this happened in the southbound lanes near laurel. it did hit a small car, but no one was hurt. traffic was backed up for more than an hour so debris could be cleared. >> back inside the beltway, downed trees creating problems for homeowners in montgomery county. this is what it looks like in bethesda. new for us, pat collins is live on bradley boulevard with more. pat? >> reporter: doreen, this is not the kind of high wire act you want to see. especially if it's in your front yard. take a look at this scene on bradley boulevard. this large limb draped over these large wires. goose bumps. we are waiting for pepco to come in and remove the limb and set the wires free. come to think of it, this was a bad day for trees all around. a tree down here. a tree down over there. it seemed like every other turn, there was something down somewhere. at mcarthur boulevard in glen echo, barely one car could get by. at elgin lane, the street completely blocked by fallen limbs. then, on river road, near wilson lane right before rush hour, tree limbs down. wires down and for awhile, a portion of the road was closed down. sometimes it just takes a fallen limb to bring things to a stop. this was the scene on bradley boulevard when a huge limb from a very old tree came toppling over in the high winds. debris all over the place. the road closed for some time as county workers moved in to make a safe pass. he has an office nearby. he had to reschedule some of his appointments. >> the trees are getting bigger around here and, you know, they are getting more prone to falling. so, the weather seems to be getting worst. >> reporter: i think the doctor is right. old trees, high winds make for huge pick ups. live in montgomery county, pat collins, news 4. to stay ahead of changes in our weather, you can download the storm team 4 weather app. it's free in the app store or google play. now to breaking news right now. police are investigating a pedestrian accident and there are a couple casualty that is happened at the enclave apartments near columbia pike. a pick-up truck hit two people. we don't know if the truck driver is at fault or if the victim stepped into traffic. they were rushed to the hospital. their injuries appear to be minor. this is happening in silver spring. a swim coach accused of abusing a young swimmer plans to plead guilty. he was arrested in april. montgomery county police say he abused a girl that he coached from 1984 to 1989. she was 7 years old when the abuse started. the woman is now in her 30s. according to court documents, he will enter that plea later this month. in exchange, a ten-year prison sentence. he was the founder and owner of the maryland swim club in laurel. we are tracking ominous developments in the middle east right now. our answer is fire. that is the warning from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu after militants rejected a cease-fire proposal and continues to launch rockets at israel. he authorized unleashing the full force against militants in gaza. israel recorded the first death in this conflict. a man delivering food was struck from a shell from gaza. 200 palestinians have been killed and thousands of people forced out of their homes. a volunteer firefighter in our area is on the ground in israel putting his life in danger to help. he's part of an effort to support first responders. zachary kiesch talked to him about his mission today after his plane lands. >> kind of a ghost town. they are hunkered down. >> reporter: we could hear the sirens over the phone like we have seen and heard on tv. sunday, robert packed his bags and left his rockville home and headed to israel to help. >> we were put into one of the most active fire stations there in the front lines of the missile attacks. >> reporter: he's been a first responder since he was 16 years old. this isn't a business trip, it's a volunteer effort to help the people in a war torn area. >> i look for any opportunity to make friends. >> reporter: political tensions have been going for the last 100 years. a resolution may not come soon. in the meantime, he's willing to serve and protect anybody regardless of their religious affiliation. >> here, it doesn't matter the culture. help them save, you know, anybody that is in distress. >> reporter: he is just inside the southern border of israel and the gaza strip, leading a group of 13 firefighters from the u.s. pictures like this one of a bombed out gas station reflect the challenges. >> we tried to send help. so, then we are just shoulder to shoulder with them. >> reporter: zachary kiesch, news 4. protesters on both sides try to make their voices heard in the latest immigration debate. what to do with thousands of children who made a dangerous trek to the u.s. to escape violence in their own country. they come to seek safe haven, but they are greeted by armed guards and the possibility they will be sent back home. we have team coverage tonight. we begin with steve handelsman and dealing with the border crisis. >> reporter: house republicans will demand more national guard troops sent to the u.s./mexican border to block the kids from coming in. that could be another conflict with president obama. and the democrats, we do not believe per se the border itself is the problem. the problem is people wanting to cross it. the big issue, the biggest issue remains immigration hearings. should they be speeded up or eliminated? the conflict came to arizona. >> protesting the invasion of the united states by people from foreign countries. >> reporter: they have been told a bus is coming bringing central american kids to detention. many are frustrated that migrants who came illegally aren't going straight home. >> across the border in our country. our president -- >> reporter: the obama plan is to send the kids back. the efforts began with this plane landing yesterday in honduras. the first of many flights planned. >> we are sending family units back to central america. the message is, we will send you back. >> reporter: the obama message is okay nearly $4 billion to speed up the process. republican -- a notice to appear. >> sometimes called a notice to disappear. it's been interpreted to be a police in central america or permission to stay in the united states. >> reporter: some democrats say most of the kids should stay. their home countries are dangerous. >> in many cases, those children will likely qualify to be able to stay in this country under request for asylum. >> reporter: so, congress is stuck over faster hearing versus fewer hearings. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. they are not the only ones dealing with this. there's a demand for answers in virginia. some of the children may have been transferred to a facility in bristow. we have more on how local residents are reacting. >> i think maybe we should encourage the federal government to send them back. >> reporter: the debate over what to do with unaccompanied immigrant children stretches from the border to northern virginia. the board of supervisors chairman, corey stewart and board members are trying to figure out where the children are and what they can do about it. >> they should be sent back home. the reason they should be sent home is to send a message that if you make that journey to the united states, you are just going to be sent back home. don't try it. >> reporter: stewart says a home for troubled teens in bristow called youth for tomorrow is housing the children. video shows a sprawling 200-acre site. youth for tomorrow didn't respond. they say they don't identify shelters for unaco komccompanie minors. srk they should be processed in a kind and humane way and sent back. >> residents are split. >> they need to take care of the border, but they are not taking care of the border. it's a game. once you in, you in. our flash survey question of the day, what should the u.s. do about children crossing the border alone. right now, one in four of you believe they should be deported. meanwhile, those opposed to the undocumented immigrants brought to maryland are expressing their views with graffiti. someone spray painted a message on a former military building proposed for children to live. state police are investigating this as a hate crime. we invite you to stay with nbc "nightly news" for more on this immigration story tonight at 7:00. rush hour horror stories. chilling accounts from survivors as we learn about what happened moments before the deadly subway derailment. >> i'm julie carey. prosecutors backed off plans to use nude photos of a 17-year-old boy targeted in a sexting case. a look at their change of heart and why his aunt says his battle is far from over. >> president obama is using his own experience as the father of a teenage driver to call for changes in congress. classroom controversy. we are getting answers from the superintendent amid talks about changi a developing story out of moscow. tragedy after a subway train crashes inside a tunnel, trapping hundreds of people. it took 12 hours for rescue crews to reach all the injured. tonight, bodies remain trapped in the mangled mess there. 21 people were killed, nearly 150 more were injured. what caused the train to run off the track remains a mystery. nbc news, kier simmons has the develop millions. >> reporter: a race to rescue the injured. i was in the car. suddenly, there was a shock and i fell down. others bloody, emerging in shock from one of the worst subway accidents in history. the lights went off, another man says. smoke and they were blocked in. more than 100 injured. emergency cases air lifted to the hospital. 200 passengers were evacuated from the stricken train and many treated on the scene grateful to have escaped from a frightening accident on the ground. some of the tunnels are a long way down. that makes the rescue effort more difficult. right now, we know many people have been killed. many injured. back to you. an oversized truck brings a bridge crashing into a river. it is not the truck driver being blamed. a new report pins it on the driver who was escorting that big rig. investigators say she was talking on the phone, didn't warn the driver about the height restrictions on the skagette river. it caused a van and two cars to plunge into the water. the report says the bridge was deteriorating and didn't have enough warning signs. the whole thing could have been prevented if the truck driver moved over one lane to the left. president obama got behind the wheel today, kind of. the president took a virtual drive at a highway research center. it's part of getting approval of the highway trust fund. he has a new reason to push for safer roads. >> as a father of a daughter who just turned 16 -- >> ooh! >> any technology that makes driving safer is important to me and technology that makes it smarter is good for the economy. >> within the last hour, the house passed a bill to provide temporary funding for road projects. the senate is considering a similar measure. president obama says it suspect enough. the fact that veronica is able to leave the storm center -- as soon as you walked in, i said it must be getting better. >> you were in the storm center the whole time. >> they are really keeping a close eye on the radar. we are not completely out of the woods. an hour and a half to two hours before we had warnings issued to the area. we could get one or two warnings issued for the risk of damaging winds and hail we have seen today. take a look litzer prize winner no longer in handcuffs. jim handly is at the live desk. >> he is free, again. the u.s. border patrol released him today hours after he was handcuffed and detained at an airport in texas after trying to fly to california. he's a pulitzer prize winning journalist. he's become an activist for change in the nation's immigration system. we are working to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the release and we'll bring it to you as soon as it comes in. back to you for now. >> thank you, jim. an oklahoma mother's trust betrayed after her little girl contracted herpes from a day care. her 1-year-old daughter developed painful blisters and bumps around her mouth. after doctors told her what it was, the mother called the day care who all but confirmed where it came from. >> i told them what she has. they said the worker has fairfa annandale and into the d.c. area by 7:35. oxon hill all met and there could be very high winds with this line that comes through as well. i have seen extended and build areas that could be impacted with, i think, the greatest wind around clifton, fairfax, burke within the next couple minutes. all this headed east. the temperatures tomorrow morning, way cool. thursday in the 50s, low 50s. more detailed look at this and what's next for us in a couple minutes. >> stay ahead to changes in the way cool temperatures, download the storm team 4 weather app. it's free. a manassas teenager accused in a sexting case won a victory tonight in a criminal case that won national attention. >> they will not serve the search warrant that would have allowed them to take explicit some people got more excitement than they bargains for on a ride in orlando today. they had to be rescued after th. there's no sugar coating it. this is a permanent change. think of the situation like this. metro's staring at one traffic jam. in order to prevent the jam, it's going to keep blue line trains in the garage. it has to do with how many trains you can fit through the rosalynn tunnel during the morning rush. with the silver line coming on board, there's not room. will you adjust your schedule? >> probably. >> reporter: let's try to explain it for you using the metro map. at rosalynn, the blue, silver and orange line meet at the rosalynn tunnel. there's only so many trains you can get through there at rush hour to go into downtown d.c. on monday, some blue line trains go away so the 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