Life. Henning was part of a Team Delivering relief supplies when he was abducted this past december. It was his fourth trip to syria. In a message to isis his wife said, alan is a peaceful, selfless man who left his family and his job as a taxi driver in the uk to drive in a convoy all the way to syria with his muslim colleagues and friends to help those most in need. When he was taken, he was driving an ambulance full of food and water to be handed out to anyone. His purpose for being there was no more and no less. This was an act of sheer compassion. She goes on to say, i cannot see how it could assist any states cause to allow the world to see a man like alan dying. Three Muslim Leaders in england have released a video calling for Alan Hennings immediate release. Their message the aid workers execution has no place in islam. Alan henning is an aid worker, a humanitarian, a man left behind his family to help the syrian people. His desire was simple to do whatever he could do to help the people suffering under the cruel regime of bashar al assad. I say this to you so that you know that this man is innocent. There are many, many people in the united kingdom, muslim and nonmuslim alike, reliable and trustworthy individuals who will stand and testify to this mans good will and his nobody intentions in traveling to syria. Isis vowed to kill alan henning if the United States continued air strikes against its targets. In a plea to isis a doctor who was traveling with henning says that the aid worker has nothing to do with u. S. Foreign policy. She spoke with cnns karl penhaul about her colleague and his abduction. Is this the first time youve spent christmas away from them . Yeah. Reporter taxi driver alan henning on a Mercy Mission to syria. That was christmas day. Youve got some presents from other members of the convoy, didnt you . I got a nice tshirt, aid for syria tshirt. Some aftershave. Some chocolates and some biscuits. Oh. Theyre all great lads. Father of two henning was the only nonmuslim on the british aid convoy. Fellow volunteer dr. Shamila islam sufariq and her family drove with him. He really wanted to make sure that he was counted as somebody that got up and did something, not just made a simple donation and sat in the comfort of their own home. Reporter members of the 50vehicle convoy affectionately nicknamed him gadget. Uncle gadget, as my children call him, he traveled with us on several convoys. Has a love for all things that are technical. And he really was is the guy that fixes everything. Here we go. Reporter the convoy was taking ambulances to help syrian civilians caught up in the war. Henning dedicated his vehicle to a british doctor purportedly murdered by the Syrian Regime a week earlier. To save the life of one means to save the whole of mankind. And you know, its one of my favorite quotes. It was a quote that alan was helping to put on the side of the ambulance. Reporter at the turkeysyria border henning volunteered to cross over into the battle zone with a tenperson advance party. They recorded their cautious progress, greeting refugees as they went. Moments after that video was taken dr. Shameela received a desperate call. We received a phone call about half an hour later. It was a very distressed, distraught individual on the evened of the phone to say that gadget had been taken after armed gunmen had come in, masked armed gunmen had come in, with the description of the group that are holding him. And theyd come in and they questioned everybody. Theyd asked everybody for their passports and their phones. And theyd given the passports and the phones back but they singled out gadget and they took him. And this was something that we thought was just a temporary measure, that they were just going to with him being a nonmuslim and being visibly english that they would just question him further and then they would let him go. But as isis and rival rebel factions clashed, that didnt happen. Theyve just dropped a bomb here. Theyve just dropped a bomb. Just not far away from us. As you can see, its very, very close to us. Allahu akbar. The convoy advance team recorded this explosion as it fled back to the border. Back in hennings hardscrabble home town in northern england, well wishers have tied yellow ribbons to lampposts and street signs. None of his workmates at the mini cab company nor any of the neighbors down his street are talking. All are hoping. Now with isis threatening to execute henning theres a sense time is short. Very difficult. Im just greating we know the deadlines coming up. We know weve got a very small the time is running out. Reporter but nobody is giving up. I have a message for isis. As your sister in islam i would implore you and beg of you, please spare the life of this innocent man. He is not part of your struggle pl he is not to blame for the actions of western governments that you fight. Reporter i ask her how we should think of henning in his hour of need. Just that smile. And his his concern and care for everyone around him. And his beautiful, beautiful golden heart. Reporter karl penhaul, cnn, echols, england. We want to switch you now to live video. As you can see, pope francis shaking hands there. Hes just walked down the steps of his airplane, arriving in r tirana, albania. The vatican says the pontiff is there to bring a message of coexistence to this mostly Muslim Country during his oneday visit. This is the popes first trip to a european country outside of italy. He was in south korea recently. He plans to celebrate mass in the albanian capital there. And well continue to bring you highlights of his visit to albania throughout this morning on cnn. Hundreds of kurds from turkey have gone into Northern Syria to help defend a kurdish town from isis militants. The fighters are protecting kobani, which is wedged between the Turkish Border and isiscontrolled territory. The sunni militants have seized some 60 nearby villages over the past several days. The militia protecting kobani says its trying to prevent a massacre of the 50,000 kurds that live there. Kurdish leaders have warned of another humanitarian crisis if the International Community does not intervene. Turkey has now opened its border for refugees displaced by the fighting around kobani. Look at the number of refugees. The Prime Minister says more than 60,000 kurds have crossed the border since friday, bringing what few belongings, as you can see, carrying them on their shoulders, that they could gather. The country is already providing for about 815,000 people displaced by syrias civil war. Well, there has been a Second Security incident at the white house in two days. This time involving the driver of a car. The secret service says a man failed to stop at the entrance to the white house saturday. He eventually got out of his car before getting to the buildings barriers. When the driver refused to leave, Police Arrested the man and charged him with unlawful entry. The New York Times says before the incident the man had tried to enter the white house on foot from another gate. In the earlier incident friday, authorities now say a man who jumped the white house fence and made it into the building was armed. He was carrying a knife. The 42yearold is accused of unlawfully entering a restricted building while carrying a deadly weapon. There he goes. According to a Washington Post report, no guard dogs were released to chase the man down. A standard procedure for any breach. As aaron mcpike reports, many are now concerned about security around the white house. Reporter a Security Breach at the white house this flagrant seems unthinkable. Get back. Get back everybody back in the park reporter but friday night the man captured on this cell phone video not only scaled the fence in front of 1600 pennsylvania avenue, he ran up to the building and barged through the front door. Secret Service Officers yelled at 42yearold Omar Gonzalez to stop. But they didnt shoot. Theyre going to have to do something with the fence. Even if its something as simple as curving the bars over toward the street side, the pennsylvania avenue side, which would make it harder to scale. Remember, time buys you options. And right now they dont have time. You scale the fence youre almost right at the door. Reporter once he got inside, officials apprehended gonzalez. An ambulance took him to George WashingtonUniversity Medical center for evaluation. Everybody turn around. Head out the gate here. Youre going to have to go out to 17th street, please. Reporter parts of the white house and press corps were evacuated while secret service combed through the bushes and grass to make sure gonzalez didnt drop anything on the grounds. The incident happened just four minutes after the first family had left the white house grounds for the weekend. This isnt the first time a white house breach has occurred. But almost all fence jumpers are captured within seconds. Ive never heard of such a thing. Ive been there for hundreds of fence jumpers. And they never make it even close. You know, we have dogs. Theres multiple layers of security. There was a failure here. Reporter to ensure no risks to the family upon their return, the secret Service Agents pictured here began a canine sweep of the north grounds to reconfirm gonzalez left nothing behind. Again, thats erin mcpike reporting from washington. Gonzalez is scheduled to appear before a u. S. Magistrate on monday. It was the terror attack that changed kenya. Coming up here, we look back on this, the First Anniversary of the Westgate Mall tragedy. Welcome back. The attack on the westgate shopping mall. 67 people were killed when militants from the somalibased Group Al Shabab stormed the Shopping Center at around midday. Westgate remains closed and still bears signs of the horrific damage it suffered during the threeday siege. Business and tourism have been affected since. A candlelighting ceremony will take place later to honor those lost. Thats as those who survived are still struggling to come to terms with an attack on kenyas very heart. [ gunshots ] we heard a series of gunshots. We called everyone to the corner. All the kids and the mums and the parents and everyone. And we said get down, get down, get down on the floor. And just as we did that, the gunmen tossed a grenade to where we were. I was sitting with my daughter. My wife was doing some shopping upstairs. She had left us just a couple minutes before. And heard a loud explosion or blast followed by some gunshots all of a sudden a wave of people started running back away from the parking lot. I just sort of turned and ran back. [ gunshots ] lets go upstairs. We heard machine guns. And then we started to run. And it was the second explosion which knocked us on the ground. The sound was loud, and children, i believe theyve never heard something that loud. So they started screaming. And at the same time the shots started coming in. And i just w56atched, because w were right near the wall i saw something whiz by my sons head. It bounces off the wall and hit the little boy over here who was standing next to him. I tried to, you know, put my hand there to stop bleeding. I dont know what i was doing. I dont know what i was doing. But i couldnt save him. You could hear while we were back there them methodically kind of going from store to store, talking to people, asking questions, shooting, skraecream and then it would stop for a while and they would go to another store. The guy with the white shirt spoke first, and he said, were from somali, and we dont normally kill women and children, but then again, youve killed our women and children. His colleague next to him tall skinny face. Black. He just opened fire. I would say the scariest moment was when some people started to leave maybe about an hour and a half into our time there and then i made it about halfway across the room. All of a sudden a wave of people came running back. At that point i had no idea if wed been discovered, if somebody knew where we were and was coming after us. So that was definitely the most terrifying moment of those three hours when we were in that room. On the ground now. We were helping everyone who got like shot or something because they were all bleeding. So we had our aprons. So we had to give it to them so theyd stop bleeding. You cant sleep. You just remember things. And at least there was one point i just thought id lost her. Wed been trying to look for our dad. Today i found him. He was dead. I cant say anything because you have nothing to do. Let god do his work. Nema abager is in london with more on this story. It was a horrendous story. You were there. I was sitting here anchoring when it first broke out. We started covering it live. And we just had no idea the scale of what was happening, really no idea what that the mall was under siege at first. And you can certainly see in those victims voices and on their faces that theyre still very scarred. Where is kenya now with this attack one year on . Well, still trying to come to terms with the reality of what happened. As you said, in the very heart of kenya. But also trying to come to terms with the fact that very little has come to light about who these people are. To this day only two of the attackers have been positively identified through dna. There are a lot of worries amongst the families of the victims that perhaps more could have been done, more should have been done, and especially for those who were able to maintain communication with their loved ones who were inside the mall who were hearing their voices and knowing they were alive, right up until that third day, up until the monday when the government fired the rocket into the mall and brought the roof down. And i think for a lot of kenyans thats whats been so hard to try and move on from, that there have been no answers as to why this happened, did this really need to happen. The committee that was supposed to meet still hasnt met. The forensic investigation, because of the state of the bodies after that building came down and how long it took the recoverers to go into the mall after that, there is no there really is just no closure for kenyans. And the hope is these vigils, the first one begins this afternoon about 5 00 kenyan time. There will be another one monday and then tuesday and then wednesday. Four days in which people will have the opportunity to light candles and say the names of those who died in this attack, that that will at least finally go some way to begin the healing, natalie. We wish them well. And that has to be extremely difficult. So lets talk about the Bigger Picture of the threat, nema, of al shabab. The African Union forces have been pushing into shabab territory. How is that going . They have, natalie, and they have been theyve been making a lot of ground. They are poised, we understand, just a town or two away from badowe, which effectively has become al shababs capital in South Central somalia. That was where the failed navy s. E. A. L. S attack last year was. And that was where the successful drone attack on the head of al shabab, godane, was carried out a few weeks ago. So the hope is now that al shabab are pushed out of somalia, that at least they can be destabilized enough to try to root them out from the region. But of course were saying that but weve seen continued attacks through the summer, continued successful attacks in kenya. You talked about the toll its taken on the tourism industry, the toll its continuing to take, but just on that sense of security the worry is that you might be able to uproot al shabab from their territorial footprint in somalia but until you can really uproot their cells in kenya that they will continue to have a presence in that horn of africa region and beyond, natalie. All right, nema albager for us. One year on. Cnn of course will cover those candlelight remembrances there in kenya today. Thanks, ne machlt. It is named phuong won and it has already walloped the philippines. Coming up where is the Tropical Storm headed next . Thats coming up next in international weather. Etergent residue. Can we help prevent this . Yes, use finish jet dry. It goes in your dishwashers dispenser to help eliminate spots and residues. Wow, what a difference Tropical Storm fungwong continues to cause more dangerous weather in asia. This was the scene saturday in taiwan, where flood warnings were posted. The system battered parts of the philippines friday, as we showed you, leaving at least seven people dead and 200,000 in temporary shelters. As the cleanup continues in the philippines and taiwan, its getting hit with heavy rain, as we mentioned. Meteorologist ivan cabrera is tracking the storm and will tell us where its headed next, ivan. Worst track this could have taken as far as the heavy rain potential with the Tropical Storm hitting the philippines. Very floodprone there, certainly. And then heading to taiwan with very heavy rainfall, which is not done of course. Some of that rainfall tails down all the way into northern luzon. So well continue to see some rainfall there. There youll see the monsoon getting involved with what looks like a giant tail from the storm. But we had two things, two features going on here. Weather conditions will begin to have begun to improve in the philippines. But look at taiwan with all the cloud tops now depicting some very heavy rainfall now. In fact, we take you to the taiwan radar locally here. You can see the center of circulation making landfall just a few hours ago and now its moving up to the north. My concern will be as this continues heading up to the north where most People Living on the western side of taiwan, we are going to get that onshore flow pulling in from the west. And that is whats going to be providing us with some very heavy rainfall here. As the wind hits the mountains right in the center of taiwan, its going to come crashing down. We have the potential for landslides and mudslides. Rewinding to the philippines still look at the numbers coming in, 194 millimeters in proper manil