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Celtics Dominate Warriors, Dinosaur Prints Found in Alps · 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 Friday, February 20th. You'll be interested
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  to know. Today is National Love Your Pet Day.
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  This holiday invites pet parents and animal fans
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  to share treats, photos, and extra cuddles while
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  supporting shelters and adoption efforts across
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  the country. So now you know. And now, it's time
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  for the weather report. This morning, it's mostly
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  cloudy and it feels like 24 degrees with four
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  mile per hour wind. The sunset will take place
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  at 522 and it will rise again tomorrow at 628.
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  It looks like we're in for a wintry mix today
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  with a chance of snow and rain from mid -morning
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  till late afternoon, cloudy skies and a high
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  near 38. along with a light southeast wind. Tonight,
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  expect sleet and rain before 9, then more sleet
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  likely with a low around 28 and a northeast wind
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  of up to 13. For all you beach runners out there,
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  the first low tide Friday will be at 7 Eastern,
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  with a high tide at 1 Eastern. The nearshore
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  buoy at Cape Cod Bay reads 33 degrees for the
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  water temperature. Looking ahead in the weather.
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  Saturday will be cloudy with snow likely, a high
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  near 33 in light northeast winds, with around
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  1 to 2 inches possible and a chance of snow into
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  Saturday night. Sunday stays mostly cloudy with
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  only a slight chance of snow during the day,
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  but gusty northeast winds up to 24 miles per
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  hour are possible Sunday night and Monday brings
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  continued chances of snow. with north winds gusting
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  as high as 28 miles per hour. Bonjour, food enthusiasts!
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  Sunny mornings send you. In local news, New England
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  boasts some of the best open -air and maritime
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  museums in America, according to USA Today readers.
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  In its 2026 10 Best Readers Choice Awards, the
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  publication named Plymouth Patuxet Museums, the
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  number one open -air museum, and Maine Maritime
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  Museum in Bath, Maine, the number one maritime
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  museum. At Plymouth Patuxet Museums, visitors
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  can explore reproductions of the early Plymouth
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  colony and learn about Wampanoag culture. Old
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  Sturbridge Village ranked third for open -air
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  museums, while Mystic Seaport Museum took third
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  place for maritime museums. Concord Museum was
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  also recognized as the number two small -town
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  museum in America. Now on to sports. The National
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  Basketball Association plans to enact anti -tanking
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  rules for next season, sources say. Commissioner
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  Adam Silver informed the league's 30 general
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  managers that discussions to combat tanking have
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  intensified. Proposed changes include protecting
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  first -round draft picks only for Top 4 or Top
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  14 plus selections. Additionally, lottery odds
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  may freeze at the trade deadline, and teams won't
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  be allowed to pick in the Top 4 after consecutive
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  Bottom 3 finishes. Silver emphasized the importance
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  of addressing this issue, stating that it has
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  been worse this year than we have seen in recent
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  memory. Phoenix Suns owner Matt Ishbia called
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  tanking much worse than any prop bet scandal.
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  In local sports, the Celtics kicked off their
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  West Coast road trip with a solid 121 -110 victory
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  over the Warriors, leading by as many as 34 points
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  during the game. Jalen Brown dazzled with 23
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  points, 15 rebounds and 13 assists, marking his
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  third triple double of the season. Peyton Pritchard
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  contributed off the bench with 26 points, while
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  Sam Hauser added 16 points, including four three
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  -pointers. Kristaps Porzingis faced his former
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  team for the first time, scoring 12 points, and
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  Al Horford finished with five points in the matchup.
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  In top news, students are losing some interest
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  in computer science broadly. but gaining interest
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  in AI -specific majors and courses. For the first
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  time since the dot -com crash, computer science
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  enrollment dropped at University of California
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  campuses. System -wide, it fell 6 % last year,
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  after declining 3 % in the previous year, according
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  to the San Francisco Chronicle. Even as overall
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  college enrollment climbed 2 % nationally, students
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  are moving away from traditional computer science
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  degrees. However, the University of California
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  San Diego added a dedicated AI major this fall.
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  Enrollment numbers suggest students are opting
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  for AI programs to secure future employment.
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  In business news, robust demand from subprime
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  customers spurred growth in United States unsecured
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  loans last year. with their combined balances
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  surging 10 % to a new high of $276 billion, according
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  to TransUnion's Credit Industry Insights report.
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  Some 26 .4 million consumers carried those loans
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  as of end of December, up from 24 .5 million
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  a year earlier. As interest rates began to fall,
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  many consumers are consolidating their credit
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  card balances into unsecured loans. Vice President
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  and Head of United States Research and Consulting
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  at TransUnion. Predicard balances rose 4 % last
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  year to $1 trillion. In crypto movement, Bitcoin
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  is down 1 .5 % to about $67 ,000. Ethereum is
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  down half a percent to about $1900. And XRP is
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  down 3 .5 % to $1 .41. Moving on to a more local
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  vibe. In our community spotlight on health and
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  wellness, we are working with a national Pilates
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  studio to bring you some free classes, so listen
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  up. Check out Club Pilates with several locations
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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 science. In a remarkable discovery,
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  a mountain photographer has stumbled upon one
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  of the largest collections of Triassic dinosaur
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  prints ever found. Located in the Italian Alps,
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  the site features thousands of dinosaur tracks
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  on vertical rock faces. Photographer Elio della
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  Ferrara spotted these tracks last September in
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  the frail valley of Stelvio National Park. Some
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  prints, measuring up to 40 centimeters across,
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  date back approximately 210 million years. Paleontologist
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  Cristiano del Sasso leading the investigation,
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  expressed astonishment at their preservation.
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  The footprints reveal herds of large, herbivorous
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  dinosaurs, likely prosoropods, that roamed ancient
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  tidal flats and in entertainment news. Stephen
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  Soderbergh is speaking out about the scrapped
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  Star Wars movie, The Hunt for Ben Solo, starring
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  Adam Driver. In a recent interview, Soderbergh
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  expressed that it was no surprise to learn of
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  Kathleen Kennedy's frustrations regarding Disney's
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  decision to cancel the sequel to The Rise of
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  Skywalker. He said, we were all frustrated, noting
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  the two and a half years of work he and Driver
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  invested. Soderbergh added that he believed discussions
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  would focus on costs, but that never happened,
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  calling the situation insane. Fans are now rallying
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  for Disney to reconsider, showing their support
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  for the hunt for Ben Solo. 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 writer
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  and humorist Mark Twain. And he said, 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.