Sarah Bloomquist

Louis Vuitton has a new sweatshirt with charming puppets attached. We started to wonder if we could make our own. And I did. On today By the way, the sweatshirt is $8000!!!

Listen to Lisa! I talked yesterday with this Bucks County family about their battle with Bunchems. This is no joke. They spent 20 hours detangling them from their 7-year-old daughter's hair. The company says they will no longer manufacture the product, but they are on store shelves everywhere already. Share. Share. Share to alert other parents who may have these in a toy box somewhere.

Bucks County, Pa. mom shares warning after 150 sticky toys get stuck in child's hair A Bucks County mom has a warning for parents after she spent more than 20 hours freeing a Velcro-like toy from her 7-year-old daughter's hair.

Yassss!!!! Love when we can help a great video go viral and this one has! This Philly girl can sing! And she has the right idea. After a year together in quarantine, we are all saying “Leave Me Alone”. It may be January, but I think little Milan has the song of the year! Take a listen and share. You’ll make someone else’s day for sure!

Philly 4-year-old girl's 'Leave Me Alone' song goes viral A four-year-old Instagram star from Philadelphia may have made up the song of the year -- and it's only January!

Watch my great friend and registered nurse/reporter Ali Gorman as she hosts this really important discussion on staying safe during the holidays.

6abc's Building It Better Together Town Hall - COVID and the Holidays COVID infections are on the rise, so is the desire to celebrate the holidays, How can we stay safe for ourselves and our families? Action News Health Reporter Ali Gorman hosts our Town Hall.

This has been amazing to watch! I cannot imagine getting launched into space. Also, I hate roller coasters so...

Everything to know about SpaceX's 2nd astronaut launch scheduled for Sunday night Three NASA astronauts -- Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker -- will be joined by Soichi Noguchi, an astronaut with Japan's space agency.

After months of downplaying the virus and mocking masks, President Trump and the First Lady have tested positive for Covid-19. This comes after one of his closest advisors, Hope Hicks, became symptomatic. The president will now quarantine at the White House and has canceled at least one campaign event.

This from ABC’s political director Rick Klein:

This marks a moment bigger than politics: The 74-year-old president of the United States has tested positive for a disease that has killed more than 207,000 Americans.

There is no roadmap for what happens next. This will rock markets, test national-security relationships and place the campaign in an uncertain and tense kind of pause.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will be isolating at the White House, with upcoming rallies, fundraisers and official events called off for at least the immediate future. It’s hard to imagine that former Vice President Joe Biden campaigns while his rival isolates, and harder than ever to see another debate taking place.

The news resets just about everything that seemed urgent about this already scary moment in the nation, just 32 days before Election Day and with more than 2 million Americans having already voted.

It also puts what Trump has done and said about COVID-19 in a new light. He has played the threat down; bragged that he helped tame it; promoted dubious treatments; misled the public about its severity; quarreled with his own administration’s experts on how best to control it; and suggested – as recently as in a video he recorded for an event Thursday night – that “the end of the pandemic is in sight.”

Trump has also, repeatedly and undeniably, used COVID-19 as a political weapon. He has threatened and cajoled state and local leaders around reopening schools and businesses, held massive events in defiance of his administration’s guidelines and mocked political opponents even for the personal precautions they have taken.

“I don't wear masks like him,” Trump said about Biden at Tuesday night’s debate. “Every time you see him, he's got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away from me, and he shows up with the biggest mask I've ever seen.”

Trump has banked his reelection on the perception that he tamed COVID-19 and has the economy roaring back. A president who has wanted to look tough during a moment of crisis is himself more vulnerable than ever.

President Donald Trump, first lady test positive for coronavirus President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president tweeted early Friday.

The New York Times would have spent weeks and months with intense legal review before publishing a story of this magnitude. "Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750. He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years -- largely because he reported losing much more money than he made." And this: "Ultimately, Trump has been more successful playing a business mogul than being one in real life." And this: "Within the next four years, more than $300 million in loans -- obligations for which he is personally responsible-- will come due. The tax audit looms." It's a comprehensive and scathing deep dive into the way the president operates his businesses and works to avoid paying taxes. While some might argue he just worked the laws on the books to his advantage and good for him, that may not be the finding of this looming tax audit in which he may actually be on the hook for millions and millions of dollars.

Donald Trump paid $750 in US income taxes in 2016, 2017: NY Times President Donald Trump paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the past 15 years, according to a report Sunday in The New York Times.

Halloween is canceled? I don’t know what to tell my daughter about this. She LOVES Halloween. It’s right around her birthday and her favorite holiday of the year. She talks about what she’s going to be starting November 1st the year before!! She will not be satisfied with a scavenger hunt around the house. I understand it’s necessary because of the pandemic. We all have to do what we can to stay safe. This just makes me so sad for the kids. Next year.....

CDC Halloween guidelines discourage trick-or-treating during COVID-19 pandemic The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has now officially discouraged trick-or-treating in 2020.

Actually, my family had FOUR bear encounters this summer. The video in this story was the second. My daughter was on the back deck of our Poconos rental when she saw this mama bear and then her cub come out of the forest nearby. Before this, on a hike in the Delaware Water Gap, a giant bear crossed right in the path in front of us and sauntered into the woods. Later, we saw a big bear across the Delaware River where we were fishing. And then, the craziest one. One night, my daughter was down at the fire pit.. down a steep hill.. about 50 yards from the house. I was about to walk down with all the ingredients for s'mores. She started yelling, "Mom! Don't come down here! There's a giant bear!" Without thinking I yelled to my 8-year-old to run as fast as she possible could. In her flip flops, she ran the fastest I have ever seen her move up the steep hill. As she reached the back deck, that giant bear walked out of the woods to our right... and slowly made his way to the woods on the left. (It was too dark to get video, but this guy was at least twice the size of the bear in the video in this story.)

So, sometimes, reporters get ideas from real life experiences. I saw something about bear sightings on the rise in Pennsylvania online yesterday. Today, I did more of a deep dive. Turns out, incidents involving black bears are up in the Southeastern part of PA from January to today compared to last year, although not as high as some other recent years.

The bears are more active this time of year. They're consuming calories for the winter ahead and trying to feed their cubs. But PA experts say the supply of things like acorns and berries is down so the bears are increasingly turning toward human sources of food... such as trash or bird feeders.

Pennsylvania had a record bear hunting season last year with almost 4600 bears taken. However, the population remains strong, around 20,000.

They'll find food. We just need to try to give them the space to do it.

Have you had a recent bear encounter? I'd love to see it! Please share.
Sarah.

As number of bear incidents rise in Pa., Sarah Bloomquist shares video her own encounter Our own Action News anchor recorded video of a black bear family just a few yards away.