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Boston Rental Surge Offers Renters More Options, Red Sox Face Rays in Crucial AL East Matchup · 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 Thursday, May 7th. You'll be interested
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  to know, 81 years ago, today in 1945, German
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  forces signed an unconditional surrender, bringing
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  fighting in Europe to an end and allowing millions
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  to begin the slow work of rebuilding and hope.
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  This closing of the continental conflict marked
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  a major milestone in international cooperation
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  and set the stage for new institutions aimed
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  at securing lasting peace. So now you know. And
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  now, it's time for the weather report. This morning,
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  there's a slight chance of rain showers, and
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  it feels like 54 degrees, with 6 mile per hour
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  wind. The sunset will take place at 7 .49 and
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  it will rise again tomorrow at 5 .27. It looks
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  like we're in for some sunny skies after a slight
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  chance of rain showers early, with temperatures
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  reaching a high near 65 and a light northwest
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  breeze around 7 miles per hour. If you're inland,
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  it will hit a high of 64. Tonight, expect partly
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  cloudy skies with a low around 45. and light
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  winds around 7 miles per hour. The near -shore
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  buoy at Cape Cod Bay reads 48 degrees for the
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  water temperature. Looking ahead in the weather.
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  Friday will be sunny with a high near 62 and
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  a west wind of 6 to 12 miles per hour, turning
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  partly cloudy and cool near 46 Friday night.
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  Rain returns Saturday morning with showers likely
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  into Saturday night. Highs near 62 and lows around
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  49. Then Sunday warms to near 72 with a southwest
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  breeze of 5 to 12 miles per hour. Showers become
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  likely again Sunday night into Monday with highs
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  around 64 and a breezy northwest turn late Monday
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  night near 9 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 Sunny
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  Morning sent you. In local news, apartment availability
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  in Boston has surged to the highest level in
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  years, providing renters with more options despite
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  steady rent increases. According to Jamie Thompson,
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  a real estate broker at Thompson Realty, there's
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  more inventory than we've seen in probably 10
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  years, which is unusual for the market. Although
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  renters are taking longer to decide and paying
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  more attention to amenities, Thompson notes that
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  Boston still has one of the nation's tightest
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  rental markets. He remarks, Boston is becoming
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  a better market, but it's still a landlord market,
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  indicating that the balance may shift as more
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  buildings come online. Now on to sports. Major
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  League Baseball's walk rate this season has reached
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  levels hardly seen in the past seven decades.
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  due to a smaller strike zone brought about by
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  the game's new Ball Strike Challenge system.
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  The automated Ball Strike Challenge system, introduced
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  about six weeks ago, has revealed one undeniable
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  truth. The robot umpires have it in for pitchers.
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  As a result, 9 .5 % of all plate appearances
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  across Major League Baseball through Tuesday
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  had resulted in a walk. This marks a sudden and
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  dramatic rise in a statistic that had been remarkably
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  consistent for decades. The walk rate surged
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  to record highs of around 10 % in the late 1940s
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  and early 1950s. In local sports, tonight at
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  Fenway, the Red Sox host the Rays at 7 p .m.
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  in a crucial L -East matchup. Boston is riding
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  a three -game winning streak after shutting out
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  Detroit. 4 -0 yesterday. Sonny Gray was dominant,
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  pitching five innings with just four hits and
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  two walks to pick up the win. The Sox outscored
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  the Tigers 15 -7 across the series and sit at
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  16 -21 on the season. Jake Bennett takes the
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  mound tonight against Tampa Bay's Griffin Jacks,
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  the razor -disciplined hitters who don't chase.
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  So this is exactly the kind of divisional test
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  that matters as Boston tries to climb back into
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  contention. Fenway should be electric. Meanwhile,
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  the Celtics have financial flexibility heading
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  into the offseason. Brad Stevens emphasized they
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  need more rim protection and paint defense after
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  a tough playoff run. The team stays below the
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  luxury tax threshold with access to the $15 million
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  mid -level exception, giving them room to add
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  talent around Tatum and Brown without breaking
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  up the core. Austin can land most non -Max players
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  and still address those glaring weaknesses. Over
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  at the Bruins, the front office made clear at
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  today's press conference they're adding speed
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  and skill to the roster. The Maple Leafs won
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  the draft lottery yesterday, so instead of Toronto's
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  top -five protected 2026 pick, Boston gets their
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  unprotected 2028 first -rounder. It's not ideal,
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  but Don Sweeney still has work to do building
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  a Stanley Cup contender. In top news, three passengers
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  were medically evacuated from the cruise ship
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  at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak
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  on Wednesday. Authorities confirmed that the
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  Andes strain, which can be spread among people,
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  was identified in passengers. The World Health
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  Organization reported three passengers have died
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  after contracting the Andes strain, known to
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  be transmissible between people. As of Wednesday,
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  there were eight cases, three confirmed and five
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  suspected. Despite this perilous situation, passenger
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  and travel blogger Casem Jairo said things have
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  been very calm. A local leader opposed allowing
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  the ship to dock in Spain. In business news.
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  What is a compute tax and why is the idea gaining
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  traction? The extent of artificial intelligence's
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  economic impact is still up for debate, while
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  some are already pondering solutions to worst
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  -case scenarios. The ripple effects of artificial
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  intelligence on the economy are expected to intensify,
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  with job displacement and a shift in gross domestic
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  product from labor to capital. Some are revisiting
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  an old idea. a tax on artificial intelligence
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  processing known as compute. Bill Gates proposed
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  the idea of a robot tax in 2017 before ChatGPT
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  and CloudCode were household names. Anton Koronek,
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  an economics professor, states that the concept
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  has become more mainstream recently. advocates
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  support an artificial intelligence tax to address
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  potential job loss and to slow artificial intelligence's
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  rapid growth rate. Andrew Yang, a former presidential
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  candidate, emphasizes the need to preserve jobs.
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  In crypto movement, Bitcoin is unchanged at just
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  under $81 ,000. Ethereum is down 2 % to about
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  $2 ,000. And XRP is unchanged at $1 .41. Moving
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  on 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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  presents a comprehensive wellness approach, cultivating
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  strength, Reducing tension and elevating mental
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  well -being. Scientific research affirms its
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  benefits. So now you can check out Club Pilates
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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
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  now, back to the show. Let's talk tech. Anthropic
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  is striking a deal with SpaceX to enhance the
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  growth of Claude Code. This partnership aims
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  to expand Anthropic's compute capacity by lifting
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  rate limits on its AI model. On Wednesday, Anthropic
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  announced an agreement to utilize all compute
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  capacity at SpaceX's Colossus One data center
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  in Tennessee. This will bring over 220 ,000 NVIDIA
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  graphics processing units and 300 megawatts of
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  new capacity online within the month. Additionally,
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  Anthropic has expressed interest in collaborating
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  with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of
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  orbital artificial intelligence compute capacity.
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  The agreement turns rival artificial intelligence
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  labs into frenemies. And in entertainment news,
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  Legends is a fast -paced series on Netflix. featuring
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  Steve Coogan as the head of an operation to battle
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  drug smuggling in 1990s England. The series,
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  inspired by real events, may lead viewers to
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  think, this cannot have happened. Based on The
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  Betrayer, how an undercover unit infiltrated
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  the global drug trade, it offers a breakneck
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  adventure about ordinary civil servants going
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  undercover to bust drug dealers. The six -part
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  series, created by Neil Forsyth, starts in 1990
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  Britain, where recession looms and heroin overdoses
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  reveal the dire consequences of the drug trade.
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  Well, alrighty folks, it's time for the quote
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  of the day. And today, our quote comes from the
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  British historian and author, Arnold J. Toynbee.
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  And he said, The immense expansion of human power,
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  which has been the outstanding event of the modern
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  age, is a gift of God. if it is used for the
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  benefit of mankind, but it is a curse if it is
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  used for its destruction. And that's a wrap for
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  this morning. You can check out our Instagram,
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  YouTube, and TikTok for some captivating aerial
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  videos with local news and the weather reports.
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  Have an amazing day, my good friends. We'll see
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  you tomorrow with another episode of Sunny Mornings
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  in Boston.