Our apartment is perfect for both of us. This is her in a video last june talking about the apartment she shared with her roommate at white flint in rockdale. It was in this apartment they found her roommate murdered tuesday morning. The victim 67yearold chan park she was found on the floor of her bedroom of the apartment these two women shared here. Police say she had multistab wounds on her body and police say they found large butcher knife in her back. Police say they found this woman on her bed with bite marks on her arm and found a letter where she wrote that she believed that park was evil and practice edd with craft. These two women lived in an apartment owned by house inging unlimited that provides housing for women in Mental Health recovery. We will hear from them later. A case that could potentially impact all women who want to work while pregnant. At issue is whether a business has to accommodate a pregnancy. At the center of it all a virginia woman. We spoked to peggy young last year that helped pass law that helps protect pregnant women in the state of maryland. I hope this helps other women who decide to have a child and feel more at ease. Youngs battle started eight years ago when she sued ups for discrimination and now take herring case to the highest court. Steve handelsman join us live. Reporter theres already a 36yearold federal law on the books preventing discrimination against women. The question at the Supreme Court today does that law apply to jobs like delivering heavy packages. The u. P. S. Case at the High Court Brought together antiabortion groups and planned parenthood to support pregnant women. When former u. P. S. Driver peggy young was pregnant with her daughter in 2006 u. P. S. Refused to give her light duty even though her doctor said for her not to lift more than 20 pounds. She sued. And asked if pregnant women should be given special status. And two women asked en en of the justices asked why she was not given light duty. Many employees were not given accommodations. Peggy young should be. If we want to start our families we should be able to start our family and continue work at the same time. Reporter her lawyer cited the 1978 discrimination act. But peggy young figures shes won her eight year fight. I want all the women out there to know you have a voice and you need to use it. Reporter the court could rule by late june. U. P. S. Is already changing its policy. Starting next year pregnant u. P. S. Employees will be able to stay at work on light duty. Live at the u. S. Supreme court, im Steve Handelsman news4. Breaking news now in new york city a story that is sure to stir strong reaction a grand jury has decided nonypd officer for the chokehold death of a man earlier this year. This is cell phone video from the incident that happened back in july. Officer was arresting the man for illegally selling cigarettes when garner reportedly said quote, i cant breathe. He later died. New york mayor, bill de blasio is expected to make a statement about this case late afternoon. At least one local organization is already planning to protest in light of the decision. One protest scheduled for tomorrow here in washington outside the department of justice. There has been an outpouring of shock and sympathycebook page after the sudden death of a council candidate. He was planning to run in place of mayor elect Muriel Bowser and died at his mothers d. C. Home with a heart attack. This was taken at the ferguson protest organization and was planning to get married. I knew his mother when she was on a campaign for planned pregnancy. I know how devastated she must be. He was a young proud washingtonian who worked tirelessly to make d. C. A better place. Airbag maker,takata back on capitol hill under mounting pressure from congress. Eric gonzalez joins us at the live desk with the latest on the airbag recall hearing. Reporter takata grilled by lawmakers but the japanese automaker not bulging saying it will not issue a recall. The airbags can shoot shrapnel upon impact affecting 16 million cars and linked to at least five deaths. Today, the Vice President for tack ta said they have not been able to pinpoint the exact cause of the defect and still alleges its only a problem with high humidity. We will take all the actions necessary to advance the goal of safety for the driving public including walk g working to produce additional efforts to support any further recalls that may be announced by automaker. Thats just not good enough for lawmakers. Disappointment is widespread. Tonight at 5, i will tell you the one automaker that spoke up today saying it will issue a nationwide recall on those cars affected. Erika, thanks. A lot of us started the day out with rain but a lot of us are high and dry. Its still cloudy out there. The question is how long will it stay that way . Lets check in with Veronica Johnson in the storm center for your first forecast. Get ready for another change of the wardrobe. Today was nice on the mild side. Would have been much better without the cloud cover rolling out of here. Look at this satellite loop over the last couple of hours. You can see the satellite loop to the west and weather front coming through the area and with it winds will pick up a little bit. Breezy spots in the highest elevations and tempes coming down. Right now, 53 in fredericksburg and 43 in martinsburg. Ill show you how the temperatures will drop for our afternoons coming up the rest of the week and even the weekend. A bit of a change too, to our weekend forecast. I think you will like it. Back in a few. Another Popular School in our region now facing a campus rape crisis. What that school is doing about it now. Coming up a school bus goes up in flames dozens of students inside. Saying farewell the funeral right now, the district is preparing for three days of ceremonies to mark the leaf and death of mayor marion barry. Barry will lie in repose at the Wilson Building for three days beginning tomorrow mornin and the will be a motorcade for a celebration of his life. Saturday the Convention Center will host a public fourhour funeral for the former mayor. Later, saturday barry will be buried in a private service at the historic Congressional Cemetery on capitol hill. Allegations of rape at a frat party, two men are face inging charges. A 16yearold girl says the suspects forced her to perform sex acts then raped her at the party. Baltimore Police Arrested a 20yearold and 19yearold and charged them with rape and sexual assault. Turner says hes innocent. The others attorney could not be reached. Neither the suspect or victims have connections to the university. It ads based on reports of underage drinking and other possible violations of University Policy at the party that night, our Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter has been placed on suspension during our in launch to mars that could be the beginning of a new era sharing his side of the story, the stepfather of slain ferguson teen michael brown, breaks his silence about what he said during the. Ing a teacher trained in the u. S. Stabbed to death in abu dhabi. This Surveillance Video shows the suspect. Investigators think the person wearing that black robe got into an argument with teacher in a mall bathroom and ated her. Police dont know if the killer is a man or woman. The stabbing comes weeks after a jihadist website encouraged attacks against teachers at local american schools. Take a look at this video. This is a blazing school bus in lakeland in polk county florida. 38 kids were on the school bus when it started smoking and the driver and kids got off safely and watched as the whole vehicle went up in flames. Part of the road had to be closed as a second bus showed up to take them to school. New rules will be based to protect from discrimination against Sexual Orientation and gender identity. It applyies to contractors who work with the federal government. 18 states are have these rules but this is the first for the government and the private sector. A mans mission to mars could be closer to reality this week. A test flight of the orion rocket tomorrow is being called the first step in an historic journey. Orion is still on the ground. There is clearly something in the air along floridas spacecoast. At kennedy, its almost like a buzz in the air during a launch week. You can feel it. A feeling thats been missing a long time here. Three years after the end of the Shuttle Program represents the next phase in u. S. Manned space travel. The destina still isnt clear. Sure mars is the ultimate goal. There is also talk of a Lunar Mission and landing on an asteroid. I dont want people to get focused on a destination. This is a journey. Reporter which begins with tomorrows flight test est 1. This outlines the animation at sunrise tomorrow and the ship will make two orbits climbing more than like tos 00 miles above earth. For the first time in many years, this nation will launch a spacecraft to the earth. Thats a big deal. Reporter its to be tomorrow. Jay gray nbc news. Ill go. Hows the weather . Not that bad. A great day and people complaining about the clouds and come on its december and mild. Roads now, take a look if youre going out this evening. The sun setting at 4 46 before long. It will be jacket weather this evening, definitely on the cool side as the weather front makes its way through. It is a dry weather front. Scanning the area this is a live scan right now. No rain showing here. A front moving through, 54 degrees right now under an overcast sky. By the time we get to 7 00 8 00 9 00 winds pick up. It will be cool and breezy. If we make that drop more than 10 degrees by 11 00 p. M. By morning this time, this morning, its going to be cold. Back to the low 30s Gaithersburg Leesburg Culpeper 32 and college park and greenville. Let me show you the future weather, whats going on. Cool conditions here. By 10 00 p. M. Clouds a few left around the area call it partly cloudy by early tomorrow morning. Ample sunshine and a cold start for us. Look at this. 3 00. A lot of clouds across the area. Mostly cloudy tomorrow afternoon. Focus your attention down south, a little weak system that could spark a shower or two. And friday late chance of shower i do mean late. Hagerstown the leading edge of that line it doesnt get here until late. Friday for the most part daylight hours, were dry. Your impact forecast for tomorrow is indeed on the low side with temperatures ranging between 42 and 46 degrees. Theres 48 degrees for friday with that chance of rain late. Only 30 . Its 60 to 70 chance right now on saturday. Saturday right now, is looking like the wet day. The change we have for our weekend right now, is the fact that sunday is now looking dry. We go from 50 saturday to 42 degrees, much cooler on sunday yes indeed. Still a fairly nice weekend. Dry day on sunday. Another chance for showers as we get into the early part of next week. On monday right now, we stay in the 40s. What about the trend . The next 714 day a lot of folks asking me we have christmas and holidays coming up a lot of ceremonies and Christmas Tree lightings. We look at that trend. Well be right back. Military families had a little holiday fun at the white house today. They joined First Lady Michelle Obama as well as bo the first pet for an afternoon of decorating cookies. One little girl asked the first lady if she could decorate too, because her brother was sick and couldnt come. Mrs. Obama told her to decorate as many as she wanted. They got something to decorate the white house for the holidays. There are 26 Christmas Trees there this year. Wait until you see what these repairmen charged for a simple problem that could happen in your home. This man admitted for ebola testing in the u. S. Doctors now believe they know whats wrong with him. We want to know what youre how does he fit down the chimney . Wait, how does he fit up the chimney . How does he keep down all that milk . How much does 7 billion presents weigh . I just dont get it. Why dont you ask him yourself . Santa join us at Busch GardensChristmas Town where christmas shines brightest. Celebrate beneath the glow of 8 million twinkling lights. Get upclose to penguins and experience spectacular shows, all at Busch Gardens. For the best ticket offers visit christmastown. Com today. We have breaking news out of prince georges county. Park Police Investigating a mans body found in a park. Its an active scene in the tangle Wood Community park near woodier road. There are signs of trauma. We have a team on the way to the scene and will bring you more. Virginia College Campus is now up for sale. Virginia in terterintermont college is on the market. Its bristol campus closed for good and the campus can be yours for 15 million bucks after having financial problems and they hope another college will buy the 20 acre property. And virginia singer ryeanryan was eliminated last night. The sterling native made it to the top eight. He now calls his coach a friend and the never forget his hometown. I really wanted to represent the d. C. Area well. I went out there and had fun. I performed to the best of my ability and had a lot of love from here and its nice to be back home and see my family and friends. Ryan will be singing tonight at his alma mater, Dominion High School to thank his supporters and in two weeks hell be back to compete for a wild card spot in the finals. Tonight, were learning the brand new i95 express lanes are on track to open mid to late december. There are plenty of traffic shifts for drivers all the way to stafford county. Adam tuss has a preview. Reporter the rules of the road are about to change big time for any who uses the hov system from thed. C. System and any who uses those lanes hov not, everything changes b if u want to use the express lane you have to have an easy pass. Thats the most importg t this. There are a lot of new rules to learn and new entry and exit this is a big system change. How much will it cost . How far will it go . When will it open . Well answer all those questions for you coming up. Women and depression. What could be behind new numbers and why more younger women are suffering from it. Heating your home is not cheap. Were looking why its not getting any less expensive though gas prices are falling. A very dreary day out there. Tracking that was Michael Browns stepfather telling protesters to burn ferguson down after the grand jury handed down its ruling last week. Tonight, he aess apologizing for that outburst in a statement obtained by nbc news. He said his emotions got the best of him. He also said quote i humbly apologize to all of those who read my pain and anger 0 as a true desire for what i want for my community. It wasnt end quote. Michael browns mother talked about what happened on the today show this morning. It was just emotional. I dont feel he stirred the crowd. The crowd was already stirred. Its been stirring since august 9th. The Ferguson Police department is looking at possible criminal charges. A 12yearold boy shot and killed by a Police Officer was laid to rest today. Family and friends came something say goodbye to him at their church in cleveland, ohio. A rookie officer shot him because he thought he had a real gun. Turns out he actually had an airsoft gun which shoots plastic pellets. Potentially damaging new video has emerged now of the italian cruise ship captain accused of abandoning ship as the concord iaia banked. It shows his boarding a lifeboat with passengers and abandoning ship as the boat began to tilt. He had said he was thrown into the water. The video was shown at his trial today and he faces 20 years in prison if convicted. Today, hundreds came to visit an ohio football player. That athlete was found dead near campus on sunday. He apparently took his own life. His mother said he suffere from concussions. A coroner plans to see if there are signs of brain damage. His teammates plan to honor him during this weekends game. Looks like a boston patient being tested for possible ebowl la doesnt have the deadly virus but has malaria. There will be more tests. The unidentified patient was admitted to the hospital yesterday afternoon and being monitored after spending time in west africa. In news for your Health Depression now affects 1 out of every 12 americans. Its more prevalent in women and the poor. A new cdc study says people at or beneath the poverty line are 2 1 2 times likely to be depressed than those above the poverty level. Women had higher rates of depression than males in every age groups an those 12 and older had bouts and only onethird sought help in the past year. And with us now to take a deeper look into this according to the study, the most depressed people in the country are women between the ages of 40 and 59. These are women who have a lot of juggling to do arent they . Thats right. Its been a known fact for a long time that who suffers. One of the thoughts is it may be due to hormones and certainly postpartum depression shows that out. And showing more and more Young Children that suffer from depression especially those in college. As for the of two College Children its especially the rate of suicide more males than females. Suicide rates have gone up 200 in the last two decades. Poverty shows you will have more than a two time risk if you have pofrverty to also have depression and asthma. If you have severe asthma and other chronic illness, hypertension. Its not known why but maybe because your life is more limited and you cant move around as well or exercise health care. And Seasonal Affective Disorder for the holidays. Its because theres not as much sunlight this time of the year or youre not getting out. You will suffer most if you add stress of the holidays or around their families and for those who own their own businesses and need work to on their tax, the tax preparation. Lack of sunlight is a cause of the disorder. If you can get out even though its cold and get sunlight in its one of the treatments for depression. Isnt it disturbing only 35 of those with severe depression has bothered to get help . Thats really the take home of this report. Only a third of them that have depression got help. This is true in other chronic diseases. Particularly the stakes are high in this whether depression or other Mental Illness that leads to suicide. If you are listening and you have a problem or know someone who has a problem, go get help. No stigma attached. Thats right. Theres a lot of holiday excitement in new yorks famed Rockefeller Center in just a few minutes. Sara is live with the big ex extravaganza plan. Reporter good evening, jim. The final preparations are getting ready for what is the official kickoff for the Holiday Season and we are hearing sound checks of tonights performers including leann rimes and patricia yearwood. Even with all those big names, the tree is really the star of the show. We are told it was on the radar a couple years ago ever since the head gardner of Rockefeller Center spotted it. Back then it still needed a few years to grow. Now, it is ready to take its turn in the spotlight, decorated with 45,000 l. E. D. Energy efficient bulbs and on top the beautiful crowning jewel, Swarovski Christmas star that weighs in at 500 pounds. The tree will stay lit until january 7th, giving millions of people a chance to see it in person. After that it will be recycled and the search for the 2015 tree is under way, a process that never ends. Our favorite time of year. Thanks so much. The cost to drive to work is plummeting. So why isnt the cost of heat in your home going down . Erika gonzalez digging for answers. Tracking another dip in temperatures. Its coming with a weather front. A cool evening and breezy evening. Another drop and change to that weekend forecast. Ill tell how long this time well stay with our temperatures. Youve probably noticed gas prices at stairtheir lowest. If youre expecting it to go lower for heating your home this doesnt make sense. We got a letter saying i noticed the difference at the pump so why are we not seeing the drop for discount in home heating oil. Were told Residential Home heating prices are actually down across the boar