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Google's Space AI Leap, Patriots Face Bills with Injuries · 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, October 2nd. You'll be interested
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  to know. Today is World Smile Day. This day was
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  launched by Harvey Ball in 1999 to encourage
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  one act of kindness every year around the world
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  after he drew the original smiley face in 1963.
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  The memorable takeaway is that one small intentional
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  act of kindness can be shared widely. So now
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  you know. And now it's time for the weather report.
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  This morning, it's mostly sunny and it feels
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  like 69 degrees with nine miles per hour wind.
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  The sunset will take place at 621 and it will
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  rise again tomorrow at 643. It looks like we're
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  in for a partly sunny day with a high near 83.
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  at a moderate southwest breeze around 10 miles
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  per hour. If you're inland, it will hit a high
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  of 83 tonight. Expect a chance of rain showers
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  before 10 p .m., mostly cloudy skies with a low
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  around 58 and light winds around 10 miles per
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  hour. The nearshore gooey at Cape Cod Bay reads
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  62 degrees for the water temperature. Looking
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  ahead in the weather, Saturday will be sunny
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  with a high near 66 and a light northeast breeze
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  around 9 miles per hour, with patchy fog developing
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  after 2 a .m. and a low near 50. Sunday brings
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  patchy morning fog, then a slight chance of showers
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  with highs near 62 and mostly sunny skies, followed
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  by a mostly cloudy night with a low near 53 and
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  a 30 % chance of rain. Monday is partly sunny
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  with highs near 66. and a west wind up to 14
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  miles per hour. Then Tuesday turns colder and
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  breezy with highs near 57 and northwest gusts
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  to 24 miles per hour. Bonjour, food enthusiasts.
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  coffee. They are open every day from 8 to 5.
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  So stop on by and don't forget to tell them.
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  Sunny mornings send you. In local news, this
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  year's Question 5 asks voters whether to update
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  a law allowing taxpayers to receive money back
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  from the state. Originally passed in 1986, this
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  law, known as Chapter 62F, requires rebates when
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  tax collections exceed a certain threshold. The
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  law was triggered once in 1987, but largely faded
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  from public memory until a revenue surge in 2022
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  prompted $3 billion in refunds. Supporters argue
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  that the proposed changes would strengthen fiscal
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  guardrails. while opponents warn of potential
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  budget chaos leading to cuts in education and
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  public services. If passed, the changes would
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  take effect on July 1, 2027. Now on to sports.
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  Last night on Thursday Night Football, Cleveland
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  beat Pittsburgh 27 -24, and the game turned on
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  the final two minutes. Pittsburgh scored a touchdown
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  and converted a two -point try -to -tie -it -late.
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  But Dishon Watson answered by driving the offense
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  into range, and Andre Smate drilled a 56 -yard
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  field goal with 10 seconds left. It was the longest
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  field goal of his career, kicked through a swirling,
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  lakery wind that had given both kickers trouble
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  all night. Aaron Rodgers' last throw, a deep
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  heave trying to set up one more play, was intercepted,
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  and Cleveland ran out the clock. It's the third
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  straight week Watson has delivered in winning
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  time. The Browns improved to 3 -1 and take sole
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  possession of first place in the AFC North, while
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  the Steelers fall to 2 -2 in a game that was
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  theirs until the fourth quarter slipped away.
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  Elsewhere, wild card play got underway. Austin
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  Riley's eighth inning, 3 -run homer lifted Atlanta
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  past Philadelphia 5 -3. Chicago's White Sox beat
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  Houston 6 -3. The Yankees routed Boston 9 -0
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  behind 6, and a third scoreless innings from
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  Kam Schlittler. San Diego shut out the Cubs 8
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  -0 behind 7 scoreless innings from Michael King,
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  and home runs from Tatis, Machado, and Bogarts.
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  In local sports, the Bruins are in Winnipeg tonight
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  for the Jets home opener. Connor Helbig is serving
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  a trade request suspension, so backup Stuart
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  Skinner starts against a Bruins team that has
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  outscored Winnipeg 6 -0 in each of the last two
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  meetings, with Jeremy Swamen playing like the
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  league's best goalie early on. Charlie McAvoy's
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  suspension runs through October 13th, but Boston
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  did lock up forward Reichel with a one -year
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  extension. On the gridiron, the Patriots added
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  Drake May to the injury report with a shoulder
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  issue, but he practiced fully and starts Sunday
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  against Buffalo, with Gonzalez, Barmore, Gilliam,
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  and Moses all banged up, too. New England sits
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  one and two, hosting a bill steam atop the AFC
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  East. Boston College heads to Saint -Sainte -Eau
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  tomorrow at noon as a big underdog, looking for
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  payback after last year's 45 to 13 blowout. Quarterback
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  Mason McKenzie has been turnover -prone, and
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  the Eagles are battling illness and injuries,
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  including linebacker Bodi Kahown, questionable
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  after last month's scary hit. And the Red Sox's
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  season is over, swept by the Yankees, and outscored
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  18 to 4, with Ken Rosenthal saying the front
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  office asked too much of Roman Anthony building
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  the roster around him. In top news, Google has
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  launched Project Suncatcher, a significant step
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  towards artificial intelligence data centers
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  in space. The company has sent a refrigerator
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  -sized satellite into orbit aiming to explore
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  solar -powered AI data centers. This satellite
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  features specialty chips known as tensor processing
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  units designed for machine learning. These chips
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  will run a version of the company's Gemma AI
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  model for brief intervals due to heat management
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  constraints. The mission will test how the chips
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  endure the challenges of spaceflight. Pucull's
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  CDO anticipates capital expenditures for AI services
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  to reach between $180 billion and $190 billion
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  this year. In business news, trading volumes
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  for certain products on prediction market platforms
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  Kalshi and PolyMarket are raising questions from
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  some industry observers who fear the numbers
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  may be inflated. Observers have flagged a quirk
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  on PolyMarket's international exchange, where
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  markets with lower odds see greater activity.
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  Meanwhile, unusual trading behavior on Kalshi's
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  Ether contract has emerged, with specific trades
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  making up a large share of transactions. Concerns
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  over inflated volumes or wash trading persist.
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  but both companies deny any misconduct. Experts
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  suggest that the discrepancies warrant scrutiny,
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  especially as both companies eye public market
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  listings. In crypto movement, Bitcoin is up 1
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  % for the week to about $85 ,000. Ethereum is
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  up 1 .5 % to about $3 ,000. And XRP is down 1
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  % to $1 .50. Moving on to a more local vibe.
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  In our community spotlight on health and wellness,
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  we are working with a national Pilates studio
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  to bring you some free classes, so listen up.
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  Check out Club Pilates with several locations
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  in the Boston area. Pilates presents a comprehensive
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  wellness approach, cultivating strength, reducing
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  tension, and elevating mental well -being. Scientific
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  research affirms its benefits. So now you can
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  check out Club Pilates for a free class. With
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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 tech. Fervo Energy announced Thursday
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  morning that it has started selling electricity
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  from its Cape Station power plant to the grid
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  on September 30th, one day ahead of schedule.
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  This milestone makes Fervo the first enhanced
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  geothermal company to reach this key commercial
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  achievement. The power plant synchronized with
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  the grid about a week ago, bringing online the
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  first third of what will soon be a 100 megawatt
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  power plant. Fervo CEO Tim Latimer stated that
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  no team has ever built a project like this anywhere
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  in the world, and they did it ahead of schedule.
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  From groundbreaking to commercial operations,
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  The first block at Cape Station took 23 months
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  to complete. Fervo aims to complete future blocks
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  in as little as 18 months. And in entertainment
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  news, John Bernthal's mega -hit crime thriller
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  has officially received a spiritual follow -up.
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  It's been 10 months since Netflix released the
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  series His and Hers, which became one of its
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  most watched shows ever, drawing 104 million
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  views globally. Created by William Old Droid,
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  the six -episode thriller adapts Alice Feeney's
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  novel and stars John Bernthal and Tessa Thompson.
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  The team is collaborating again on a new adaptation
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  based on Feeney's upcoming book, Twist, set to
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  publish in February 2027. Unlike his and hers,
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  Twist offers a twistier narrative about love,
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  murder, and secrets. Well, all righty, folks.
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  It's time for the quote of the day. And today,
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  our quote comes from the American author and
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  motivational speaker, Leo Bascaglia. And he said,
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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.