kristin saloomey, al jazeera, new york. >> october is domestic violence awareness month.ost people think of abuse, physical violence comes to mind. emotional violence, however, is just as devastating. there is help for victims who are is able to seek it out. >> fear and shame no longer consume them. but they are still not comfortable showing their faces on camera. they are victims of domestic abuse who say their husbands slowly chipped away at their self esteem until it was almost gone. but thenlt gained the courage to leave and now they are telling their stories. >> this is pretty. >> gabriella came to the united states from germany as a student. show describes her younger self as a fearless, focus woman. she fell in love with an ivory-league educated man. they got married but their relationship took a dangerous turn. >> take me back to when you knew something is wrong here. >> several things. he may give me a real lesson how to squeeze out the toothpaste out of the tube. at one point, i had to run back to the bathroom, close the door because he was yelling and screaming

kristin saloomey, al jazeera, new york. >> the hatchet attack on a group of new york city police officers has tonight been deemed a terror attack by new york law enforcement. officer kenneth healy remains in critical condition after a hatchet attack. dailzale thompson was a recent convert to islam. >>> israeli army said the youth was about to throw a molotov cocktail. >>> a 12-year-old israeli girl is breaking tradition at the western wall in jerusalem one of the holiest sites in judaism. the women are not allowed to pray at the wall but she will for her bat myths mitzvah. mitzvah. >> her simple act of singing might overturn decades of tradition. >> are you proud of your daughter? >> i'm trying not to get overexcited yo but i think thiss the most exciting moment of my life. >> sasha is practicing for a bat mitzvah. hers is advertised on posters, that this is the first time a girl is singing at a jewish holy site. boys have done that for years, they carry the torah through the western wall plaza. their proud fathers hold up judaism's most orthodox text. they've ripped sasha's posters down.

kristin saloomey has that story. >> perhaps no one in the u.s.s more concerned about the spread of ebola than these immigrants from west africa. they have seen the disease take a toll on family members there while being treated with suspicion here. >> someone, you are from africa? then people move away from you because that stigma. >> for the community here, there is a fear of the stigma. so people, if they are sick, we are worried they may not go to the hospital. >> news that a new york doctor now has the disease is only add to go their concerns. craig spencer came home from treating ebola patients in guinea over a week ago. >> there is no cause for alarm. new yorkers need to understand the situation is being handled and handled well. there is no cause for every day new yorkers to be alarmed. >> the mayor says that the first sign of fever, dr. spencer notified had you bepublic healts and was quarantined here at the city hospital designated deal with the virus. >> even as officials try to calm new york city residents, telling them the chances of

kristin saloomey, al jazeera, new york. >> fredrico castiluchi, an actor, artist and an art collector. he is known for his role as furio on the sopranos but also known for making a big discovery in the art world. he found a 17th century guert i & o tucked away for decades in an auction house in germany. i asked him what it was like to see that painting for the first time. >> i it couldn't believe i was standing in front of a masterpiece. >> you knew it right away? >> it was like a lightning bolt that hit me. it was that -- i mean, it was that immediate. there were several paintings stacked up on a landing before i went to the second floor to see what else was in this auction house and i just pulled the two paintings that were in front of this painting, i looked at it and i was like, oh, my god, this is by grich i & o, my first thought and words that came out and now, i had to try to acquire it. >> they didn't realize what they had? >> no. actually, i spoke to yvonne, my better half, and i said to her, i said quiet, don't say anything. the gentleman was at the bottom of the stairs, and

. >> 100 convictions are being re-eval waited in brooklyn alone, kristin saloomey, brooklyn, new york>> two big tech companies are starting to offer employees an unusual benefit paying for women to freeze their egg. facebook and apple announced the perk this week. volume asking is this a benefit at all or another way of saying, you can't be a working mom and -- you could be on working woman and be a mom at the same time. rachel is a founder of change the reratio. it focuses on gender inequality. >> i think it's fantastic. i think it's a great benefit, and i think it will be a great recruiting tool frankly. >> why not spimd the money on child care? why not spend the money on -- >> they women don't need child care. they are not having children yet. >> but doesn't this say to women, look. you know, we really don't want you to have a family while you work for us? >> no. what it says to a woman -- >> to postpone it? >> what it says to a woman is you are making choices. we are going to assist and facility ta one choice. the fact of the matter is women who want to freeze their eggs want to f