, Boston Faces Floodplain Threat · 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 Tuesday, March 31st. You'll be interested
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  to know, 137 years ago, today, in 1889, Parisians
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  gathered to unveil the Eiffel Tower, a soaring
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  iron landmark created as the centerpiece of the
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  Exposition Universelle and a bold feat of engineering.
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  Its completion celebrated modern construction
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  techniques, showcased industrial progress, and
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  transformed the Paris skyline into a lasting
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  symbol of innovation and artistic ambition. So
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  now you know. And now, it's time for the weather
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  report. This morning, there's a chance of showers
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  and thunderstorms, and it feels like 55 degrees
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  with 6 mile per hour wind. The sunset will take
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  place at 7 .08, and it will rise again tomorrow
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  at 6 .23. It looks like we're in for some showers
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  and thunderstorms, likely before 5 p .m., then
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  a slight chance of more showers and thunderstorms,
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  mostly cloudy, with a high near 62, and a light
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  west breeze around 6 miles per hour. If you're
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  inland, it will hit a high of 62. Tonight. Expect
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  a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
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  before 8 p .m., then a chance of more showers
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  and thunderstorms, mostly cloudy, with a low
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  around 45 and a moderate southeast wind around
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  9 miles per hour. The near -shore GUI at Cape
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  Cod Bay reads 39 degrees for the water temperature.
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  Looking ahead in the weather. Wednesday will
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  be mostly cloudy, with rain showers likely a
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  high near 63, and west winds around 10 mph, gusting
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  up to 21. Showers remain likely Wednesday night
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  with a low near 39 before a cooler, cloudy Thursday
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  with highs near 41 in northeast breezes. Rain
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  chances linger into Thursday night. Friday into
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  Saturday turns milder with highs in the mid -60s
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  and scattered rain chances through the weekend.
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  with cooler nights in the mid -40s to low -50s.
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  to tell them. Sunny mornings send you. In local
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  news, Massachusetts is considering a voluntary
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  home buyback program for flood -prone areas as
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  communities like Hull face rising sea levels
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  and increasing threats from storms. Andrea Van
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  Leerhoek, a Hull resident, recalled how a nor
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  'easter in January of 2024 flooded entire neighborhoods,
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  stating, we were all kind of stuck. Christian
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  Crawford, Hull's Director of Climate Adaptation
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  and Conservation, emphasized the existential
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  threat faced by residents as 66 % of the town
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  lies in the floodplain. State officials are now
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  exploring a broader pilot program for home buyouts,
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  with Governor Maura Healey focusing on adaptation
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  efforts for coastal communities. Now on to sports.
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  Chicago White Sox rookie Muntak Amirakami has
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  done it again. The rookie slugger hit a home
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  run on Sunday off Milwaukee Brewers starter Brandon
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  Sproat. extending Chicago's lead to 5 -2 after
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  a first -inning grand slam by Colson Montgomery.
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  This home run marked Murakami's third in his
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  first three major league baseball games. He began
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  his career on Friday with a ninth -inning home
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  run and followed it with another on Saturday.
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  Murakami has joined Chase DeLotter, Trevor Story,
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  and Kyle Lewis as the fourth player to achieve
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  this milestone. At 26 years old, he is making
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  history in the majors. In local sports, the Seas
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  faced off against the Hawks in Atlanta, but fell
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  short, losing 112 -102 on Monday night. Anika
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  Okonwu and Jalen Johnson each scored 20 points
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  for Atlanta, with Okonwu adding 10 rebounds and
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  Johnson achieving his 45th double -double of
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  the season. The game was tightly contested, ending
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  the first half tied at 54, but the Hawks outscored
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  the Celtics 36 -22 in the third quarter. Jalen
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  Brown returned to the lineup, leading Boston
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  with 29 points and 10 rebounds. Up next, they
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  head to Miami on Wednesday night. In top news,
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  NASA began the countdown Monday for humanity's
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  first launch to the moon in 53 years. The 32
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  -story Space Launch System rocket is poised to
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  blast off Wednesday evening with four astronauts.
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  After a day in orbit around Earth, their Orion
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  capsule will propel them to the moon and back.
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  There are no stops, just a quick U -turn around
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  the moon. The nearly 10 -day flight will end
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  with a splashdown in the Pacific. Our team has
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  worked extremely hard to get us to this moment,
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  said launch director Charlie Blackwell -Thompson.
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  Certainly all indications are right now we are
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  in excellent, excellent shape. In business news,
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  Japan is placing a multibillion -dollar bet on
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  the U .S. housing market. Home construction is
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  slowing, but Japanese investors and builders
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  are moving in anyway, and Sumo owns 6 % of the
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  business in America. For more than a decade,
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  Japanese home builders have been tiptoeing into
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  the U .S. housing market with small, discreet
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  acquisitions of private American construction
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  companies. Their quiet era is over. Since 2020,
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  Japanese builders have announced or closed acquisitions
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  of 23 U .S. single -family home builders, more
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  than double the number from 2013 to 2019. Japanese
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  companies are accelerating their U .S. presence
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  at a moment when the American home construction
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  market is slowing down. In crypto movement, Bitcoin
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  is up 2 % to about $68 ,000. Ethereum is up 3
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  % to $2 ,000. And XRP is unchanged at $1 .32.
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  to tell them sunny morning sent you by. And now,
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  back to the show. Let's talk tech. Flying cars
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  will take off in American skies this summer.
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  The federal government announced a new pilot
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  program designed to get new kinds of ultralight
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  vehicles and electric vertical takeoff and landing
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  vehicles up and running around the country, even
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  if they are not fully Federal Aviation Administration
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  certified. New kinds of aircraft will start operating
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  in United States airspace as early as June. Eight
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  regions across the United States will take part
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  in a three -year pilot program. The companies
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  building the technology say their aircraft are
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  quieter, cheaper, and release fewer emissions
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  than helicopters or airplanes. And in entertainment
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  news, Gen Z is here to save theaters is the latest
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  report highlighting how this generation prefers
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  peachy movies and enjoys outings with their families
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  as social media content. Disney's Zootopia 2
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  has surprisingly become the winning Thanksgiving
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  offering, topping the box office with $1 .9 million
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  in worldwide ticket sales. Meanwhile, Disney's
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  live -action Lilo & Stitch has crossed the $1
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  billion mark. In an unexpected twist, Iron Lung,
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  a self -released film by YouTube star Mark Fischbach,
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  grossed $40 million. while Scream 7 opened to
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  $64 million, exceeding expectations. Gen Z is
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  indeed driving this resurgence in theaters. Well,
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  alrighty folks, it's time for the quote of the
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  day. And today, our quote comes from the American
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  inventor and visionary, Thomas Edison. And he
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  said, Restlessness and discontent are the first
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  necessities of progress. And that's a wrap for
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  this morning. You can check out our Instagram,
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  YouTube, and TikTok for some captivating aerial
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  videos with local news and the weather reports.
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  Have an amazing day, my good friends. We'll see
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  you tomorrow with another episode of Sunny Mornings
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  in Boston.