ken pritchett live in san jose where he heard firsthand a plea for the u.s.to do more. >> reporter: this is the syrian church of the east here behind me. there's a large syrian christian community here in the bay area. some of them here after fleeing from persecution. a persecution that continues for syrians in their homeland. >> reporter: a predawn raid by isi s . it happened in villages in northeast syria on monday. an atrocity a world away, the pain felt here at home. >> i have 20 cousins from that village that have been kidnapped. >> reporter: peter betbasdo is a christian syrian. and he got ahold of them. >> nobody can get in touch with their loved ones. the phones are being answered by isis. >> reporter: the kidnaps raise concern. a worry felt strongly here at the assyrian association. >> we as a community we could not assist them not to get in this trouble. >> reporter: gonje is an assyrian community leader. he says this attack forced many to flee their homes. many without food or water. often persecuted and ignored as they fight isis. >> for me as an

new at 10:00, ken pritchett is in san jose, says the asyrian community in the united states is calling for prayers in church services around the country. ken. >> reporter: frank, the asyrian church of the east is calling for prayers and for help from the international community for a people that have often suffered and been ignored. the service is in asyrian a modern version of aramaiac said to be the language of jesus. >> very little media coverage has been given to them because it's a small community. >> reporter: this prayer service sparked by the kidnapping of men, women and children from isis from a dozen villages in northeast syria. >> yesterday we heard very bad news that they said isis claimed they will put the children in a cage and put fire on them and burn them unless some of the isis hostages taken would be released. that's what we heard. i hope it's not true. >> reporter: the mass kidnapping by isis just one of its many atrocities. this week video showed militants at a mosul museum destroying syrian art and statutes dating back to the beginning of civilization. >> to tell

ken pritchett is in san francisco where bike riders are giving the idea mixed reviews. >> reporter: itsimple idea but maybe it's not. take these rental bikes you see around san francisco. they're very convenient but who carries a helmet with them. on market street this evening commute there were plenty of cyclists to see and most of them would be slapped with a $25 fine if this helmet rule becomes law. >> the helmet gives you a false sense of security. if a car hits you how much is that going to propose you. >> reporter: some see it as the motorcycle helmet law. >> you're just helping keep health insurance down. everybody has their own helmets and have less issues. >> reporter: statistics of u.s. department of transportation show in 2013 of 741 deaths, 63% of people were not wearing helmets. >> i think people should have the choice. >> reporter: david moleski has been a cyclist for 28 years he works at cycle city in alameda and says he wears a helmet when conditions want warrant. >> i don't discourage them at all and i would never say don't wear a helmet but i think that should be up t

that's different than what you see with the commercial aircraft. >> ken pritchett in napa tonight, ken, thank you. >>> new at 10:00, a newly elected congressman from the east bay takes a second ceremonial oath of office in his home district. >> congratulations. >> [ applause ]. >> reporter: mark desaulnier was sworn in this morning. and doing the honors former congressman miller. the new congressman says miller is his mentor. >>> the mayor sticking point in the court labor dispute and why both sides are reluck tapbtd -- reluctant to call for a full strike. >> the whole country is starting to feel the pain. >> and i'm tracking the pattern of this cooling pattern. >> and mardi gras celebrations are going on throughout the night. the local celebration that's not only about fun but also about fund raising. >>> celebrations are wrapping up at this hour in new orleans. but as you see here hundreds of people are still on bourbon street ahead of clean up crews and the police. traditionally around midnight or so, new orleans police ride down bourbon street on horse back to clear the streets and

. >>> ken pritchett with a road tax that will cost you. >> reporter: $58 was the suggestion. potholes are much more common than they should be. california was short last year $6 billion just to pay for road repairs. in his budget announcement, governor brown asked lawmakers to find a way to pay for $59 billion in overdue repairs to bridges, roads and highways. this week assembly speaker tony athens proposed a $52 fee. >> i don't like the fact that they won't let hard, you know people's money that work real hard for it. >> the money has to come from some where. roads have to be fixed and people have to drive. >> reporter: part of the funds would go to the transportation fund. ultimately the road fee would generate $80 million a year. it could be a fee based on how much we drive. one problem with basing the speed on how many miles you drive and how you track it it could take a years to put a system in place and the money is needed now. another problem is the driver's may not want the state monitoring their driving habits so closely. >> looks like i'll have to be getting a bus p

ken pritchett, fox 2 news. >>> we have breaking news from san francisco at this hour. we just received a report of a police shooting. initial reports indicate that it happened just a few minutes ago just before 10:00 at 24th and mission. we do have a crew headed to that area. sfpd is also sending a public information officer we're working to get more information as soon as we do, we will bring it to you. >>> demonstrators staged a noisy protest against google and one of his top employees tonight at the san francisco offices. dozens of people rallied against the evictions of people on guerrero street. google bought the property and evicted one tenant and is now trying to evict four others. they claim that's immoral and unethical and against google standards. >> we're here to protect our own homes and raise awareness about the eviction epidemic that's happening. >> reporter: he and the other tenants were supposed to be evicted today but they're refusing to move and plan to fight. >>> we now know the name of the executioner who is seen on those isis videos beheading hosta

ktvu's ken pritchett is here now to explain. >> this would be the first war authorization granted by congress since the war in iraq in 2000. congress wanted this request from the white house, but if approved, it will come with considerable debate. >> reporter: what president obama is asking for is congressional approval for a battle well underway. >> our coalition is on the offensive. isil is on the defensive, and isil will lose. >> reporter: prohibiting quote enduring ground operations. >> it is not the authorization of another ground war, like afghanistan or iraq. >> reporter: those words intended to appease skeptical congressional democrats. >> none of us really know what enduring offensive combat operations means, and deliberately, i think drafted to be ambiguous. >> there is no appetite for any boots on the ground except in limited circumstances. >> reporter: it would allow the use of rescue operations and when the president deems necessary. >> a gathering of isil leaders, i would be prepared to order our special forces to take action. >> reporter: even without a war authorizati

new at 10:00, ken pritchett live in the city where gascon tells us, anti theft technology is already starting to show a an improvement. >> reporter: san francisco's da says apple has already implemented this technology in its latest iphones and he says the results have been dramatic. >> reporter: everywhere you look on market street you will see smart phones and eyes glued do them. they draw our attention, no wonder that make us targets. >> we know that here in our own city we have several people that were assaulted and injured due to a cell phone robbery. >> reporter: george gascon has spear headed the kill switch technology that make the phones worthless. >> we know it's having a benefit across the nation and throughout the world. >> reporter: cell phone thefts down by 27% last year in the city. iphone thefts down by 40%. gascon says apple was an early provider. the technology to brick a stolen phone has been around for a while. some companies fought new legislation to make kill switches automatically installed in phones. >> it's in their benefit to have you buying new phones. >> t

it's a developing story and we have more from ken pritchett who is on the scene. >> i talked to police a short time ago and some of the details of this had been refined, at least by police since our report at 5:00. initially reported as a multiple vehicle collision that involved pedestrians and now it appears that there was at least we can say there was one car involved in this. if you look beyond down san pablo here, just beyond those officers, there's a tan or gold buick that has a smashed window. according to witnesses and according to police, that car was traveling at a high rate of speed when it struck two men, two pedestrians around 32nd street. one of those men was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. the second man was thrown into the air and landed in the back of a pickup truck. he died here at the scene. hehe is clearly devastated by what some of them witnessed here. they say he is a 39-year-old man who just attended a fundraiser at a park down the street. there are many people around here who say they knew this victim, who of course we're not identifying

ken pritchett on 32nd in oakland. ken, thank you. >>> new at 6:00, a bay area contractor on the run. he is accused of collecting thousands of dollars up front and then never doing the work. tonight, there is a warrant out for the arrest of adon revis. his customers know him as adam. melanie tracked down his work truck today, but melanie, investigators don't know where he is. >> exactly. we have passed along where we found his truck earlier today. in the meantime, homeowners from danville, la fayette are out thousands of dollars. >> omega collins was just trying to improve her house after a devastating blow to her home. >> my husband was diagnosed with colon cancer. so, we needed a place for the kids to come and place while he was resting after his chemo treatments. >> contractor, adam revis was working on a neighbor's house. he offered to trim some trees. >> initially, he initiated the conversation and we just talked about different projects that maybe he could -- his crew could take on. >> after a megagave adam $3,000

. >> ken pritchett live in san francisco. ken, thank you. >>> b.a.r.t.directors decided today that protesters should not be forced to pay restitution for a black friday protest that stopped trains for hours. 14 protesters shutdown the west oakland station the day after thanksgiving. they shut down service for more than three hours. today in a 5-4 vote the b.a.r.t. court asked the district attorney to pursue misdemeanor counts of trespassing on railroad projects. but they also asked the d.a. not to pursue. $70,000 in restitution which works out to about 5,000 for each protester. the demonstration against police brutality came in the wake of grand jury decisions in ferguson and new york. >>> from police shootings to police protests it appears that the riff between officers and certain segments of the community isn't going away any time soon. both sides agree there is a divide. >> we partnered with youth uprising in east oakland to bring together two men with two very different perspectives. claudine wong with how that conversation went. >> reporter: the me

ken pritchett here now to show us how the debate turned political today. >> reporter: this public health concern over measles did turn into a political hot potato for chris christie today. after his comments on vaccinations drew criticism and a quick clarification from his camp. it was on a tour of a pharmaceutical factory where chris christie managed to make waves at home with this statement. >> i understand that parents have to question what their kids get. >> reporter: chris christie staff quickly explained the statement. both comments come at the heels of president obama's interview. >> i understand that some parents are concerned about the effects of vaccination. the science is pretty undisputable. >> he followed by saying parents should get their parents vaccinated. >> he did. it's wonderful. >> reporter: facuta calls for vaccines. >> we're about supporting what our science tell us and we know the vaccines are safe. >> reporter: chris christie's comments seen by many as a political misstep. at the expense of the known safety and value of vaccines. >> the science is irrefutable. >>

ktvu's ken pritchett is here now with the new actions in this growing war against isis. reporter: almost lost in the headlines made by that summit, a key treaty signed today with a vital ally that will allow the u.s. to train syrians to fight isis in their country. speakers to leaders from 60 countries in a white house summit on violent extremism, the president tried to draw a clear line. he asked muslim leaders to fight oppression and poverty, that lead to isis. >> these terrorists are desperate for legitimacy. >> reporter: the talk was matched with more coalition air strikes in syria and iraq. this video released today of u.s. bombing targets on isis. and the diplomatic pressure continued as well. as the u.s. looked to extend the air strike campaign to libya. >> there's a lot of work ahead of us. >> reporter: to the north in turkey, the u.s. signed a key treaty with that government that will allow the u.s. to arm and train syria. >> we thank them for their efforts. >> reporter: the deal with turkey took months to hammer out as turkey wants the u.s. trained rebels to als

. >>> ken pritchett is live at police headquarters with the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: i spoke with oakland police a short while ago. still no update on this hit-and- run driver they're looking for. san pablo avenue shut down for several hours this evening. it was this buick that hit a man. >> i heard the impact first then i just happened to notice that i seen this object which i know was a guy flipping in the air. it was a perfect flip. >> reporter: he witnessed a man land in the back of a pickup truck where he was pronounced dead. >> the male pedestrian was struck, injured, taken to the hospital with what we consider nonlife threatening injuries. >> reporter: he was walking on san pablo after leaving a fundraiser event at the park. >> i just spoke to him and said get after the street. you know how these fools drive. that's exactly what i said. >> reporter: several people at gas station report seeing the man driving down the street. >> i definitely don't want to tell the public we don't need their help. we do need their help to identify what happened. >> reporter: smit

ktvu's ken pritchett is live now in napa, where some people have managed to move on, while in other spots time stands still. >> reporter: i'm standing here at brown and 3rd street. this is where you and frank were standing in the days after that napa quake. at the time, 6 months ago, you look at this building and wondered how they would make repairs. clearly, those repairs are well underway. here in napa, this recovery has made significant progress, but much work needs to be done. in a store full of vintage collectibles and gifts, there's thousands of items that can break. and that's what happened. >> it was terrifying. >> reporter: terrifying to business owner, patricia tremble, because about half of her inventory was scattered, and broken on the floor. >> i lost about 38,000. >> reporter: >> reporter: what came as she tried to recover tried her even more. >> when fema came 6 months later, being turned down by them device, being turned down by every bank twice. >> reporter: around downtown napa 6 months later there, is a mix. some damaged buildings are being restored. others like the old

ken pritchett has more. >> reporter: the claim that the american was killed by jordanian air strikes come with much skepticism. kidnapped after leaving a doctors without border hospital. her friends asked her name be kept quiet until they negotiated until now. >> the daughter is one of those folks that looks for the good in everything. >> reporter: isis claims she was the lone casualty when this building was struck by jordanian bombs. >> you can see this is a multi story building. other buildings were flattened and she was the only person killed in this attack. >> what we know about this terrorist organization is they are liars when they come to these things. they use these events to manipulate facts and manipulate public opinion. >> reporter: jordan has ramped up air strikes in syria in retaliation for the execution of lieutenant akasade. the captured f16 pilot was burned alive. now called the martyr, they are rallying in the area. >> we have one goal and just to stop them. >> reporter: ebarhem is president of the american jordanian organization. they plan a candlelight vigil for th

. >> yeah, ken pritchett, thank you. >>> more news now from overseas, in taiwan a plane has crashed into a river in the capital. 58 people were on board. at least eight are dead. the fuselage wound up half submergeed in that river and rescuers rushed to get victims out of the plane. taiwaneese officials say 18 people were taken to the hospital. the plane had just taken off and was on its way to a small taiwaneese island. >>> and now to breaking news from san francisco, where the man arrested friday night following the discovery of a dismembered body. prosecutors are saying there just wasn't enough evidence to hold him. paul chambers is live. >> reporter: mark andrus is a free man. hoe was just released a half hour ago from jail here. still the district attorney's office says this is an active investigation they will continue to follow up on. >> mr. andrus is very released that the district attorney decided not to file charges against him. >> reporter: for days, police have said that mark andrus was the the suspect of a decapitated body found in a suitcase in the trash can. that all chang

. >> well, let's hope they can come to some sort of compromise, want to see them hit the field ken pritchette in contracosta, thank you. >>> albany five middle school students went to the hospital after taking pills. the five students were girls the superintendent of the albany school district says the fire department was called at about 11:15 this morning, the students were transported to the hospital, no word tonight what types of pills the seventh and eighth grade girls took but expect to do recover. >>> legislation that would allow doctor assisted suicide in california headed to the cal campus this afternoon. new at 10:00 heather holmes is at uc berkeley where it hosted a cancer patient from san mateo who is pushing for california's aid in dying bill. heather? >> reporter: frank as this woman fights for her life, she's also fighting for the right to die. on her own terms. and she's turning to college students for political support. as a university renowned for its bustling activism, welcoming an activist to wheeler hall. jennifer glass of san mateo has been living with advanced lung canc

. >> ken pritchett in sunnyvale tonight, thank you. >>> we now know more about the man arrested, then released in the body parts case. a police source tells ktvu, 54- year-old mark andrus died of gastrointestinal bleeding and shock. he was arrested on january 30 after the discovery of a suitcase containing body parts, but he was released due to a lack of evidence. the body still has not been identified. former san francisco police chief, tony r ibera says officers will have to rely on forensic work and interviews to end this case. >> talking to people, trying to find a path that leads to the murder of the individual. >> our police source said andrus was a heroin addict, and his body showed the effects of a hard life. we also spoke with andrus's brother. he said he had not been in touch with him, since his release from jail last week, but that was a good person. >>> the bay area drying out after this weekend's big storm. from this time lapse video of tonight's sunset, you can see there are still some clouds, but the wet weather is gone. >> however problems remain along the russian rive