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Red Sox Turmoil Amid Cora Firing, Bruins Face Elimination · 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 Monday, April 20th. You'll be interested
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  to know, 20 years ago, today, in 2006, construction
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  crews began building the Freedom Tower at the
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  World Trade Center site, marking the start of
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  a symbolic skyline renewal. The project represented
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  a milestone in resilience and design, aiming
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  to honor victims while creating a new civic landmark
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  and inspiring confidence in the city's future.
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  So now you know. And now, it's time for the weather
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  report. This morning, it's sunny and it feels
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  like 37 degrees with 6 mile per hour wind. The
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  sunset will take place at 7 .38 and it will rise
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  again tomorrow at 5 .40. It looks like we're
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  in for a sunny day with a high near 61, accompanied
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  by a light northeast breeze around 6 miles per
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  hour. If you're inland, it will hit a high of
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  62. Tonight, expect clear skies with a low around
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  41 and a light northeast wind around 5 miles
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  per hour. The near -shore GUI at Cape Cod Bay
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  reads 45 degrees for the water temperature. Looking
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  ahead in the weather. Tuesday will be sunny with
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  a high near 55 and a light northeast breeze of
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  5 to 10 miles per hour. A chance of showers arrives
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  late Tuesday night and continues Wednesday, then
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  rain becomes likely Wednesday night into Thursday
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  with highs sinking to the mid -50s and lows in
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  the mid -40s. Northwest winds pick up Friday
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  around 14 miles per hour with lingering chances
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  on by and don't forget to tell them. Sunny mornings
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  send you. In local news, multiple Boston Red
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  Sox players are expressing their anger and confusion
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  over the team's recent decision to fire former
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  manager Alex Cora and several coaches. Veteran
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  shortstop Trevor Story described Cora and the
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  others as some of the best coaches in the world,
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  feeling they didn't get a fair shot. He also
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  stated that the explanation from chief baseball
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  officer Craig Breslow was unsatisfactory, emphasizing
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  a desire for better communication. Rakehander
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  Garrett Whitlock added that the front office
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  made it clear that players should focus solely
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  on playing baseball. highlighting the disconnect
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  between management and the team. Now on to sports.
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  Mike Tomlin spoke with NBC's Maria Taylor about
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  his departure from the Pittsburgh Steelers. He
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  stated that he walked away, in part, due to the
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  recent lack of playoff success, and he believes
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  some of his veterans are worthy of the excitement
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  and the optimism associated with new leadership.
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  Tomlin, in his first interview since resigning
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  in February, noted that this was probably not
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  an overnight decision. He mentioned a sense of
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  loneliness with leadership and felt it was a
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  good time for him personally as well as for the
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  organization. The Steelers have not won a playoff
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  game since 2016. In local sports, the Red Sox
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  bounced back from coaching upheaval to take down
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  Baltimore yesterday. 5 -3, with Connolly Early
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  dominant on the mound and Wilson Contreras driving
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  in two runs. Now they head to Toronto tonight
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  facing the Blue Jays with an interim manager
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  situation still unresolved, a significant distraction
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  for a team fighting to get above .500. That's
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  a critical matchup as Ranger Suarez takes the
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  ball against Dylan Cease. Over on the ice, it's
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  a different story. The Bruins are facing elimination
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  after getting torched by Buffalo 6 -1 yesterday
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  at home. Six different Sabres found the back
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  of the net in a dominant opening period that
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  set the tone. Boston heads to Kaybank Center
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  tomorrow night for Game 5, needing a sharp physical
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  response or their season ends. David Pasternak
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  and the power play have to show up when it matters
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  most. Meanwhile, the Celtics are one win away
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  from advancing. They crushed Philly 128 -96 last
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  night behind Peyton Pritchard's 32 points and
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  Jason Tatum's continued recovery from an Achilles
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  injury. Boston can close it out tomorrow at home
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  against a 76ers team missing Joel Embiid. Tip
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  -off is at 7. In top news. The Pentagon's push
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  to secure rare earth elements leads to the small
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  port city of Kuantan, Malaysia. Here, Linus Rare
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  Earths, an Australian company, has begun producing
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  heavy rare earths, a sector dominated by China.
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  Amanda Lackeys, Linus' chief executive, stated,
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  no one had made a separated heavy rare earth
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  outside of China in 20 years. Paul LaRouche,
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  the company's chief operating officer, claimed
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  it had actually been 30 years. When China halted
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  exports during trade tensions last year, automobile
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  factories in the United States and Europe had
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  to stop production. Now Linus is at the forefront
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  of efforts to counter Beijing's monopoly power.
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  In business news, key home price data is expected
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  Tuesday, where listing prices are rising and
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  falling most this spring. Home price gains likely
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  inched up in February, according to estimates
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  for a closely watched gauge that is due on Tuesday.
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  However, whether you notice prices ramping up
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  or dropping this spring depends on where you
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  live. Home price changes have been tepid over
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  the past year, according to Standard & Poor's
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  CoreLogic Case -Shiller Home Price Indices data.
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  In January, the index was 1 .2 % higher from
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  one year prior. its slowest gain since mid -2023.
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  Economists foresee February prices in the 20
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  -city index rising 1 .3 % from one year prior.
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  In crypto movement, Bitcoin is up 6 .5 % over
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  the weekend to about $79 ,000. Ethereum is up
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  3 % to about $2 ,000. And XRP is up 2%. to $1
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  .44. Moving on to a more local vibe. In our community
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  spotlight on health and wellness, we are working
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  strength, reducing tension, and elevating mental
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  well -being. Scientific research affirms its
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  for a free class. With locations in Canton, Wellesley,
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  Hingham, Brookline, and Framingham, just be sure
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  to tell them, sunny morning sent you by. And
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  now, back to the show. Let's talk science. One
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  side of Earth is rapidly getting colder than
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  the other. It is a strange tale of two hemispheres.
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  Research shows the Pacific Hemisphere is losing
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  heat faster than the African Hemisphere. The
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  heat originates from Earth's molten interior,
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  which causes continental drift. Landmass traps
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  more heat than seafloor surface, indicating a
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  hotter Pacific in the past. Scientists from the
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  University of Oslo report that one side of Earth's
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  interior is losing heat much faster than the
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  other. A study published in Geophysical Research
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  Letters uses computer models to analyze how insulated
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  each hemisphere was by continental mass. And
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  in entertainment news, the musical performance
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  -packed movie about pop star Michael Jackson
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  is a hit, despite negative reviews from critics.
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  Hollywood's bet that audiences want to celebrate
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  Michael Jackson paid off this weekend. as a biopic
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  about the pop star opened to an estimated $217
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  .4 million in worldwide sales. Michael grossed
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  $97 million domestically and $120 .4 million
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  internationally. Despite largely negative reviews,
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  audiences flocked to the uplifting film packed
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  with classic songs like Bad and Thriller. Michael
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  earned an upgrade from opening night audiences,
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  with about 60 % of ticket buyers being women.
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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 architect and visionary, Frank Lloyd
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  Wright. And he said, The mother art is architecture.
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  Without an architecture of our own, we have no
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  soul of our own civilization. And that's a wrap
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  for 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.