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Boston Doctors Warn on Fidget Toy Burns, Patriots' $33M Offer · 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 Wednesday, July 29th. You'll be interested
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  to know. 68 years ago, today, in 1958, a new
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  civilian agency called National Aeronautics and
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  Space Administration was created to coordinate
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  the nation's space exploration, unite scientists
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  and engineers, and oversee ambitious rocket and
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  satellite programs. That milestone transformed
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  scientific capability, inspired generations towards
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  spaceflight, and laid foundations for decades
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  of exploration and international cooperation.
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  So now you know. And now, it's time for the weather
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  report. This morning, there's a slight chance
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  of showers and thunderstorms. and it feels like
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  70 degrees with 7 mile -per -hour wind. The sunset
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  will take place at 8 .04, and it will rise again
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  tomorrow at 5 .35. It looks like we're in for
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  some showers and thunderstorms likely today,
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  with some storms producing heavy rain, mostly
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  cloudy skies, and a high near 75, alongside a
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  moderate east wind, around 12 miles per hour,
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  gusting up to 24. If you're inland, it will hit
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  a high of 76 tonight. Expect showers and thunderstorms
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  with a low around 63 and a breezy east wind around
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  14 miles per hour, gusting as high as 25. The
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  near shore buoy at Cape Cod Bay reads 70 degrees
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  for the water temperature. Looking ahead in the
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  weather. Thursday will be showery with thunderstorms
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  likely, a high near 72, and a northeast wind
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  around 14 miles per hour with heavy rain possible.
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  Friday and Saturday turn much drier and warmer,
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  with highs near 78 on Friday and near 79 on Saturday.
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  Then Sunday climbs to around 82, with a slight
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  chance of afternoon and evening storms. Bonjour,
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  day from 8 to 5. So stop on by and don't forget
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  to tell them. Sunny mornings send you. In local
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  news, doctors at Shriners Children's Boston are
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  urging families to avoid microwaving gel -filled
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  fidget toys, as this trend is causing an alarming
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  number of severe burns. In the last six months,
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  at least one patient per week has been treated
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  for burns linked to this practice, which often
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  affects the face, neck, and hands. The hospital's
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  associate surgeon, Colleen Ryan, warned that
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  just 15 seconds in the microwave can heat the
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  gel inside to dangerous temperatures, leading
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  to explosions of hot gel. Nurse practitioner
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  Jillian Pasciucco hatted that children are also
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  at risk if the toys are left outside in warm
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  temperatures or in hot cars. Now on to sports.
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  Kaitlyn Clark and Kelsey Mitchell led the Indiana
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  Fever to their fourth straight win, defeating
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  the Seattle Storm 95 -85 at Climate Pledge Arena
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  on Tuesday. The Fever improved to 18 wins and
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  10 losses, while the Storm fell to 6 wins and
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  24 losses. Indiana outscored Seattle in the first
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  quarter, 37 -20. Clark scored 32 points and provided
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  7 assists. while Mitchell added 28 points. The
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  Fever became the first team in league history
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  to score 100 points in four consecutive games.
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  They lead the Women's National Basketball Association
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  in scoring with 95 .8 points per game. In local
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  sports, the Red Sox came up short in Oakland
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  last night, dropping game two four to three and
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  evening the series at one apiece. Conor Wong
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  went deep with two RBIs to lead Boston's offense,
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  but Jake Bennett couldn't lock it down on the
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  mound. Tonight they got a chance to take control
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  of the series. Patrick Sandoval starts for the
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  Sox against Oakland's Jacob Lopes at 9 .40 p
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  .m. Boston's been solid of late, sitting 7 -3
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  over their last 10, and they're fighting to stay
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  relevant in the AL East at 55 -51. They'll need
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  to bounce back quick if they want to build any
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  momentum heading forward. Meanwhile, the Patriots
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  are working through contract talks with cornerback
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  Christian Gonzalez. New England's offering him
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  $33 million a year to make him the highest paid
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  corner in the league and the richest player in
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  franchise history. Gonzalez wants to keep things
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  quiet, but he's staying focused at training camp.
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  Drake May's impressed with his commitment. calling
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  him the best corner in football. And over at
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  Boston College, the Eagles are losing tight end
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  Kalin Chudzinski for the season. The freshman
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  standout tore his Achilles and won't return until
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  next year. That's a major blow to an offense
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  trying to bounce back from a two -wind 2025.
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  In top news, American Airlines has lifted a national
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  ground stop after a system outage. The airline
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  confirmed on Tuesday night. A technology issue
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  briefly impacted connectivity for some of our
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  systems on Tuesday evening, American Airlines
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  said on X. Systems are coming back online now,
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  and flights are departing again. We put a temporary
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  ground stop in place while our teams worked to
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  resolve the issue. We apologize to our customers
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  for the inconvenience. According to the Air Traffic
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  Control System Command Center, all airports and
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  facilities were being impacted by the information
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  technology outage. A previous post from the airline
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  on X apologized for the outage and said its information
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  technology team is working as quickly as possible
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  to get the system restored. In business news,
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  44 states are aligned on one thing in their fight
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  against prediction markets. It's about sports
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  wagering. A coalition of 44 state attorneys general
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  wrote in a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading
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  Commission on Monday that the agency does not
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  have the power to regulate sports -related event
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  contracts on prediction market platforms. The
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  letter was sent as the public comment period
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  for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's
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  first proposed rule on prediction market regulation
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  expired Monday evening. The measure primarily
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  focuses on exchanges' sports offerings. The coalition,
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  led by Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson, stated
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  that the proposed rule exceeds the commission's
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  statutory powers. They urged the commission to
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  clarify that sports vets and gambling are subject
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  to state law. In crypto movement, Bitcoin is
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  up 1 % to $64 ,000. Ethereum is up 2 % to just
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  over $1 ,900. And HexRP is up 2 .5%. to $1 .09.
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  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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  Hingham, Brookline, and Framingham, just be sure
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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. OpenAI announced
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  on Tuesday that its rogue artificial intelligence
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  agent, which breached Hugging Face's platform,
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  also hacked multiple third -party accounts and
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  services during the attack. This unprecedented
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  security incident was more extensive than initially
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  disclosed during an internal test of Okanai's
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  latest artificial intelligence models. An updated
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  blog post revealed that four accounts linked
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  to publicly available services were compromised
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  as part of the hacking effort. OpenAI did not
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  specify which companies were affected, but stated
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  they were not impacted at the same level of severity
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  as Huckingface. Huckingface's forensic team concluded
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  that OpenAI's agent attempted to cheat on a benchmarking
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  test, seeking answers stored on its servers.
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  And in entertainment news, Ted Lasso encouraged
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  everyone to believe, and against all odds, it
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  worked. Co -creator and star Jason Sudeikis claimed
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  that the series would conclude after three seasons,
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  but the Apple television series is coming back
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  better than ever. Ted, Rebecca, and Roy are returning
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  in a managerial capacity for the Lady Greyhounds,
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  with odds stacked against them. The new cast
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  includes Tanya Reynolds as Alice Chilton, Abby
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  Hearn as Gemma, Jude Mack as Boots, Faye Marseille
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  as Lizzie. and twins Aisling Sharkey and Rex
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  Hayes as Nahum and Syobhan. These characters
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  will make their debut on August 5th, bringing
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  fresh dynamics to the team. 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 environmentalist
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  and author John Muir. And he said, The clearest
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  way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.
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  reminding us of the profound connection between
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  nature and our quest for exploration and understanding.
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  And that's a wrap for this morning. You can check
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  out our Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok for some
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  captivating aerial videos with local news and
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  the weather reports. Have an amazing day, my
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  good friends. We'll see you tomorrow with another
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  episode of Sunny Mornings in Boston.