find out why tonight when 7 on your side troubleshooter horace holmes brings us "who is watching yourhild?" that report on abc 7 news at 11:00. coming up on abc 7 news at noon, just days away from the 89th annual academy awards. we bring you the reasons why "la la --my: we are counting down now just three days to the oscars this year's heaviest contender -- "la la land." land"of cour "la la could take the big prize at the oscars the sunday, having tied the record for most him in nations with 14. it is no coincidence that the sweetheart of the 2017 awards season looks and sounds a lot like a flashback. two academy award nominated films of the 1940's, 1950's, and 1960's. the planetarium waltz coming from the scene in "broadway melody," this scene from "sweet charity," and hit ryan gosling's costume of course from "singin' in the rain." >> ryan was of course inspired by it. we cannot not geive a little wink to it. jummy: kidd o'shea will be live. and start watching him on "good morning can watch the oscars here on abc 7. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which i

we wanted to find out, so tonight horace holmes reveals the finding around an 11 month prices. retail when is a product really on sale. >> this suit was on sale for 60% off and i guarantee you that if i go there now it will be about the same price. autria: should we believe the ads promising the discounts? find out tonight in his story -- is it really on sale. larry: saturday night live is at it again. reprisingcarthy now, "good morning washington" has four tickets for you for the hottest show in town. the globetrotters, playing at the verizon center. call a number seven? you are going. -- caller number seven? you are going. if you don't win today, check in again tomorrow for another shot. vj? morattico: it is going to be windy -- one thing's for sure, this winter is going -- has been acting a lot like early spring, where you get those big windy days. taking a look at the capital, the sun is coming up here. still windy from now to noon, 1:00, the wind will be in this range, 40 to 50 miles per hour. the occasional wind gust coming through, good enough to notice the debris going

horace holmes has recall. horace: it's 700,000 strollers. they are made by the britax company. in particular, the b-agile and bob motion strollers. these are strollers that allow a car seat to attach to them so you can take the seat in and pull it out also. the problem is with what d'brickashaw calls the click & go -- what britax calls the click & go receiver mount. portion where the car seat snaps or clicks onto to stroller. the consumer product safety commission ordered the recall because the manufacturers received numerous reports of those car seats suddenly disconnected and then falling to the ground. horst horst in 26 cases the children in the seats received minor injuries after the seat has fallen out. the stroller sets have been sold at several big stores like babies r us, bye-bye, baby, and target between may 2011 and february of this year the car seat in your car but stop using it attached to the stroller immediately and contact the company. they will give you a repair it can. back to you. alison: -- give you a repair kit. back to you. alison: popular stroller. thank y

alison: our troubleshooter horace holmes found surprising facts when they put diamonds to the test. down to the four c's. color, clarity, cut, carat or the weight of the stone. >> this is a brilliant cut. >> this is mark, certified gemologist. he says it's difficult for someone with an untrained eye like you or me to look at a diamond and tell what it is worth. it's difficult depending on the stone for the professionals. >> to grade the stone and come one somewhat different results. >> to prove a point, "7 on your side" went under cover to several jewelry stores and pawnshops to see how they would rate a diamond that belongs to a staffer. >> the retail is $3,000. horace: that i the independent jewelry stores and then we went to a pawnshop that offered us $to 0. then to a major retailer in a local mall. the values range from $200 to $4,500. how do you know what you are really buying? ours says -- >> it's probably dealing with the person you trust and feel comfortable with. >> that is why you should be color where you buy the diamond. be careful of buying off the internet. with the ex

horace holmes set out to find out when a sale is really a sale. he is here to explain. race: we partnered with an advocacy group that track prices for a career. they watch prices for all kind of items and during the times when they were sales and when they weren't. you will be surprised at what we found. >> presidents day, you know, memorial day sale, an christmas sales. the things are predominantly meant to get you to spent money at the store. really to not shop around. horace: "7 on your side" set out to do its own shopping. in our story tonight we learned a thing or two about how to save money. we will pass all that information to you. don't miss it. is it really on sale tonight? that's at 11:00. alison: all right. thank you very much. we als have a "7 on your side" consumer alert. verizon restarted the unlimited data plan today. they scrapped it six years ago but some of the main competitors reintroduced unlimited data plans since then. now for $80 a month, verizon kerts can gigabyte of mobile hot spot usage plus calling to mexico and canada. but heavy data use:00s m

michelle: "7 on your side" troubleshooter horace holmes brings us who is watching your child.ight on abc7 news at 11:00. jonathan: coming up next at "abc7 news at 4:00" -- power vampires. forget the cable bil your power payments. you might rethink recording your favorite shows. that's next. ♪ john: electric bills are going up and up these days thanks to the rate hike and the high-tech appliances and the tvs in our home. but one could be one of the biggest power hogs. the cable d.v.r. they call them power vampires. things that suck power 24 hours a day. >> the coffee maker not making coffee is sucking down energy. >> that is $1.25 a month even if you don't make any coffee. but the biggest vampire according to a new report in the "l.a. times" is your cable d.v.r. it is always on with a winning hard drive running all night using 35 watts of power. the "l.a. times" says it could cost $8 a month. now use 6 watts and that is another dollar. from the doesn't that stink file? comparison of the power drain. computer in sleep mode is 7 watts. c.f.l. bulb outside the door at night is 13