At this hour, we are hearing that several people have been hurt. Well bring you to the pentagon for the latest on this story, just ahead. Also breaking news ahead. The former mayor of new york, ed koch has died. He was 88 years old. A look at his legacy this morning. A controversial, combative, confrontational and brash mayor, and the people of new york city loved him. Well tell you about that, straight ahead. Christine. And the first jobs report of 2013 released in an hour and a half. The numbers for you, what it means for the health of the economy and the jobs market. And the defense secretary nominee on the defensive. Chuck hagel grilled on capitol hill. Did he blow his shot to convince lawmakers that hes the right man for the job . Friday, february 1st, and starting point begins right now. Welcome, everybody. Breaking news, we start with. Two people have died, several people wounded in explosion that has taken place outside the u. S. Embassy in ankara, turkey. Chris lawrence joins us from the pentagon. Reporter good morning, soledad. Not much information right now. Turkey authorities are responding to that scene, trying to collect more information. The blast happened just a short while ago, some. News reports out of that area, saw a big flash, heard a big bang. Reports of several people wounded near a side gate of the embassy. Were waiting for more information, the u. S. , of course, has two major air bases in turkey no, where near the capit capital. Soledad. Thank you, chris, for watching this story. Also, we told you just moments ago, the former new york city mayor ed koch has died. He passed away from congestive heart failure. He had really problems with his health over the last many years. Mayor koch elected in 1977. He was a judge on the Peoples Court, and he had been hospitalized recent well fluid on his lungs. Moved to intensive care yesterday. He was 88 years old. Richard socaridies joins us. Writer for new yorker, former aide to president clinton. When i was a kid growing up in long island, mayor koch was almost a mythical figure. Larger than life. When i grew up in manhattan, he was mayor, and as you said, he was very feisty, said what he thought. New yorkers loved him. He gave new york some tough love. He would say whatever he thought, famous for savering a city from bankruptcy. But also governing at very challenging times, beginning of the aids crisis. A locality of racial tension and diversity. Issues of racial tension and diversity in new york. He served during very challenging times, took very controversial positions, no one questioned he loved the city and a fighter for new york always. His personality itself, a lot of new yorkers identified itself as the new york personality. Someone who loves the city so much. He was a fighter. Some of the quotes as weve been reading, talking about his passing. You punch me, ill punch you back. Most famous of all, asking how am i doing . And the voters for a long time said very well. A threeterm mayor, but had challenges when he was running for governor, of course. I mean, most of his election s involved some controversy because of what he said. He had a very nasty run in a primary when he ran for governor against mario cuomo, went on to become governor. Thats not what i think people will remember today. People will remember him fondly as someone who really fought for new york. He was a presence in new york city. No question. The last time i saw him was within the last month, i mean, his health had been up and down. He was very frail. The pictures going into the hospital, and into intensive care, he was very frail. His health had declined. I think i probably saw him within the past four to six weeks out, and, you know, you could tell his health was not great. But he was out, vibrant, vibrant until the end. Mayor bloomberg has leased a statement that i want to read a little bit of it. He says through his tough, determined leadership and responsible fiscal stewardship, ed helped lift the city out of its darkest days and set it on the course for an incredible comeback. His wit and wisdom will forever be part of a city he loved so much. He was such a big new york figure. Such a personality. Such a big new york personality. I suspect there will be a very moving couple of days of tributes to him and an important funeral, and it really rents the end of an era, his passing. Of course, another story were following as it develops, intense manhunt going on right now for one or maybe two suspects after an assistant District Attorney gunned down outside a courthouse in texas. His name is mark hasse, a prosecutor in Kaufman County, 30 miles outside of dallas. Killed, shot several times as he got out of his car in the courthouse parking lot yesterday. Authorities are now pleading for leads. The fbi is on the case. His boss had a message for those responsible. I hope that the people who did this are watching. Because were very confident that were going to find you, pull you out of whatever hole are you, bring you back and let the people of Kaufman County prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. Drew griffin is in Kaufman County, texas for us this morning. Tell us about the leads as narrow as they are in this case. Reporter they are going back into this guys caseload. 30 years hed been a prosecutor. Knew the inherent risks. Some cases he was working on recently and whether or not they could be tied to the aryan brotherhood, White Supremacists. Two members were sentenced excuse me, fled guiplead guilty houston, texas. That was a federal case, but the Kaufman CountyAttorneys Office did aid in the case. He was shot dead right here in this sparking lot behind me, just as he was walking to work. No Death Threats against him at the time. Soledad. Drew griffin. This case really is a mystery. Thank you for the update. Another story were following, that continues to develop, the hostage standoff in alabama that weve been talking about since tuesday, the little boy, five years old, kinder gartner, held a fourth day in that underground bunker. Nothing changed overnight. The boy appears to be unharmed physically, they continue to sdmu communicate with the suspect. With a big pvc pipe coming out of the bunker. Tell us more about the bunker. New details about that. Reporter soledad, a neighbor i spoke with the other day. The same neighbor who said dykes fired a pistol at him back in december. This neighbor has been on the property. He has seen the bunker and took some time to describe to me this place where dykes has been hiding out. Take a look. He reporter jimmy davis jr. And his family have been neighbors to jimmy dykes since he moves to this area and bought property here more than a year and a half ago. And davis says hes seen the bunker first hand. He told me its a storm shelter and i have not seen that in about eight to nine months. Not sure what hes done to update it or anything. When you saw that bunker, what did it look like . How wide, how deep it was . Like a 15 by 15 foot wide in length and about 12 foot deep and lined with bricks, like the little red bricks. Reporter davis says dykes travel trailer, where he lives, sits 20 yards off the road and behind the trailer is a massive steel shipping container that davis says dykes used as a ched. And behind that, slightly to the left, sits the underground square bunker. Actually had cinder blocks going down the steps and covered up with two sheets of plywood nailed together with hinges and stuff as a door to open to it. Reporter davis saw the bunker early in its development. It had a tarp and sand over the top. He also noticed a pvc pipe buried in the ground from the bunker to the front gate. He said he put it there to hear people or cars that approached the front gate. Any indication why he built this bunker . Shorm shelter is what he told me. I forgot where he told me he used to live, he said there was a bunch of tornadoes that would hit close to his house, so he was preparing for it and make sure he somewhere to get in. Reporter soledad, i can tell you when you talk to neighbors out here, they describe dykes as a paranoid person, a person who worried a great deal about alien abductions and one neighbor told cnn affiliate wsfa that dykes may have known the slain bus driver, charles poland, at least in passing. A bus driver with a routine route through this area, near dykes home. Its unclear, soledad, the reason that compelled him to get on the bus and make off with a child to hide out in the bunker on day four. Such a bizarre story. George howell as he continued to cover the story. Thank you, george. Appreciate it. More information on the explosion we were just telling you about outside the u. S. Embassy in turkey. One dead. John with an update, and also the rest of the days top stories. Thank you, soledad. It was a suicide bomber and two people were hurt there as well. Ivan watson live for us, covering the story from jerusalem this morning. Good morning, ivan. Reporter good morning. A blast in turkeys somewhat sleepy capital. In a very well protected area, not far from the turkish parliament. A Large Police Presence there and were getting initial reports that blast occurred near the main entrance to the u. S. Embassy. Ive been to the entrance, it is at least i would say kind of 20, 30 yards away from the embassy offices. You have to go through a succession of doors there and metal detectors and so on. Turkish officials are telling our sister news agency in turkey, cnn turk, that two people were killed in this explosion and two more wounded. We dont know what kind of a blast it was. Could it have been an accident . It seems unlikely, but its still far too early to announce this is some kind of an attack, as for possible motives, if there was a possible attack there, is a long list of organizations inside turkey that carried out bombings in the past, running a full spectrums of political ideologies from anarchist troops to Kurdish Armed militant groups to islamist groups. Al qaeda has carried out attacks in the past against british consulates in turkey and of course, you have this war on the Syrian Border next door happening right now. So there are a whole host of groups and organizations that could theoretically organize an attack if, in fact, this was an attack. Another thing to add, turkey is a nato ally of the u. S. And in the last morning the u. S. Has dispatched hundreds of u. S. Personnel, as well as Patriot Missiles near the border between turkey and syria to help protect turkey from aircraft, air strikes, missile strikes from syria. This gives you a little of the political background as rescue workers scramble in ankara in the wake of this deadly explosion near the u. S. Embassy. John. And just this week so much going on in the region, going on in the world. The news of the israeli bomb strike in syria. News in the United States, Hillary Clintons last day at the state department today. Some significant events going on around the world. Are these the types of things that authorities will be looking at to piece together if there was a motive behind whoever might be behind it . Listen, no question that the tension in the region has been ratcheting up. Not only because of the raging Syrian Civil War. With the u. S. Backing the opposition and rebels, others like iran backing the syrian regime. Under immense pressure and losing grund. But within the past 48 hours, reports that israel carried out air strikes against targets inside syria and promises of revenge coming not only from the syrian regime, but also its allies in lebanon, hezbollah, and from the iranian government. Inside turkey, its important to point out, john, there are a whole host of organizations that have carried out acts of Political Violence within the last five years, and, again, ill mention, they range from leftists to kurdish separate group known as the pkk. And then you have this bleeding sore of the Syrian Civil War that has been spilling over borders as well. Well have to take some time to figure out who is behind this and at this point, they are still trying to collect the wounded and the casualties from the explosion and the embassy very much on lockdown in the wake of the deadly blast. Ivan watson, thank you very much. Cnn reporting one person killed, two others wounded. Ankara police say it was a suicide bomber outside the u. S. 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[ female announcer ] tylenol® cold multisymptom nighttime relieves nasal congestion. Nyquil® cold and flu doesnt. Were following this breaking news suicide bombing. These are live pictures now of the scene. One person reported dead. Two others hurt. Want to get right to senator dan coats, republican from indiana. Joins us from capitol hill. Formerly ambassador to germany. Thank you for joining us. Lets talk about the blast thats happened in front of the u. S. Embassy in ankara, turkey. What are you hearing about the situation, sir . U. S. Presence everywhere in the world is under threat and we have to be very careful about how we deploy our ambassadors and those who are representing the United States. We live in a dangerous time and a number of entities want to harm us. Just another example, we have many challenges in front of us on a security front. Were continuing to watch what happens there. Getting preliminary information about one person dead, a couple of other people have been wounded and it appears to be a suicide bombing that has taken place. Lets talk about the chuck hagel hearing yesterday. Which was i thought in terms of performance kind of a mess for him. Here is an oped. Former nebraska senator chuck hagel was at turns halting, question if you hadaled and often just plain bad during his confirmation hearing to be the next secretary of defense. And it almost certainly wont keep him from becoming the next man to lead the pentagon. What were his actual i guess content stumbles . And do you agree, it wont keep him from coming the next secretary of defense . As most of us know, chuck hagel had a spotty record relative to policy positions that would put him in a position to mainstream policy as secretary of defense. I dont think he did himself any good yesterday in terms of how he addresses seemed very uncomfortable to many of the questions. He left the impression of who is the real chuck hagel . The one who took extreme positions, outside the democrat or republican administrations or the chuck hagel trying to recast himself once he is nominated. Stumbled on key questions, had to be corrected on a couple of issues, i dont think it was a good day for chuck hagel. One of the issues you are very interested in is the issue of containment. A little bit about what he said about containment that he to be corrected on. Lets listen to that first. Ive just been handed a note that i i misspoke and said i support supported the president s position on containment. If i said that, i meant to say, obviously his position on containment, we dont have a position on containment. To make sure your correction is clear, we do have a position on containment, which is we do not favor containment. We do not favor containment, thats the president s position and my position. I want to clarify the clarify. Senator levin helping him out a little bit there. I guess the takeaway, it seems to be you are concerned that he is not going to take military action, no matter what, if, in fact, he is sworn in as secretary of defense. Is that your big worry on that issue . My biggest concern is his position on iran. Iran is relentlessly pursuing nuclear capability. This is not just a threat to the middle east, but to the world. In four president s, two republicans, two democrats, including this president , says this is totally unacceptable. Yet chuck hagels position on sanctions and the kind of thing we need to do to prevent this is not in tune of where we need to go to address this. Number one challenge to the United States from a Foreign Policy statement and the National Security standpoint and chuck hagel simply off the page on this that was the primary reason i could not support him, whether it is republican or democrat, that took that position. Lets go back are to where we began. Saying it wont keep him from becoming the next man to lead the pentagon. By some counts it looks like he has 5 6 votes. Enough to pass, maybe not enough to stave off a filibuster. Where does this go . I think its too early to tell based on the performance yesterday, i think new questions will arise. If democrats want to aabsolute the preside salute the president and turn their head the other way, i suppose he could be nominated. But i think democrats and republicans have real questions about whether this is the right person for this critical position. You think the 56 votes arent really 56 votes after yesterday. I would want to go back and recount those after yesterday if i were senator hagel. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Obviously well continue to talk about what happened yesterday. That was such a i mean, the testimony by chuck hagel, just a mess, and i think what senator coats said about recounting those numbers, right . It all comes down to numbers, fascinating. 7 1 2 hours, three boards to prepare, but he didnt look particularly prepared. Here is someone who has been on the other side of the hearings. Certainly knew what was coming, plenty of time to prepare. This was you knew this was going to be tough. But someone going into this would have been perfectly prepared. It didnt show. Staying on top of the story out of turkey, breaking news outside of the u. S. Embassy. A suicide bombing there. One person dead, others injured. Live to turkey with an update o