kimberly suiters, kimberly: they are happy now. a lot of parents like to sell their home at this time. if you have a question about selling or buying one in the d.c. market, 703-236-9220. what are the my lellians interested in -- millennials interested in? >> they want to be in the middle of the action. >> they are smart and research everything. they are on google at the time. call 703-236-9220. we are also on facebook live if you want to hear more advice. leon: we'll check back with you in a bit. >> a school surprise you have to see. member of the air force deploy and wait for months surprises her daughters at school. the emotional reunion ahead. alison: plus the high-tech scams bring up a surprising find in the loch ness. what is it? find out in a few minutes. leon: pork barrel spending. some of the expensive earmarks lawmakers are slipping in the legislation. some of the big offenders coming up next at "abc7 news at 5:00". he was flicking matches on me... for my life. my ex-husband's intentions were to murder me. glenn: i made s

kimberly suiters? kimberly: 71.5 miles per gallon. sound too good to be true? it is. today the president of mitsubishi admitting to the falsification. he said he claims he knew nothing about this wrongdoing. there is a big price to pay when this happens and there is faulty fuel economy testing. in the last hour as you mentioned "7 on your side" learned volkswagen will spend $1 billion to compensate the owners of the cars that cheat on emission tests. this involved half a million so-called mini cars in japan. the company is looking into that to restore trust. on the north american website for mitsubishi, in the latest news there is no mention of the campal. they mention that mitsubishi saw the best sales in march. we reached out to the mitsubishi headquarters in north america to ask if it will have an impact on sales. saying we are not aware of the testing irregularity but it will be investigated. reporting in the newsroom, kimberly suiters, abc7 news. back to you in the leon: tonight -- >> i love my wife. >> are you injured man? leon: a 911 call flips the script on a

we will have more in a few minutes with kimberly suiters.onathan: developing in montgomery county. knife fight inside a grocery store that is causing a chaotic scene today. 11:00 th customers heard shouting inside the safeway at the germantown center complex. they found blood on the grocery store floor but no victims. officers closed three aisles and the produce department for a few hours based on the surveillance video. michelle: ung touched since before hurricane katrina. it was jazz land. theme park in new orleans that they are looking to start new. what does the future hold for the land that looks like straight out of a horror movie? that is coming up. jonathan: freedom at last. this is inky. escaped the new zealand aquarium. how did he do it? where is he now? we look delores kelley: although we were all one maryland, our schools weren't treated the same way. narrator: with neighborhoods getting r schools, something had to be done for our children. kelley: it didn't matter where chris was from. he knew that we couldn't leave a child havi

you have until monday to get everything to the i.r.s. "7 on your side" consumer investigator kimberly suiters at seven deductions you may have overlooked. kimberly: some of these will blow your mind. because we are "7 on your side" we are giving you serve of the top overlooked deductions to make you wonder can i really deduct that? if you have a victim in accident of theft or embezzlement of the businesses the if you are traveling and you need cleaning services that is a write-off. if you are looking for new job, any fees for the resume prep or the job placement agencies is deductible. you can conduct contact lenses, glasses, hearing devices and contraceptives if bought with a prescription. the worthless p.c. in your living room. that depreciated value actually counts. if you have a safe deposit box to hold investments those fees are deductible. this got me. gambling losses are tax deductible. leon: wait a second. alison: you need to adjust your tax return? leon: so if you are a professional gambler they are deductible? kimberly: i think if your losses are greater than your winnings. check wi

kimberly suiters is here to help you expose of the expire medications safely. kimberly: when we say "safely" we will show you what we mean. this is national drug giveback day. since the d.e.a. started hosting it six years ago 5.5 million pounds of unwanted medications were surrendered for safe disposal. we are talking about save from getting in the wrong hands. like kids, addicts or dealers. or in the wrong places like rivers, lakes and your drinking water. here is how you do it at home. the f.d.a. recommends mixing the pills with an undesirable substance like coffee grounds, dirt, or gross, i know. i picked coffee grounds. seal it in a plastic bag like this. then you can safely throw it out. if you have a handy ripoff strip for bottles, rip it up and rip you have the private information. if you don't have that, you know how tough it is to scratch it off. take a sharpie, scratch out your name and the prescription number. do it well before you turn it in. if you don't want to deal with that, head to wjla.com. we have a link for you. type in your discoed and safe

drivers caught in the volkswagen emission investigation. "7 on your side" consumer investigator kimberly suiters with details. kim? kimberly: michelle, to sell or the fix? that is the question for consumers tonight. volkswagen admitting the diesel cars were programmed to cheat u.s. emissions tests. it is making the offer to car owners. the company says you can either sell the cars back to the company or have them fixed. if you sell it will likely be the value of the car before the scandal erupted. we are talking about diesels, jetta, gulf, beatles, audi. if you own one you will get substantial compensation from the company. we don't know how much. the lawyers are working out the billions in fines and the compensation as we speak. >> we are working really hard to get this resolved to put it behind the company. that's what we are focused on now. >> i think volkswagen will have a tough road. i think volkswagen is making an effort to try to repair the relationships. kimberly: those are attorneys from both sides. the first for volkswagen, the second for the plaintiffs. tonight at 5:00, we are going t

kimberly suiters joins us now with a look at the choices the drivers are forced to make. kimberly?berly: what do you do? do you let v.w. buy back the diesel or go for the fix? this is just the begivenning, by the way. v.w. facing $20 billion in environmental fine from the u.s.. the company hasn't worked out how much it will compensate almost half a million v.w. diesel drivers in the u.s. we are talking jetta, beatles, passat, audie. we ask the maryland v.w. drivers what they plan to do. >> i think they will do what they is a. they will try to make it right. with the people that purchase the diesel cars. kimberly: it sounds like you still like and trust the company. we would by another volkswagen. >> the environmental impact is my big concern. it doesn't affect the gas mileage i might go that route. if they can't make guarantees i'll have them buy the car back. kimberly: she is talking about the guarantee about the minimal environmental impact which is why she bought the car in the first place. another driver told us his v.w. gets 50 miles per hour. he knows that for sure so they ma

who is eligible to inherit could get dicey here. "7 on your side" consumer investigator kimberly suiters has answers and this is something we could all learn from. kimberly: we are talking about how many of you have written the will, have you invested the money? a lot of us want to skip the expense of staying for estate planning. you might think you have enough stuff to warrant a will. but be you pennies or a fortune like prince, planning now could spare heartache or worse after you are gone. without a will we don't know where the man who made the millions wants them to go. >> he doesn't get any say over where his assets go. and i think that is a kimberly: daniel, an attorney warrants sudden wealth can be harmful. >> everyone is like oh, please, you know, harm me with that. but so many people who inherit money and win lotteries, professional athletes blow it all and end up test tute, homeless -- destitute, homeless, bankrupt, in worse position than before they got the money. kimberly: proper estate planning can guard against that. to say where your money should go, to protect your childr

we found out that kimberly suiters is anchoring today. d.c. united still winless on the season. they have a chance for a win on saturday. but for a goalkeeper there is a victory. a personal victory. tally hall was ready at a moment's notice. >> there is an opportunity. robert: whatever it took for the goalkeeper to save his career. >> if you look over my career, i have done well. robert: a seven-year mls veteran who was out of the league when the season began. >> you have to weather the storm. living on my parents for a while. robert: hall was home in washington state when he got the news. a try-out with united. which needed goalkeeping depth due to injury. so the father of three came to d.c. his wife and kids staying home so as not to disrupt school. >> go home and getting tackledded and that makes life better. that is a sacrifice my family and i are willing to take to get me, get me back on the week. >> hi role is to help team win however i can. playing, then it's playing. if it's not, it's not. robert: back in league he loves hoping to help d.c. united get back on top. >> it'

our consumer investigator kimberly suiters is here with information we all need to know. is there right. "7 on your side" knocked on the doors of the homes next to simon elementary school where you just saw sam ford. people there tell us they have been on edge about lead in the water for a while now. two families we spoke to today said they have been drinking bottled water as a precaution. a family let "7 on your side" test their >> "7 on your side" started at home depot where we picked up three home testing kicks for $30 each. the package says know what is in your water. we figure people living in the congress heights neighborhood would want to know about lead. the folks at this 84-year-old home on fifth street southeast were kind enough to let us test theirs. we took out a tiny vile. eye dropper and a paper strip. we collected two drops of straight tap water. ten minutes later we had the results. if the light blue strip on the right turned darker than the one on the left, that indicates lead in the water. like a pregnancy test. this one was negative. the c.e.o. of a com

our consumer investigator kimberly suiters will check in at "abc7 news at 5:00" to walk you through that. look outside and the cloudy, damp trend. it does seem to continue. do we have more showers in store for the ride home? our chief meteorologist doug hill is keeping an eye on it for us. messy lens. doug: dirty lens. you wouldn't see much farther because it's cloudy and damp. more rain coming in the area now. doppler radar shows the showers in the metro, heavier showers in southwest. one northeast of charlottesville knocking out lightning with it too. a quick closeup shows locally. north side of town over the city. inside the beltway at the moment for heavier rain. more patches of rain come with us through the evening hours. we call for temperatures to hold in 50's. overcast spotty showers. quick look a shows more period of rain throughout the day. highs in the 50's. we will check the weekend in detail in a few minutes. michelle: thank you. we have new information on a story that broke at 4:00 yesterday. a double stabbing, one woman killed and we have learned she was pregnant. the baby