lying about insurance premiums. "7 on your side" consumer investigator kimberly suiters at the "live desk" nowwi kimberly: put this in the context of what we just witnessed, how outrageous the crime is. they are saying that the flood insurance payment are overdue and you must submit a payment over the phone. f.t.c. says they are lying arp you shouldn't pay up -- and you shouldn't pay up on the spot. what about getting flood insurance in the first place? most of us assume it will never happen to us. >> you would say that the washingtonians are woefully underinsured when it comes to flood insurance. >> the nation is woefully under insured. >> you might expect tom santos with the american insurance mean to say that -- company to say that but he says you will get paid more and faster with insurance as opposed to relying on federal disaster. >> the risk is this area. >> he points to recent examples. ellicott city's main street last year. georgetown's water front in 2011. oldtown alexandria anytime we have heavy rainfall. historically wash has been under water before. opinion avenue in 188

i'm kimberly suiters. this happened at a church in bethesda. the good news, we learned the 86-year-olds are expected to be ok. q mccray reports. hood, a smashed windshield, and a cane on the ground. this was the scene at the unitarian universalist congregation on river road. >> the fact that something happened in our parking lot is upsetting. they always say that accidents happen. q: investigators say at about 4 p.m., a white sedan slammed into the elderly couple walking to their car. the man and woman were rushed to the hospital. an unfortunate incident on an already somber day. >> our minister emeritus' funeral was today. it was a celebration of life for him. q: according to the church website, reverend dr. bill murray passed away july 6. he served the church for 16 years. >> it sad. q: the service had just finished when the accident happened. the driver of the sedan stayed on the scene and fully cooperated with the police. q mccray, abc 7 news. in, the: this just pentagon has called off the search for three u.s. marines missing off the au os

i'm kimberly suiters. we begin with a severe thunderstorm warning. let's get right over to stormwatch 7 meteorologist josh knight. josh: the lightning often the distance, a great shot at the capital wheel. all of the lightning starting to come together. we have been watching these work across the area, predominantly just the light showers, but this will start to intensify in the southeastern part of prince george's county, calvert county, as well as southern anne arundel county and charles. most of the lightning from the capital shot, just about to move towards dunkirk. abouthe size of diameter, and damaging wind gusts not out of the question. especially as the storm moved to the east, dunkirk, anywhere in yellow, take cover. the good news is these are moving quickly and just about all of us trying out soon. 11:30, this pushes out and most of the overnight will be drive. that sets up for a really nice sunday. just another 30, 45 minutes for the storm. 73 tomorrow morning. humid and, but less even sunnier than today. the eclipse, there could be a few

i'm kimberly suiters. i'm joining josh knight in the weather center. when is the heavy rain expected? josh: about midmorning. just an early heads-up, not a guarantee that we will so veer weather -- see severe weather, but the best chances tomorrow. the wave of low pressure working its way across the country, heading to us. the warm front through first, bringing rain, and then the low pressure rides along with it. the two together give us a chance of heavy rain and stronger thunderstorms. valley, pushing towards d.c. futurecast, overnight, more light showers filling in. tomorrow morning, just before 6 a.m. and before the morning rush, most of the rate is late. does not look to heavy until we get later into the morning. lunch hour, right into the afternoon and evening, we hang onto these on and off showers and thunderstorms. the heaviest rain will really be focused around the i-95 corridor in southern maryland. we have a flash flood watch for these areas that goes into effect tomorrow afternoon come into the evening. a lot of places will see an inch sf r

kimberly: i'm kimberly suiters. turned violent in charlottesville, va, one person killed, 19 others hurt as a car rammed into people. governor terry mcauliffe and other officials are about to hold a news conference. following has been this news from the live desk. some very intense video and scenes from charlottesville. amy: absolutely, and at this hour, the person who rammed their car into the crowd is in custody. a warning tonight because the video you are about to see is so graphic. the quiet college town of charlottesville, virginia, turned into chaos. upset over the decision to remove a statue of confederate general robert e. park, whendowntown suddenly a car came barreling down the street, ramming into the protesters, running them over. others forced to jump out of the way. you could see people laid out on the streets, paramedics working on them, people wrapping up their legs. amy: the charlottesville mayor said he was heartbroken a life has been lost. i urge all people of goodwill, go home. virginia governor

kimberly suiters is in the help center to show us how. kimberly: we partnered with the american red cross. i'm joined by jeff with the red cross. phones are ringing off the hook. people are giving generously. give the viewers at home about the scope and the scale of this compared to katrina. so many of us being that as the greatest flooding disaster. >> i have to tell you everything happens in bigger in texas. what we are seeing now is the scale of the flooding covers the size, the area of lake michigan. places than not it seems. we are handling the people evacuating. we have the shelters open across the state to handle people in all corner of the state. we had preparedness. we got people in there early. >> last week we were moving in the supplies to open up the shelters to prepare for this. i have to tell you that the scale is huge. we need every help we can get. >> not just for days and weeks. >> possibly months and years. you heard the fema's administrator talking about it could be a year's recovery effort. kimberly: if you call the num

i'm kimberly sk, suiters, back to you. alison: tonight the secret ervice is denying reports that president trump is overstretching the protection budget. he shortfall was reportedly blamed on president trump's regular weekend trips to places mar-a-lago. the secret service director said is agency has the funding it needs to meet all requirements and to cover overtime pay of the year.nd jonathan revamping his legal team and dding an attorney who is known for representing another celebrity. cosby has hired michael jackson's former lawyer. going to lead his defense during his november retrial on sexual assault charges. an awaital in michael jackson's 2004 trial. asby's first trial end indeed hung trial. alison: no matter where you were in the u.s. today, it up ed everyone was looking from sidewalks, parks, roof coast he first coast to solar eclipse in 99 years in this country was an event to behold. not a total eclipse here in our area, that 81% coverage of all ages. >> oh, my god! [screaming] wonderful. >> it looks orange. >>