Latest / Sunny Mornings Boston / Boston Harbor Sharks Signal Recovery, Celtics Season Opener
Transcript
- 0:01Good morning and a warm welcome to your show,
- 0:05Sunny Mornings in Boston. I'm your host, Melissa,
- 0:09and it's Tuesday, October 20th. You'll be interested
- 0:13to know. Today is National Chicken and Waffles
- 0:16Day. The day celebrates the pairing of fried
- 0:20chicken with waffles popularized at the Well
- 0:22Supper Club in Harlem, which served fried chicken
- 0:25with waffles to jazz musicians after their late
- 0:28-night sets. That Harlem Supper Club helped cement
- 0:32an enduring culinary link between soulful music
- 0:35and late night comfort food. So now you know.
- 0:40And now, it's time for the weather report. This
- 0:47morning, it's partly sunny and it feels like
- 0:5041 degrees, with 7 miles per hour wind. The sunset
- 0:55will take place at 5 .52 and it will rise again
- 0:58tomorrow at 7 .04. It looks like we're in for
- 1:02a partly sunny day. with a high near 61 and a
- 1:05moderate north wind around 10 miles per hour,
- 1:09gusting up to 28 miles per hour. If you're inland,
- 1:13it will hit a high of 62 tonight. Expect partly
- 1:19cloudy skies with a low around 46 and a light
- 1:23northeast breeze around 8 miles per hour, gusting
- 1:26up to 23 miles per hour. The nearshore buoy at
- 1:31Cape Cod Bay reads 59 degrees for the water temperature.
- 1:36Looking ahead in the weather, Wednesday will
- 1:39be partly sunny, with a high near 55, and a northeast
- 1:43wind around 14 miles per hour, gusting to 24.
- 1:48Thursday and Friday trend milder, then cooler,
- 1:51with highs near 60 to Thursday and near 54 Friday,
- 1:55with north winds around 8 to 14 miles per hour
- 1:58and overnight lows in the low 40s. Bonjour, food
- 2:02enthusiasts! This podcast is brought to you by
- 2:06Versailles Cafe and Pastries in Encinitas. Nestled
- 2:10on El Camino Real South, just north of Encinitas
- 2:13Boulevard, this cafe is a haven for culinary
- 2:17delights. Indulge in their amazing Eggs Benedict
- 2:21or their gluten -free crepes. You can grab a
- 2:25panini for lunch or just breeze on through to
- 2:28get your morning coffee. They are open every
- 2:31day from 8 to 5. So stop on by, and don't forget
- 2:35to tell them. Sunny mornings send you. In local
- 2:40news, Boston Harbor is attracting sharks, and
- 2:44scientists say that is a good thing. Once one
- 2:47of America's dirtiest ports, Boston Harbor has
- 2:50transformed after decades of cleanup efforts.
- 2:54Now plenty of marine life, including sharks,
- 2:57call it home. New viewers Amanda Belland recently
- 3:01joined scientists at the New England Aquarium
- 3:04on a boat ride to tag the sharks. This exciting
- 3:07development highlights the successful restoration
- 3:10of a vital ecosystem in our historic New England
- 3:14city. The sitement aired on October 19th, 2026.
- 3:24Now on to sports. Last night on Monday Night
- 3:28Football, the San Francisco 49ers beat the Washington
- 3:33commanders 23 -17 at Levi's Stadium. Brock Purdy
- 3:39threw for 264 yards and a touchdown to George
- 3:43Kittle, and Christian McCaffrey ran for two scores.
- 3:48San Francisco led 23 -3 in the third quarter.
- 3:52Then Jaden Daniels threw two quick touchdown
- 3:55passes and cut it to six. With one minute and
- 3:5954 seconds left, Malik Mustafa forced the ball
- 4:03out as a Washington receiver hit the ground in
- 4:06the end zone, and that settled it. Purdy also
- 4:10passed 1 ,500 career attempts, and his 105 .6
- 4:15rating is now the highest in NFL history. The
- 4:2049ers are 6 -0, the commanders 1 -4 -1. In baseball,
- 4:26last night, the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland
- 4:29Guardians 7 -3 in Game 6 of the ALCS. Junior
- 4:35Caminero and Yandy Dias each hit a two -run homer
- 4:39late. Tampa Bay moves on to face the Milwaukee
- 4:43Brewers in the World Series in local sports.
- 4:49The Celtics open the season this afternoon at
- 4:513 o 'clock in Detroit against the Pistons. Jason
- 4:56Tadam is back from the Achilles tear with no
- 4:59injury designation. And so is newcomer Paul George,
- 5:03who makes his Celtics debut. Mitchell Robinson,
- 5:07Mike Conley Jr., and rookie Chris Sienak Jr.
- 5:12round out the new look group. Only Devin Carter
- 5:16is on the injury report. On the ice, the Bruins
- 5:20chase win number six tonight in Dallas, puck
- 5:22drop at eight o 'clock. They beat the Kings four
- 5:27to one Saturday. Jeremy Swainman starts in goal.
- 5:31Pavel Zacha, out Saturday with an upper body
- 5:35injury, is projected as a scratch. Dallas is
- 5:39watching Rue Pence and his hand injury. Over
- 5:43to the Patriots, who face a short week before
- 5:46Thursday night against the Bears. Receiver Romeo
- 5:50Dubs hurt his shoulder in Sunday's win over the
- 5:53Jets, and is on injured reserve. Alicia Vera
- 5:57Tucker and Morgan Moses are banged up on the
- 6:00line. Mike Frabel on whether they will play,
- 6:04whether they can make it back or not, I don't
- 6:06know. Meanwhile, Hanschen approved posting slugger
- 6:10Teruweki Sato, who hit 39 homers with 106 RBIs.
- 6:17No Red Sox bit is reported, but the Sox need
- 6:20power. In top news, Jade Kean has launched a
- 6:26spacecraft toward Mars on a groundbreaking mission
- 6:29to explore its moons and retrieve samples. Five
- 6:33global space agencies are collaborating on this
- 6:36five -year endeavor to land a robotic prospector
- 6:39and a rover on Phobos, the larger moon of Mars.
- 6:44The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency initiated
- 6:47the launch from Tanegashima Island. If successful,
- 6:51samples from Phobos could reach Earth by the
- 6:53year 2031. The mission, dubbed Martian Moons
- 6:57Exploration, has a budget of $578 million and
- 7:02aims to provide insights into the origins of
- 7:05Mars moons. Japan's mission is set to arrive
- 7:08at Mars by late next summer. In business news,
- 7:14JPMorgan Chase has made $5 billion in startup
- 7:18investments in the first year of its U .S. Security
- 7:21and Resiliency Initiative, indicating a faster
- 7:24than expected pace for finding opportunities
- 7:26in defense and supply chain firms. The bank may
- 7:30expand its program beyond the initial amount.
- 7:33according to Co -President Doug Pattenow. Most
- 7:37investments remain undisclosed, but known stakes
- 7:40include defense -related startups Hadrian and
- 7:43Castellian. In August, JP Morgan led a $1 .4
- 7:48billion funding round for Hadrian, which builds
- 7:51automated factories. The bank also participated
- 7:54in a $1 billion funding round for Castellian,
- 7:58known for its hypersonic missile, Blackbeard.
- 8:02And crypto movement. Bitcoin has unchanged over
- 8:06the weekend at $82 ,000. Ethereum is down 1 %
- 8:11to about $2 ,000. And XRP is down 2 % to $1 .30.
- 8:19Moving on to a more local vibe. In our community
- 8:23spotlight on health and wellness, we are working
- 8:26with a national Pilates studio to bring you some
- 8:29free classes, so listen up. Check out Club Pilates.
- 8:34With several locations in the Boston area, Pilates
- 8:37presents a comprehensive wellness approach, cultivating
- 8:41strength, reducing tension, and elevating mental
- 8:44well -being. Scientific research affirms its
- 8:47benefits. So now you can check out Club Pilates
- 8:52for a free class. With locations in Canton, Wellesley,
- 8:56Hingham, Brookline, and Framingham, just be sure
- 9:00to tell them Sunny Morning sent you by. And now,
- 9:04Back to the show. Let's talk science. In a remarkable
- 9:10discovery, a farmer in Egypt stumbled upon a
- 9:13pink stone, leading authorities to unearth the
- 9:16remains of two colossal statues of Ramses II
- 9:19beneath his property. The Egyptian Ministry of
- 9:22Tourism and Antiquities revealed that one statue's
- 9:26head might have measured nearly 28 feet tall,
- 9:29suggesting a significant building site commissioned
- 9:32by the pharaoh. Archaeologists found an inscribed
- 9:35pink granite block over four feet long bearing
- 9:38titles of Ramesses II. The site, located in Bibbate
- 9:43El Hager, is known for its ancient temple dedicated
- 9:46to the goddess Isis, highlighting Ramesses II's
- 9:49legacy as a prolific builder. And in entertainment
- 9:55news, Netflix's Altered Carbon is a stunning
- 10:00adaptation of Richard Morgan's award -winning
- 10:02novel, embracing the cyberpunk genre fully. Premiering
- 10:07in 2018, it explores a future where the wealthy
- 10:11can evade death through digital consciousness
- 10:13stored in a stack. Joel Kinnaman portrays Tekishi
- 10:17Kovacs, a former freedom fighter, resurrected
- 10:21250 years after his demise to solve a murder.
- 10:26The series delves into themes of inequality,
- 10:29revealing a world where the rich thrive at the
- 10:31expense of the disenfranchised. highlighting
- 10:34the brutal consequences of unchecked technology.
- 10:38Overall, Altered Carbon critiques the darker
- 10:41sides of human advancement, making it a compelling
- 10:44watch. Well, all righty, folks. It's time for
- 10:49the quote of the day. And today, our quote comes
- 10:53from the American author and motivational speaker,
- 10:56Zig Ziglar. And he said, You don't have to be
- 11:00great to start, but you have to start to be great.
- 11:05And that's a wrap for this morning. You can check
- 11:08out our Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok for some
- 11:12captivating aerial videos with local news and
- 11:15the weather reports. Have an amazing day, my
- 11:19good friends. We'll see you tomorrow with another
- 11:22episode of Sunny Mornings in Boston.