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Boston's $10B Flood Defense Plan, Red Sox Chase History · 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, July 21st. You'll be interested
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  to know. 57 years ago, today, in 1969, Neil Armstrong
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  stepped onto the lunar surface as part of the
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  Apollo 11 mission, calling it a small step for
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  humanity. This achievement marked a defining
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  milestone in human exploration, proving that
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  crude spaceflight could reach other worlds and
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  inspiring generations. So now you know. And now
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  it's time for the weather report. This morning,
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  it's partly sunny and it feels like 67 degrees
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  with five mile per hour wind. The sunset will
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  take place at 812. and it will rise again tomorrow
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  at 527. It looks like we're in for a mostly cloudy
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  day with a slight chance of rain showers and
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  thunderstorms in the afternoon and a high near
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  82 accompanied by a moderate south wind around
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  12 miles per hour. If you're inland, it will
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  hit a high of 83 tonight. Expect cloudy skies
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  with a chance of showers and thunderstorms, a
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  low around 69, and light winds around 10 miles
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  per hour. The near shore buoy at Cape Cod Bay
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  reads 69 degrees for the water temperature. Looking
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  ahead in the weather. Wednesday starts mostly
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  cloudy with showers and thunderstorms likely
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  before mid -morning and a high near 85. with
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  a southwest wind near 10 miles per hour and lesser
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  rainfall amounts expected. Wednesday night brings
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  a chance of showers and thunderstorms with a
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  low around 65 and west winds near 10 miles per
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  hour. Then Thursday turns sunny with highs near
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  81 and lighter northwest winds. Bonjour, food
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  enthusiasts! This podcast is brought to you by
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  on El Camino Real South, just north of Encinitas
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  Boulevard, this cafe is a haven for culinary
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  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, the U .S. Army Corps of Engineers has released
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  a draft plan to safeguard Boston from flooding,
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  proposing over 20 projects along the city's coastline
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  with an estimated cost of $10 billion. This comprehensive
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  strategy aims to prevent $41 billion in future
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  flood damage, focusing on neighborhoods particularly
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  at risk, such as East Boston and South Boston.
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  Mayor Michelle Wu emphasized the urgency, stating,
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  Boston leads with bold action to protect our
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  communities and our future. The draft is open
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  for public comment until September 18th, and
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  the study is set to be completed by 2028. Now
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  onto sports. Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei
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  Otani will not be taking the mound anytime soon.
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  According to ESPN's Jorge Castillo, Dodgers manager
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  Dave Roberts announced that Otani will miss his
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  scheduled start Wednesday against the Philadelphia
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  Phillies due to irritation in his left knee.
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  Roberts mentioned that Otani will throw off the
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  mound later this week, but his return date remains
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  unclear. The manager stated that the issue has
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  not gotten better, and that shutting down Otani
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  will give us the best chance to be out of the
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  woods entirely. Otani has not pitched since a
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  July 3rd win over the San Diego Padres. In local
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  sports, the Red Sox are on the verge of history.
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  They beat Baltimore 6 -5, last night at Fenway,
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  extending their winning streak to 14 straight
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  games. And tonight they have a chance to tie
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  the franchise record of 15 wins, set 80 years
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  ago, by the 1946 team. Caleb Durbin delivered
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  the go -ahead homer and has become a central
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  figure in this run. Wilson Contreras went three
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  for four with two R -gith. Aroldis Chapman picked
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  up his 20 -second save. Boston is now 51 -48,
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  positioned for a wild -card berth. and just three
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  games ahead of Baltimore in the division chase.
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  First pitch tonight is 7 -10. Meanwhile, the
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  Patriots kick off training camp today as rookies
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  report to the facility. Veterans arrive Friday
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  with the first public practice Saturday at 10
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  -30. This camp gives Drake May his first extended
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  work with off -season additions, A .G. Brown
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  and Romeo Doves. the number one receiver New
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  England has been searching for. After reaching
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  the Super Bowl last season, the Patriots enter
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  2026 with different expectations and plenty of
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  momentum heading into the fall. In top news,
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  the Food and Drug Administration remains focused
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  on Taylor Farms lettuce as a source of cyclospora
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  illness, despite retracting a positive test result.
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  The agency announced that a previous test identifying
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  the parasite in lettuce from Taylor Farms de
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  Mexico was deemed a false positive. The FDA continues
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  to recommend not eating iceberg lettuce from
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  Taylor Farms, as products were sold at Taco Bell
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  locations in five states and distributed in 27
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  states. Over 1 ,600 confirmed cases of cyclospora
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  have been reported, with 94 individuals hospitalized.
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  Health officials stress that cooking produced
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  to 158 degrees Fahrenheit and thoroughly washing
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  it can reduce infection risk. In business news,
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  cheap Chinese artificial intelligence models
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  could actually be a boon for Nvidia, Micron,
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  and other chip stocks. Moonshot AI's Kimi K3
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  may encourage a surge in enterprise workloads,
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  providing a long -term tailwind to chip demand.
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  The emergence of low -cost Chinese artificial
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  intelligence has reunited the debate over the
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  substantial amounts of money that companies are
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  spending on memory components and compute power.
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  However, this development is not necessarily
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  negative for United States semiconductor heavyweights,
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  whose shares have soared due to strong demand
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  for expensive artificial intelligence hardware,
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  according to some analysts. They believe these
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  chip companies may benefit. even as artificial
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  intelligence costs decrease. In crypto movement,
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  Bitcoin is up 1 % to about $65 ,000. Ethereum
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  is up 2 .5 % to just over $1 ,900. And XRP is
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  up 2 % to $1 .12. 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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  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. Anthropic can finally start
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  cutting checks to a group of authors and book
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  publishers that sued the artificial intelligence
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  lab over copyright infringement. A federal judge
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  gave final approval on Monday of Anthropic's
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  landmark settlement of $1 .5 billion in a class
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  -action copyright lawsuit. Judgerously, Martien
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  Zolgin signed off on the settlement after Judge
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  William Alsop ruled that Anthropic illegally
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  downloaded and stored millions of copyrighted
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  books. While the settlement is believed to be
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  the largest in U .S. copyright law history, many
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  authors still do not view it as a win. Other
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  judges are free to reach their own conclusions
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  in ongoing lawsuits against companies like Google
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  and Meta. And in entertainment news, Prime Video's
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  latest eight -part action series has quietly
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  outperformed its biggest new shows of 2026. While
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  buddy comedies often feature male duos, female
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  pairs are now stepping into the spotlight, with
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  Ride or Die being a standout. This series stars
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  Hannah Waddingham and Oscar winner Octavia Spencer,
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  showcasing them as action stars. With Right or
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  Die scoring an impressive 96 % on Rotten Tomatoes,
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  it has distinguished itself in a crowded streaming
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  landscape. The heart of the show lies in the
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  authentic friendship between the leads, making
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  every mission feel relatable and engaging. It
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  combines action, humor, and heartfelt dynamics.
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  proving memorable beyond typical genres. 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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  British author and philosopher, Haldus Huxley.
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  And he said, Experience is not what happens to
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  a man. It is what a man does with what happens
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  to him. And that's a wrap for this morning. You
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  can check out our Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok
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  for some captivating aerial videos with local
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  news and the weather reports. Have an amazing
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  day, my good friends. We'll see you tomorrow
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  with another episode of Sunny Mornings in Boston.