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Massachusetts Expands Abortion Rights, Red Sox Skid Continues · 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, August 11th. You'll be interested
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  to know. 34 years ago, today, in 1992. Mall of
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  America opened its doors in Bloomington, Minnesota
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  as a massive shopping and entertainment complex,
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  bringing dozens of stores and indoor amusement
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  park. and immersive attractions under one roof.
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  The opening marked a milestone in retail and
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  family entertainment by redefining the shopping
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  experience, drawing visitors nationwide and inspiring
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  a new generation of destination centers. So now
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  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 74 degrees with 6 mile per hour wind. The
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  sunset will take place at 748 and it will rise
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  again tomorrow at 548. It looks like we're in
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  for a sunny day with a high near 89 and a light
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  west breeze around 8 miles per hour. If you're
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  inland, it will hit a high of 90 tonight. Expect
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  partly cloudy skies with a low around 67 and
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  a calm west wind around 6 miles per hour. The
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  nearshore gooey at Cape Cod Bay reads 73 degrees
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  for the water temperature. Looking ahead in the
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  weather. Wednesday will be sunny with a high
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  near 85 and light north winds 2 to 7 miles per
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  hour, becoming partly cloudy overnight with a
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  low around 67. Thursday brings a 50 % chance
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  of rain showers after 8 a .m. with mostly sunny
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  skies and a high near 85, then a 40 % chance
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  Thursday night with lows near 66 and west winds
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  around 7 miles per hour. Friday and Saturday
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  turn drier with highs falling to near 79 Friday
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  and the upper 70s Saturday with northwest winds
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  near 10 miles per hour Friday and lighter north
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  to southwest breezes Saturday night. Bonjour,
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  to get your morning coffee. They are open every
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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, Governor Maura Healey signed new legislation
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  on Monday expanding abortion rights in Massachusetts,
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  removing the previous four -part framework for
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  abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy. This new
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  law allows a physician to perform an abortion
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  based on their professional judgment, making
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  Massachusetts one of 10 states without a statutory
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  gestational limit on abortion. Healy emphasized
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  the importance of this change, stating that abortion
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  care is health care and aims to ensure patients
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  can access necessary care without traveling out
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  of state. However, opponents argue this weakens
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  protections for unborn children and reduces oversight
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  of later pregnancy abortion procedures. Now on
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  to sports. In this week's injury report, starting
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  pitchers experienced significant setbacks across
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  baseball. The Rays lost Griffin Jacks due to
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  an elbow injury. and Nathan Ivaldi was placed
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  on the 15 -day injury list with right posterior
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  elbow inflammation. Hunter Green's season is
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  over as he undergoes season -ending elbow surgery.
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  On a positive note, Blake Snell is set to return
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  on Tuesday against the Royals after surgery to
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  remove loose bodies from his left elbow. In local
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  sports, the Red Sox dropped their third straight
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  last night, falling 1 -2 to the Blue Jays in
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  Toronto, despite six sharp innings from Sunny
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  Gray, with Sadon Raffaella driving in the lone
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  run. Boston is back at Roger's center tonight,
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  Patrick Sandoval opposing Toronto's Dylan Cease,
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  first pitch 7 -7, looking to snap the skid after
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  riding a hot streak into this series. Adley Rutchman
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  makes his Red Sox debut tonight, too. finally
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  healthy after a wrist injury and ready to add
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  pop to a lineup that's gone cold. Over in Foxborough,
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  left tackle Will Campbell is back to full practice
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  after an arm injury. That's welcome news with
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  Drake May's blindside in mind. The Patriots host
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  the Colts for joint practices today ahead of
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  Thursday's preseason opener. On the ice, the
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  Bruins locked in New Jersey numbers for the fall
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  with J .J. Peterka taking 10 and will borge in
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  17, as Marco Sturm's roster takes shape for camp.
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  The Celtics, meanwhile, are remembering one of
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  their own. Hall of Fame coach and five -time
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  champion Don Nelson died Sunday at 86, with tributes
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  pouring in from around the league. And Boston
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  College kicker Luca Lombardo landed on the Lou
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  Grozo Award preseason watch list as fall camp
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  opens. In top news, Mark Zuckerberg said in an
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  essay published on Metta's website that artificial
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  intelligence tools should be shared with as many
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  people and businesses as possible. Zuckerberg
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  expressed his belief that superintelligence will
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  advance national security, lead to greater economic
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  prosperity, and promote scientific and creative
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  achievement. He envisions free or affordable
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  access to artificial intelligence for all. aiming
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  to provide tools to billions of people. Zuckerberg
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  disputes concerns about job displacement, stating
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  that new job types will emerge instead. Mata
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  will create a Futures for Everyone fund to benefit
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  communities impacted by data centers, investing
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  $1 billion. He also suggests resuming the release
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  of open -source models to enhance competition.
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  In business news, eBay may dodge a GameStop takeover,
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  but there is a new twist in the Ryan Cohen saga.
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  Bloomberg reports that GameStop could propose
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  collaborating with eBay in a way other than a
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  merger. Some analysts doubt whether eBay would
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  benefit much from such a deal. GameStop chief
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  executive officer Ryan Cohen is reportedly weighing
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  whether to back off his plan to buy eBay outright
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  and to find a different way to work with the
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  online auction site instead. However, some analysts
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  say the benefits to eBay from such a partnership
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  are not so obvious. Bloomberg also reported that
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  Cohen is now considering proposing a partnership,
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  or joint venture, that would enable eBay to leverage
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  GameStop's roughly 1 ,600 United States retail
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  locations. GameStop, in turn, would try to get
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  a spot on eBay's board, according to Bloomberg.
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  In crypto movement, Bitcoin is down 2%. to $64
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  ,000. Ethereum is down 2 .5 % to just under $1
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  ,900. And XRP is down 2 % to $1 .01. Moving on
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  to a more local vibe. In our community spotlight
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  on health and wellness, we are working with a
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  national Pilates studio to bring you some free
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  classes, so listen up. Check out Club Pilates.
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  With several locations in the Boston area, Pilates
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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 now
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  back to the show. Let's talk tech. OpenAI reportedly
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  completed a $7 billion employee tender offer.
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  The company bought back $7 billion worth of shares
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  from employees to provide liquidity to its workforce.
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  This deal, reported by Bloomberg, valued OpenAI
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  at $852 billion, the same as its most recent
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  fundraising round in March. which added $122
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  billion to the company's resources. OpenAI filed
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  confidentially with the Securities and Exchange
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  Commission in June in preparation for a potential
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  initial public offering later this year. However,
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  a tender offer suggests that an initial public
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  offering may not be forthcoming soon. With many
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  tech companies remaining private longer, Private
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  tenders have proven useful for firms to allow
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  employees to realize the value of their stock
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  compensation without public offering difficulties.
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  OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment
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  by publication time. Last month, OpenAI Chief
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  Executive Officer Sam Altman stated that, We
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  did not have our best 12 months ever, which is
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  mostly my fault, but we are about to have our
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  best 12 months to date. Firms going public typically
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  want to show strong financial results to attract
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  investors, and the Wall Street Journal reported
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  in April that the company missed internal financial
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  goals. While OpenAI's incredible growth in products
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  are likely to generate massive interest in public
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  markets, the potential debut of rival Anthropic,
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  which was reportedly profitable earlier this
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  year, gives the company a reason to ensure it
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  puts its best face forward. The tender could
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  signal that the much anticipated offering will
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  wait for OpenAI's new strategy of focusing on
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  its enterprise business to gain traction. And
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  in entertainment news, J .J. Abrams is addressing
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  fan theories surrounding the new sci -fi adventure,
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  The End of Oak Street. Directed by David Robert
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  Mitchell, the film features a family led by Anne
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  Hathaway and Ewan McGregor. whose suburban street
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  is transported to prehistoric times among dinosaurs.
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  Abrams clarified at the Los Angeles premiere
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  that the film is not connected to his Cloverfield
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  franchise. The only connection to our Cloverfield
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  movies is that Ewan's partner is Mary Elizabeth
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  Winstead, he explained. He also expressed excitement
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  about dinosaurs interacting in a suburban setting.
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  Abrams shared his pride in his daughter, pop
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  star Gracie Abrams as she makes her acting debut.
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  I know how hard she's working, he said. The end
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  of Oak Street opens in theaters on Friday. Well,
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  all righty, folks, it's time for the quote of
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  the day. And today, our quote comes from the
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  American author and philosopher Eric Hoffer.
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  And he said, in times of change, learners inherit
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  the earth. while the learned find themselves
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  beautifully equipped to deal with a world that
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  no longer exists. And that's a wrap for this
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  morning. You can check out our Instagram, YouTube,
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  and TikTok for some captivating aerial videos
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  with local news and the weather reports. Have
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  an amazing day, my good friends. We'll see you
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  tomorrow with another episode of Sunny Mornings
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  in Boston.