Skittish congress and a skeptical nation. Also ahead, watching the detectives. America tonights Christof Putzel with an in depth look at a new kind of Law Enforcement and a Community Taking on allegations of Police Brutality with their own brand of justice. On the beat with cop watch. Were just Getting Started, new and improved black pan he p, a new and improve young lords. Across the nation why their attackers remain at large. He came up from behind, covered my face. There is the only way i could identify him. The only chance was the dna they were able to get from my body. Lori jane gliha, rape kits left untouched. Will washington step in . Good evening, thanks for joining us, im joie chen. Gearing up his attempt to stop the group i. S. I. L, hes quick to say that does not mean a combat mission. Mr. Obama speaking at Mcdill Air Force base out of tampa, as the house authorized the training and arming of Syrian Rebels to join the fight against i. S. I. L. The United States has already widened its campaign, destroying an i. S. I. L. Position outside baghdad. His campaign to win support is full on. Like the generations before us were willing to defend this country we love. Were willing to help others on this planet that we share. The United States of america will remain the greatest force for freedom that the world has ever known. After meeting his top generals at u. S. Central command in florida president obama made a patriotic appeal to the nation to rally around his plan to degrade and destroy i. S. I. L. Its leaders have repeatedly threatened america and our allies and right now these terrorists pose a threat to the people of iraq, people of syria, the broader middle east including our personnel our embassies our consulates our facilities there and if left unchecked they could pose a growing threat to the United States. And in the fight the president was unambiguous, no u. S. Troops on the ground. I want to be clear. The u. S. Forces deployed to iraq do not and will not have a combat mission. They will support iraqi forces on the ground. As they fight for their own country against these terrorists. With the u. S. Military limited to air strikes and support roles the president is now seeking congressional support to arm and train moderate Syrian Opposition forces. The job of selling that to a Skeptical Congress fell to secretary of state john kerry appearing before the Senate Foreign relations committee. The issue that confronts us today is one on which we all ought to be able to agree. I. S. I. L. Must be defeated. Period. Are. With antiwar protesters behind him and hostile republicans in front. Kerry tried to drive home the no u. S. Ground troops message. We know a sustainable strategy is not u. S. Ground forces. It is enabling local forces to do what they have to do for themselves and for their country. But if not americans, then who . Ranking republican senator bob corker. Tell us what has been accomplished. What arab seeing nation is going to have a ground force in syria. What arab sunni country is going to be flying in and missile raids with an arab insignia on the side of the plane . Tell me that. Senator youll hear that in the next days. Im asking you are you convinced that that will happen . Let me ive already said that will hab. We will have arab sunni countries participating in the ground effort in syria . No, i didnt say the ground effort. On the notion that the Free Syrian Army has the capability to take on i. S. I. L. Corkers anger bubbled over. This doesnt even seem serious. We know the Free Syrian Army cannot take on i. S. I. L, you know that. With all due respect to you, senator, let me tell you something point blank. The moderate opposition in syria has in fact been fighting i. S. I. L. For last two years. For members of congress who will soon face reelection the prospect of taking a risky vote on arming the Syrian Rebels has little appeal. And for republicans who want to take back the senate and add to their majorities in the house, little incentive to act. Shows republicans gaining strength ahead of the mid terms with a 52 to 31 advantage now dealing with terrorism. On mr. Obamas handling of terrorism in the meantime is just 31 . Bill schneider joins us. 31 Approval Rating for president s Foreign Policy hand ling, 34 for his handling of terror. That makes a challenge for the president to sell this to the congress and the American People awfully difficult. Losing ground, particularly on Foreign Policy they dont think hes resolute enough. I dont think they want to go back to george w. Bush but they want him more decisive. To go to war when the voters dont have a lot of confidence in him. And on that particular point general dempsey goes back to the hill tomorrow, but on his last visit has suggested hes at odds to whether to put american troops into place. The president says he will not, dempsey says he might recommend that to the president. Thats what people are worried about. They dont want another vietnam, another iraq war, another afghanistan, they dont want to support anything that would put american troops on the ground and see American Forces coming home in body bags. And to that end, the House Resolution that was passed, it includes no money and no end game. Thats right. And it got a lot of opposition from democrats and republicans. If it includes money which theyll have to vote for, they will vote for that because they cant cut off funding for the military. But this is a bill to authorize the military action there and there are a lot of refertions rs there. A lot of people remember what happened at the gulf war back in 1991 when they voted to authorize that. It was a brilliant military victory and a lot of them voted against it. In 2002, a lot of people like Hillary Clinton and john edwards and john kerry voted against that and Hillary Clinton paid a price for that in the 2008 democratic primaries. And here we are weeks from the mid term elections as well. Our political analyst and al jazeera contributor bill schneider, thanks for joining us. Aside from an on engagement in iraq, the crisis in ukraine, this week can Ukrainian Parliament approved a deal to strengthen ties with europe and loosen controls over eastern ukraine. Russian back separatists are, this move, attempt to ease months of conflict, then the russian mints voted to send more troops to crimea. President Petro Poroshenko, Sheila Macvicar has an update. When Petro Poroshenko sits down with peupt, they will want to see more sanctions and the commitment that the u. S. Will help the europeans and others maintain pressure against russia. But the president of ukraine will also come with a shopping list. The United States has pledged about 70 million worth of aid to ukraine, in nonlethal military assistance. Thats things like night vision goggles, some body a armor, ra radios, nonlethal aid. Most of that aid hasnt arrived yet, its stuck in the pipeline. And its not clear when the time line is for that to arrive. The president will ask the United States for more battlefield medical assistance because the state of ukraines own battle field readiness is in shocking disarray. John quinn was hired by the Ukrainian World Congress to take a look at the state of ukraines combat medicine. We know from the experience in afghanistan and iraq that the golden hour, the first hour after someone is hit, is the most important time. For any kind of absolutely. Really successful intervention. How many of the patients, how many of the ukrainian soldiers in the field who were hurt, how many of them get help within that golden hour . Significant help . If i would really put it below 5 . We unpacked one of ukraines standard Battlefield Medicine kits. This is the kit that should be given to every ukrainian soldier as he goes into battle. This is whats in it. Looks like tweezers and a comb, something for a beauty kit of sorts. This is a barrier device in the event for breathing. Mouth to mouth . Yeah. And this is bandaids or plasters. These are literally bandaids. Literally bandaids. Judge for when you scrape your knee. American military standard that comes with things like modern tourniquets for limb wounds, that come with pressure bandages, that comes with coog o lands with coagulants. 15 ofen ukrainians who are now dying on the battlefield could be saved, if ukrainians committed to providing this level of combat medical care and training that goes along with it. The problem is, the bureaucracy is extraordinary, in one case were told just to get the material in to make up one of these nato standard kits took ten different pieces of paper from ten different ministries, something that ukraine cannot afford at a time of war. Thats america tonights Sheila Macvicar reporting to us from kiev. When we return, community and the comes. New allegations of Police Brutality by the nypd. Police brutality why local leaders see a worrying pattern of trouble with the police. And another accusation of Excessive Force in new york city, leads the community to take matters into their own hand. America tonight correspondent Christof Putzel on activists turning their lens on police. Since garners death how have you seen policing on the streets changed . To be honest it has changed to a point where police now are more afraid of the camera and like i said, they dont want to be the next Daniel Pantaleo, getting caught on camera actually doing Something Like that. An in depth look at new york citys cop watch and whether it is making a difference. Those stories and more coming up. Protestors are gathering. Theres an air of tension right now. The crowd chanting for democracy. This is another significant development. We have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live. A firsthand look at the ongoing battle against the isil threat. Bombs are cracking off in the distance. This is a booby trap in the islamic state. A sniper around the corner here. From the front lines, josh rushing reports, on Al Jazeera America the embattled new york city Apolice Department finds itself in the middle of another use of force allegation. This fight was caught on video. Witnesses said officers were trying to clear out vendors after a street festival but when they failed to move quickly enough eyewitness he say that officers got physical and several people were wrestled to the ground. One officer has been suspended without pay. Sunset park investigation comes on the heels of the controversy choke hold death of eric garner. Now been two months since garner died in a clash with officers on Staten Island. America tonight correspondent Christof Putzel, with two men trying to fix what they call a broken system. The rain fell on Staten Island on saturday afternoon. The family and friends of eric garner gather at a place he once lay, for what would have been his 44th birthday. They celebrated, sang danced a life that cut short. Garner died in july after being placed in a choke hold by Police OfficerDaniel Pantaleo. Hold garner up as one more name in a long list of victims of police brew tell the. Two months later as they await result from the citys investigation of the incident, residents here say theyre left with little trust in the nypd. One man has taken matters into his own hands. Jose la salle is the founder of cop watch. Cop watch is brothers and stergs who basically volunteer to go into the community to Document Police confrontation with citizens. As the sunsets he and his small team roam the streets of the most frequent stop and frisk spots. They become an inverted Neighborhood Watch with eyes, ears and cameras pointed at the cops. We feel through cop watch in our own Way Community and activists like ourselves could make a Police Officer accountable for their action because what well do well put them on social media and well blast it. For la salle, the mission is personal. I say close to 50 years ive spent in prison in and out of jail and it took a long time for me to find myself. La salle was arrested multiple times on drug charges. After his last stint in jail he met his wife nancy. But alvin was stopped by police in 2011. He recorded audio of the interaction one of the first public documentations of stop and frisk in action. It quickly went viral. Why are you touching me for . Stopping me for no reason. Why are you you are going to break my arm. It was traumatizing. Whether we heard that and the mother heard that, as soon as we heard the video, i didnt know what to do. I wasnt a an activist i didnt know what to do. He said he got no relief from internal affairs, and just a week later his wife died of a heart astack. Its been a roler coaster but now part of the community. I just feel like ive got to be a superhero or something. Ive been fascinated by superheroes and now i feel like a superhero. I feel if theres a crime being committed by a Police Officer, i need to be there, my uniform on, cop watch uniform and im out there. La salle and others in the community believe nypd officers have stepped back in the Staten Island district, since garners death. The data also show a similar decrease in major crimes for precinct with robberies assaults and burglaries down between 30 and 40 . But mayor bill deblasio denied that the Police Officers were given orders to back off. Since garners death, how have you seen things change . It has changed a lot, to where police are more afraid of the camera and like i said they do not want to be the next Daniel Pantaleo getting caught on camera doing Something Like that. While la salle is taking the battle to the streets, Richard Emery is taking it to the courts. We sue the police and continue to do this in this law firm. We are a private law firm here and often do civil rights cases of all variety, often police cases, were suing rykers island right now. In july the mayor tapped him to lead the ccrb a Citizen Group which investigates Police Misconduct complaints. Effective policing is by definition constitutional and respectful policing. The ccrb is essentially the bridge between the communities and the police department. And it arises out of the fact that people dont trust the police to discipline themselves. They want some independent entity to make determinations about Police Misconduct. Emery acknowledges he was brought in to gain a major year of haul of the organization. How effective has ccrb been in the past . It has never been effective to put it bluntly. In the early days it was an internal police function, that didnt work, and then in the mid 90s for about 20 years it has operated as a sort of back water operation in my view, kangaroo court, they have been forced to participate, the public has no other place to go. Full display in their last meeting. It was raucous. It was really amazing when you think about it and i think it was a real great lesson in what we ought to be exposed to. To heck with the people. We have to be exposed to these meeting. We sit there on the podium talking about ccrb processes and talking about improvement and talk about all this kind of mum go july go government talk mumbo gumbo government talk. Then we have a Public Session and these people get up and spill their guts out about the sadness of their situation when theyve been confronted by Police Officers. I was ran down by police in front of my house. I got my ankle and my leg broken and i got arrested. The big eggs critique, the ccrb have no are way to discipline Police Officers. They can only write recommendations. From there it is up to the commissioner, bill bratton. 25 to 50 of our recommendations have been thrown out. If the ccrb doesnt have the authority to police the police, what is the point at the end of the day . It last the requirement to require Police Officers to justify themselves, to face the complaints and explain the circumstances that led to the allegations of misconduct to be accepted or not received. That is enormous power. Process is power. Its not only outcome thats power. Emerys candid about the challenge he faces. Hes already made public an array of intended reforms. From the promises of ccrb oftsdz in each neighborhood to faster turn around in investigations. All i can do is figure out what i think is needed and see if i can get this bureaucracy to respond. Im in the early stages of this so i dont know for sure. Do i think i can be successful who knows. Do i think can i improve i. T. , yes. For la salle it will take more convincing. We need to let john know and let the people out there know what is going on here . When we look at the face of the board members, when we were speaking and when other people in the community were speaking it was priceless. They had no choice but to take these punches and stand had and just take these hits. But these hits that it was taking was the reality of whats happening in these community of color, with Police Officers when they go in there to patrol them. Reporter not willing to wait to see if the system can reform itself la salle will continue to dole out his own form of justice. Once they understand and fear what that has to be going through and that patrol guy to be honest is getting us that power. You think cop watch is just Getting Started . We are the new and improved black panthers, we are the new and improved young lords, we are the new and improved fre Freedom Fighters and theres no stopping us. Christof putzel. Al jazeera new york. Ahead, scotland ready for a vote that could decide whether or not the union jack, why in the hours before the vote, the outcome is too close to call. And later on, changing the menu, what he gained from giving up. I called it an addiction to money but i think its actually bigger than that. Because what leaving wall street meant to me was leaving behind an entire system of beliefs. How he went cold turkey on his wealth addiction, later on in the hour. Now a snapshot of stories making headlines on america tonight. Less than 48 hours after the Minnesota Vikings announced their star running back Adrian Peterson would play this sun, the team changed course, while he faces charges for beating his fouryearold son. After womens groups criticized peterson for not taking action. He remains on the run at this hour. The hunt has stretched into five days leaving a small town in rural pennsylvania on edge. His father described him as an expert shooter who in his words, doesnt miss. Frame police say said he wants to commit murder and killed police. Before the st. Louis grand jury late tuesday, all of the proceedings are closed to the public. The police will release all audio recordings if it fails to indict the officer. In the next 24 hours scots will decide whether the United Kingdom stays united or whether after 300 years scotland will go it alone. Rallies for yes and no camps kept people up late in the night. In four of the main cities. Turnout is expected to be well over 90 . Of course only residents of scotland can vote in the referendum but that hasnt stopped other brits from weighing in. Theyve got allot of stake here, it is a country on the edge of breakup with all that goes with that. Gretna, on the border between england and scotland, stones, thousands of them, the pile has grown from one stone bearing an impassioned me, now grown to nine feet high. Were joined by malcolm chalmers. Who once wrote the article, defense of an independent scotland. First wed like to ask you about your own loyalties in this. After all you were born in scotland. Do you consider yourself a scotsman . I do very much so. I was born grew up in scotland, went to university in grand, met an english girl, and have lived here most of my life. Im very much scottish but im british as well. The union we have created has bested both scotland and england. You would not want to see this division not see scotland break off. No i wouldnt, there are many, many people in gland, if you visit and talk here, there are a number of people who say they have got a scottish cousin or grandfather. People in scotland the number of people there my mothers family came from england and settled in glas gow. Glasgow. These nations have incredibly close bonds as a result of three centuries together. So it would be something of a separation, something of a divorce if these two nations split. It would do. What passport would i have . I guess i might end up with two passports, a scottish passport and a u. K. Passport. Scotland is not an oppressed country. Scotland has been an integral part of the union. If you see the number of scots men and women working in the Foreign Office the armed forces and the ministry of defense in key business positions, scots are overrepresented in the country we created together and it would be a great shame i think if people in london started asking are you loyal to u. K. Or to scotland. For people and me it would be an awkward situation. On your spees, you mentioned the defense department, on your question, where would defenses be located on scotland and the u. K . If scotland became its own separate nation, it would have to have its own arnold forces, and the question, i hope if there is a yes vote it would be a cooperative process. Malcolm chalmers is special advisory to the u. K. And a scotsman at heart. We appreciate your time. Thank you. Tens of thousands of rape victims and untested evidence could be justice denied. Rape is a crime that is treated very differently than any other crime. Police make a judgment call as to whether or not they believe the victim. Now america tonight exojt Lori Jane Gliha says theres more to it. With just one vote, putting an end to allegations. Coming up on consider this, president obama again puts the brakes on Ground Troops fighting i. S. I. L. After hundreds of girls have been kidnapped in nigeria, have we stopped paying attention . Plus Hillary Clinton 2016, is this a sign of more to come . When we see you at the top of the hour. Its been called one of the most shameful numbers in american Law Enforcement. The department of justice reports some 400,000 rape kits sit untested nationwide. America tonight has been following developments on this very closely and now we report theres more to the story. This week the vermont senator Patrick Leahy says he will try to pass a bill that will allocate more than 150 million a year to help clear the backlog. It is suspected he will fail. Rape victims will be denied due justice. America tonight correspondent Lori Jane Gliha first brought us a story of a kit that went untested for more than a decade after which her attacker raped other women. Honestly, the Law Enforcement response was worse than the rape. It would be more than a decade before megan was taken seriously. They kept saying, you know youre going to go to jail if you make this up right, youre not doing this just for attention right . In 2003, a rapist attacked her, she was just 16 years old. You were asked, are you sure you were rai really raped . It was confusing. Was there a moment when someone actually believed you . No no no. Despite what she said was the skepticism of the handlers of her case, evos decided to undergo an exam to prepare a rape kit. These kits are an important tool in prosecuting sex crimes. The body of the rape victim is a crime scene, tested for dna leading to the attackers identification. He came up from behind me and attacked me and covered my face. There was no way i could identify him. The only chance i had was the dna they collected from my body. Evos assumed it would be handled quickly but it sat on a shelf for nine years. Officials cant explain why. If my family didnt believe me, i dont want to think about what would i have done. This is evos First National television interview. She doesnt want to be remembered as simply a jane doe. They interrogate you like you are lying. They accused me of lying. And then dont call you back. No. I was on edge, i didnt know what the man looked like he was wearing a ski mask. I didnt try to protect myself, he could be anywhere, he could be anyone. In 12 evos kick was finally tested. This man Anthony Alliano was identified, he was sentenced to 178 years in prison. Had evoss kit been tested right away there was a chance that he could be arrested before he raped other women, thats where codus comes underplay. Police look for a match in codus. Even if one isnt found having that dna on file is important. We will cut one swab. If an attackers dna turns up at a crime scene in the future that person will still be caught. Less than a year after alliano raped evos Police Responded to a call outside this are motel, they caught alliano red handed. Alliano admitted to having sex with a teenage girl. As in evoss case the dna wasnt tested. What do you think about the fact that he slipped through the cracks, he could have been caught. It disgusted me, given the way Law Enforcement responded to my report, im not surprised as well. In 2012 her mother happened to see a report on tv about alliano, thinking it might be her attacker evos called police. Finally they decided to test her kit. At what point in time did you find that your rape kit had never been tested . When i called, and then that person told me that they would send in the rape kit to be tested. What were the words they said when they found out that your rape kit had not been tested . They said, we will send it in now. The city announced it failed to test more than 12,000 rape kits some dating back to the 1980s. Natasha alexenko is also a rape survivor. 1993, new york city, raped by a stranger at gunpoint. She believes a good reason why kits go untested is because of the min mindset of many in Law Enforcement. Rapes a crime thats treated very differently than any other crime. It is really the only crime where police kind of make a judgment call as to whether or not they believe the victim. Untested kits arent just a problem in memphis. Police in detroit found 11,000 untested kits. In cleveland, 4,000. In phoenix, 3,000. Nationwide the Justice Department estimates there are 400,000 untested kits. When you brought that kit out thats a human being. Alexenko has an organization thats working to clear the backlog. Some are being sent here. This lab in suburban washington, d. C. Is the biggest private processor of rape kits in the United States. The data doesnt lie. New york city has a policy where they test every single rape kit and according to the fbi, new york city has a 70 arrest rate because they test every kit. Whereas the rest of the nation has a 24 arrest rate. The enormous backlog of untested kits in memphis first came to light when a local tv station started asking questions. At first the city said there were only 2,000 untested kits before upping the total to more than 12,000. Weve had enough false starts. A. C. Horton junior has been the mayor of memphis and has taken the lead. What did you figure when you realized there were 12,000 test kits that hadnt been tested . I dont know how to describe it. It was just frustration. The number of untested kits is going to stay where it is that youre not going to find thousands more in coming months . You can never say we are absolutely positively certain. But based on the time that we have been in this inquiry im reasonably certain thats as far as its going to go. Horton says he cant speak about the specifics of evos case because of lawsuits against the city. But the city has launched an investigation into why all those kits sat untested for so long. Morton says the city also has a methodologmethodical plan. According to the mayors office, more than 4500 kits have been sent to the lab for testing so far resulting in 174 investigations and 26 indictments. If you could give a message to all of the victims out there that have been discovered and have yet to be discovered how will you put them at ease as far as making sure they do feel they have been treated fairly which some of them have expressed they do not . There is no way in the world i will tell them oh no you shouldnt feel that way. All i can say is, it is built up over a number of years, its going to take a while to get it done and get it done right. If any victim wants a weekly report theyre going to get it. All they got to do is ask. Megan evos intends to thold mayor to his word. She has become somewhat of a shadow, pressing the mayor whenever she can. You start to wonder, is rape really illegal . Apparently it was not a big deal for nine years that alliano was on the loose. Like the law says is illegal, i have to wonder is it really illegal . Lori jane gliha, al jazeera, memphis. After the break hear the road to recovery. How a refugee from wall street is trying to overcome a different kind of addiction. All i can see was my own need for 1 million. My need for my next bonus. I was using money to fill this hole inside me. And the problem was that no matter how much money i made, it sort of never fixed the sort of inner problem that i was feeling. And i do believe that thats probably true of the cultures as a whole. We hear from a former wolf of wall street with a unique perspective on the world of the 1 . Array. If you want free press in the new democracy, let the journalists live. Audiences are intelligent and they know that their needs are not being met by american tv news today. Entire media culture is driven by something thats very very fast. There has been a lack of fact based, in depth, serious journalism, and we fill that void. There is a huge opportunity for Al Jazeera America to change the way people look at news. We just dont parachute in on a story. Quickly talk to a couple of experts and leave. One producer may spend 3 or 4 months, digging into a single story. At al jazeera, there are resources to alow us as journalists to go in depth and produce the kind of films. The people that you dont see anywhere else on television. We intend to reach out to the people who arent being heard. We wanna see the people who are actually effected by the news of the day. Its Digging Deeper its asking that second, that third question, finding that person no one spoken to yet. You cant tell the stories of the people if you dont get their voices out there, and Al Jazeera America is doing just that. Finally from us this hour the Census Bureau reports income inequality in america is alive and well and has even gotten worse in the last 15 years. By one analysis the economic recovery in the last 15 years has really been a recovery for the rich. The top 1 got 95 of the income gained while for most americans incomes remain stagnant. Sam polk is a refugee from that 1 . Says hes a recovering addict, addicted to not drugs but to wealth. His journey back from wealth addiction. There have only been a few moments the my life where i saw something and it was like, thats what i want to do, and first time i walked on to a Trading Floor was one of those moments. I was a senior at columbia, falling off the face of the earth was really scary, you had goldmagoldman sachs and k otheri got that internship at csfb and i was 22 years old. I remember the first time i walked onto the csfb Trading Floor and it was a whole different world than id ever seen. It was like these guys were playing a big video game. I started bank of america in 2003. I worked with a guy that had two ferraris. There was just money around. One time on the Trading Floor when one of the senior traders he had this greatly black hair. Somebody had asked him how much would it cost for you to shave your head and he said 6,000. And they said okay youre done. And so this woman with hair clippers came on to the Trading Floor like 10 00 in the morning and while this guy was trading literally shaved his head. I remember thinking how crazy that was like he was doing it like it was totally bizarre. But i remember thinking he just earned as much as my car cost. I was 27 years old when i left bank of america to work for a hedge fund. That was the moment that i sort of started living a lifestyle that cost a lot. I asked my girlfriend at the time if she wanted to move in with me and we moved into this cavern oust lot of on bond street. I just paid for entire year, 75,000. It was craidzy. At that time crazy. I started to notice something about wall street. The only thing that was changing was how much money i was making. Even still the first year was 45 thousand then it was 75,000 then it was a million then more than a million i was still jealous of other people. I definitely felt like i didnt have enough money. All i could see was my own need for a Million Dollars. My need for my next bonus. I was using money to fill this hole inside me and the problem was that no matter how much money i made it sort of never fixed the sort of inner problem that i was feeling. And i do believe that that is probably true of the culture as a whole. Trading the market in 2008 during the crash was like being on roller skates on a ship in the middle of a storm. All of a sudden i saw these guys at the top of who were both saying that they couldnt have anticipated this stuff and werent actually taking responsibility for it. And i was like oh so maybe these guys at the top arent masters of the universe. Maybe they are just guys that happen to be at the top and what theyre trying to to do is hold onto their seats. It was definitely like a turning point. I left wall street when i was 30 years old. I brought in like six and a half years over 5 million. It was so hard to leave that world and then to still be in manhattan and still be around to go to dinner and see the group of wall street guys and they were all making a Million Dollars that year and that i wasnt it was really scary so it was really important that i get out of that world. I call it an addiction to money but it is actually bigger than that. Because leaving wall street meant to me leaving behind an entire system of beliefs. I was dating my girlfriend who is now my wife. So we came to los angeles in 2010. Food is something i struggled with my whole life. I grew up an obese kid. My wife and i watched this story, this conflict between hunger and obesity. There were kids who lived five miles from where i did that not only had to worry about their next meal was coming from. Ten families who received a scholarship for groceries. That means they went through a Six Month Program where two hours each week they meet and go through this class. Maybe at some point there will be like superhealthy restaurants with really low prices and low income areas and wed certainly like to be a part of that so for the meantime there is not. So what weve done is created a program that could alleviate that disparity a little bit. When groceriaryships was just an idea i called up michael my former boss on wall street and i said michael you know we are thinking about starting this program, its going to be scholarships for groceries for low income families. I think a single groceryship is going to cost about 3,000. Are you willing to donate one . He just looked at me and said ill take 10. Thats how groceryships started. There is a tremendous amount of personalities on wall street but there are complex human beings who have families and friends. And some of my greatest friends are still on wall street. Sometime and time again our culture has the way of demonizing people and thats the way to solve the problem. The real question in society how is it that we are so angry over these people but we still aspire to be them. We want our kids to go to harvard, and get into goldman sachs. But its a problem that happens in sloven and the red carpets, youre valuable if you are successful and prestigious and famous. Or if you are living an ordinary life, you arent worth anything. My wife and i are expecting our first child a daughter in april. So more than anything that i want to do is give her the sense that shes valuable no matter what. So she doesnt have the sort of tortured part of her that is trying to make millions or trying to be famous or feels that at some point in the future that would be enough. I hope that she will people from the beginning that her life is enough and she is enough from the beginning. Words to consider. That is it for us here on america tonight. Tomorrow on our program, scotlands continuing push for independence. The far reaching consequences. Remember if you would like to comment on any stories youve seen on tonight tonights progu can log on to aljazeera. Com america tonight. Good night. Well have more of america tonight, tomorrow. Will there or wont there be Ground Troops in our fight against i. S. I. L . President obama and his former defense secretary add to the confusion. Also, another nfl player facing new Domestic Violence allegations. Hello im antonio mora, welcome to consider this, well have