investigator kimberly suiters in the abc7 help center with a panel of experts ready to answer your questions on world heart day. kimberly? kimberly: the stories are just incredible. starting with the stroke survivor here. 41 years old walking around with a cane. he is giving out wonderful advice. we heard from a bride was stressed and her blood pressure is high. we heard from someone from the hospital bed who wants to know about taking care of the blood pressure after they get out. finally a heart-breaking story about a 32-year-old who just died of stroke. her family wants to provide information about heart help at her funeral. call 703-236-9220 with your questions. now back to you in the studio. alison: a great resource, kim only things that can get clogged. baltimore, it was fat, when wipes and oil. it's causing a massive sewage overflow. this is gross. this is a picture of what the sewer pipe looked like when crews got to it. after a million gallons of sewage flowed out of the pipe last week. crews say it was 85% clogged. but the good news is it has since been cleared. they were having th

kimberly: i'm kimberly suiters. if you have not stepped outside, sticky out there, kind of a return for summer. larry: now sum veronica: the irony there is autumnal equinoxes seven days away. we went from a cold pattern to a warm pattern. that is what we are talking about with our headlines along with a stray shower we could see today and through the weekend, and of course, we are tracking jose which has been fluctuating in intensity. as you're going to see coming up in a couple of minutes 36:00 hou -- in the 6:00. the cone of uncertainty gets closer to our area. the fog patchy, mt. airy seeing under two miles. your temperatures, 61-68 at the bus stop. we'll have highs today it 84 in .d.c. lower 80's everywhere else. that puts us just above average. fog for tomorrow morning. i am back to show you how dense it will be. julie: we are on the capital beltway, the lanes are open. metro is checking in with yellow line delays towards huntington. extra time needed on the yellow line. for those traveling on 66 on manassas, a

who is on your side if you are stranded by a storm in "7 on your side" consumer investigator kimberly suitersfound out it may not be who you think. kimberly: for this artist, a retired wife of 42 years, their picturesque perch overlooking coral bay on st. john's was their dream home. after a category five hurricane named irma hit, it was their paradise lost. >> it started to blow. a lot of noises. boom, boom, boom. goodness. it is going to go through the roof. >> it looked like berlin in 1945. >> the storm fortified home survived. but they lost power. water. and an escape route. >> nothing for days and days and days. >> back in arlington, the family feared the 67-year-old mother and the 71-year-old father were trapped. the daughter stephanie whitaker spotted the video a pilot posted online. she thought she saw a land slide below her parent's home. desperate she turned to facebook and mobilized a network of friends to contact congressman, fema, the department of defense and the red cross. >> the official channels didn't work. >> to seventh day with word, supplies had run out. delirious with ex

kimberly suiters, abc7 news. michelle: mazda is recalling 60,000 cars because a wiring problem can knock out power steering and the passenger air bag. it covers the mazda 6 sedans from 2015 and 2016. if you woan one you should see warning lights. >> police in pennsylvania says a man forced 8-year-old girl to drive his car because he was too drunk to take the wheel. someone saw this. they called 911. >> to have an 8-year-old drive, that is just wrong. >> the man couldn't stand up for a sobriety test. he wanted her to drive him to somebody caught that. ahead tonight at 6:00, the thief targeting parents outside of daycare. plus, shutting down the street to play hockey. a treat from great eight, alex ovechkin. a video you will have to see to believe. a thief swiping a plant. that and more in a few minutes at "abc7 news at 6:00". plant. alison: yeah. okay. first, hard to believe the weather. first day of fall but it feels like summer. michelle: cloudy out there today but the temperatures, as you mention, are toasty. j

i am kimberly suiters. more than 2 million people without power tonight. it could be a long time before they get it back. we have team coverage of hurricane irma. we begin with meteorologist steve rudin tracking the storm. are we talking about less historic proportions? i want to give you the latest update. updates come in every hour from the national hurricane center. 100 10. wind gusts at 130 miles per hour, moving to the north at 14 miles per hour. it made landfall on marco island earlier this afternoon, now drifting towards ft. myers and eventually up toward tampa, where they are expecting significant storm surge over the next four to eight hours. let us show you the tractor that storm as it moves towards the north. it is a category 2, and the winds are going to lessen a bit. by 2:00 in the morning, just aroundmpa, with winds at 85 miles per hour. do not focus so much on the winds, but rather the storm surge, and then this will eventually lift off to the north, being heavier rain to parts of georgia, alabama, tennessee, and kentucky. love going on in f

good morning i'm kimberly suiters in this morning for autria godfrey. and i'm larry smith. let's get right to ryan hughes with the breki toss to eileen metropolitan police are now confirming the reported explosion on the train is a terrorist incident. this is a live look at the scene in london at the parsons green subway station. police also confirming there was a fire onboard a tube train and multiple people are injured. social media users say they heard some kind of blast on the train. london firefighters were seen leading passengers away from the scene as commuters were fleeing in panic. pictures online show a white bucket with wires and flames coming out. we're hearing reports of passengers with burns...andpeople were trampled during the chaos. services are stopped on the impacted subway line right now. we are working to get more we learn more. toss to eileen - warm and humid days ahead - isolated afternoon shower - warm and humid days ahead - isolated afternoon shower chances - fall arrives a week from today - watching jose & the eastern atlantic today: am patchy fog.

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children's national didn't just help us grow up, kimberly: i'm consumer investigator kimberly suitersthe "7 on your side" help center. we are taking your calls about heart health in advance of world heart day. member of the american heart association, i'm getting my blood pressure taken because that is an issue that people call in. how did i do? >> it's lovely. 117/68. kimberly: that is higher for me than normal. >> normal is 120/80. so you are perfect. you and my mom are the only two people on the planet that would say that. this is something you want people to do at home. >> we'd like you to check your blood pressure at home regularly. preferably once a week. we have a free application to use at home. you can find it at www.ccctracker.com. kimberly: shirley is a nurse at medstar washington center. if you have questioning for her or the other nurses call 703-236-9220. back to you. jonathan: you are absolutely perfect. kimberly: you are the third person on the planet who would say that. jonathan: there you go. ten people including four assistant ncaa coaches are charged in a cross cou