Ankara so were going to be following that for us as well as she heads in for her last day and john kerry begins his first day at the state department. You have to say right up til the end she is dealing with serious issues and ensures that security around the world in our embassies are one of the hallmarks of her tenure at state. This morning weve been talking about the possible suspects, hezbollah, iran, syria, also al qaeda, the suspects in benghazi bombing fled to turkey after that bombing. Lots of suspects in this. Thanks guy, appreciate it. We get to cnn newsroom with Carol Costello begins right now. Hi, soledad. Stories were watching right now in the newsroom the blast felt around the world. Suicide bomber strikes just outside the u. S. Embassy in turkey. We have the latest on this developing story. Mistakenly freed a convicted murderer on the loose, the latest on the frantic search to find him. Popular cough and cold syrups you may have in your cupboard are being recalled because the caps on the bottles arent child proof enough. Plus i cant even explain to you how insane it is in bat herher baltimore. What time is it . Game time what time is it . Game time big dogs in the house woof, woof a couple of hours ago a bomber got as close to the front gate of the u. S. Embassy in turkey before detonating. The state department scrambles to beef up security in response to the deadly attack on americans in benghazi, libya. Nicholas burns is former state Department Official joins us from cambridge, massachusetts, good morning. Good morning, carol. So this in all respects the suicide bomber targeted the u. S. Embassy in turkey. What do you make of that . Well, its just hard to know the motives and no group has claimed responsibility for this incident but i will say this, carol, we have been, the state department has been fortifying its embassies for the last 20 or 30 years in this age of terrorism, and the u. S. Government puts an extraordinary amount of time and attention to protecting its diplomats. We also rely on host governments and a determined terrorist attacker weve seen in this the past can sometimes get through and we lost one of our employees, a turkish employee today. One of the Turkish Security guards guarding that embassy was killed in that attack. As far as we know, no americans were hurt. Tell us what it must have been like inside that embassy as the suicide bomber detonated himself. No one can imagine, the concern, the fear, the confusion in a bomb blast like this. Unfortunately, the reality for our american diplomats, our Foreign Services officers overseas they have to live in this environment. Many embassy including our consulate in benghazi attacked just recently. Security is job number one for the state department overseas, it has to be. Theres a misconception sometimes in our Public Discourse here in the United States that we are totally responsible for our own security. Weve actually relied in over 275 different cities around the world, where our embassies and consulates are, we rely on host governments, on security forces, on the militaries and Police Forces in host countries so its a joint responsibility, and obviously the state department will have to look into this and try to determine who is responsible. Nicholas burns, former ambassador, thank you so much for joining us this morning. Well have much more from turkey later on ins in ns s icnn news the colorful mayor of new york city has died, much beloved. His signature line . Am i doing all right . Am i doing okay . Yeah, we remember that, the 88yearold koch had been in and out of the hospital recently. He died of congestive heart failure. His funeral will be monday in a synagogue near central park. Koch served three terms as mayor starting in 1978. He later found a new rule for his jubilant combative personality on the Peoples Court and hosted a radio show and never left his beloved hometown. Lets bring in john berman in new york, so what will be the mayors political legacy you think . Carol i dont think you can overstate his political legacy. For more than ten years ed koch was synonymous with new york. New york city was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and by sheer force of will and a pr salesman, ed koch really lifted new york out from the doldrums and in a Statement Today the current mayor Michael Bloomberg said new york city lost an irrepressable icon our most charismatic lecheerleader and champion. Ed koch has been out of office for more than 20 years but still had tremendous, tremendous reach in this city. His political ideology changed over the years. He was a fourterm congressman before he was mayor, a liberal, a real liberal in new york city, then he shifted to the right over his time as the mayor, and then in 2004 he actually endorsed george w. Bush for the presidency. He was controversial at times, a lot of heated racial conflict in new york city in his time as mayor but when you think back at the legacy which was your original question it was this man who adored new york, who bled, who sweated for this city and truly, truly loved it. He did. I remember. I did a lot of interviews with mayor koch, feisty until the end. Thats for sure. Oh, yeah. John berman, many thanks to you. Lets turn to the economy and new and encouraging signs this rng mmorning, more evidenc jobs market is recovering, albeit agonizingly slowly. 157,000 jobs were added last month and later this hour, wall street begins the day a little giddy. The dow celebrating its best january gains since 1994, and it all comes on the heels of president obama disbanding his jobs council, a group of Business Leaders who advised him on the economy. Republicans were quick to seize on the news, scoffing at the white houses handling of the council and the economy overall. If the white house spent nearly as much time trying to actually fix the economy as it did claiming it was fixed and then finding excuses and sca scape goats when its premature announcements were false i suspected the economy would be better than it is doing here today. Christine romans, is he right . The Unemployment Rate is still what, 7. 9 now. Yes, 7. 9 , 157,000 jobs created in january. Thats modest hiring. That is an economy that is healing still slowly but carol when you look at the end of the year, we had some revisions to the Jobs Creation in november and december. I want to show you the end of the year, things look stronger than we thought at the end of the year so hiring was picking up in november and december. Hiring picking up enough, carol, to actually eat into the number of people who are out there still looking in the wake of the recession. One area i wanted to show you thats really important i think when you look at construction jobs, carol, 28,000 net construction jobs added, thats because of Hurricane Sandy cleanup, and the housing market, carol, is getting a little bit better so were adding some construction jobs. I so like to hear positive news. Christine romans thanks so much from new york. At the bottom of this hour im going to talk to a former member of the president s jobs council, cofounder of aol, steve case, so stick around for that. New pictures this morning of reporters dogging democratic new jersey senator robert menendez. In case youre wondering these pictures were taken outside of his house in washington, d. C. Menendez fighting allegations he violated finance laws and had sex with underaged prostitutes. He gave his first on camera comments to cnn regarding this issue. Reporter senator menendez do you have any response to violating any Campaign Finance laws . I have comments printed at any office. Reporter nameless, faceless . Anonymous allegations. You should find out who that is. The senator is in line to become chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee. Scary moments for some alaska air passengers. Flight was forced to make an Emergency Landing because the captain passed out. And then all of a sudden the attendant started running up and down the aisle, ive never seen them go so fast and they announced if theres any doctors or nurses or anyone aboard to please come forward and then the rumor spread that it was the pilot. We saw the flight attendants run into the cockpit pretty quickly and as soon as that happened you know theres something going on and then the cockpit door opened and they lay the pilot on the floor, and went and got the defibrillator, thats what it was or some medical equipment and began to work on him. She asked if there were any medical personnel on board, emt, paramedics and doctors. One young lady came up to the front as well as another young man, worked on him for a while and he seemed to be okay. I think he hit his head. Wow. The first officer landed the plane in portland, organize oh, while a doctor who happened to be on board treated the captain. The captain was taken to an area hospital. In atlanta an Armed School Resource officer apprehends a shooter moments after he shot a fellow student. These are the same type of armed officers the nra is proposing for schools. The 14yearold was shot by another student outside the school, in what police are calling a previous disagreement. The teenager who was shot was treated and released from a local hospital. Charges are of course pending against the shooter. It was a mistake, a dangerous one, sheriffs deputies in chicago inadvertently released a dangerous killer instead of transporting him back to prison. Manhunt is under way in illinois and indiana, Steven Robbins was in court on unrelated charges. The charges were dropped but instead of being returned to indiana to complete his 60year sentence for murder, robbins was released by the cook county sheriffs office. Ted rowlands is in chicago. How dangerous is this man . Reporter well, carol, clearly he didnt plan an escape so this is a guy who has realistically no resources. It is hovering around zero outside in the midwest in terms of temperature with windchills below zero. Hes got to be desperate to find shelter, to find money so he is clearly dangerous, and they want to bring him in as soon as possible. He was serving a 60year sentence for murder and unlawful gun possession charges. He was convicted in 2004 in the state of indiana, and warrants have been issued in both indiana and illinois. The big question is of course how did this happen . How was he let go . He came here for a hearing on drug charges, even though he was serving this murder charge in indiana, they brought him to chicago to face these drug charges, old drug charges. They were dropped, as soon as he got into court and then when he left the courtroom, he went along with the other guys who had their charges dropped apparently and he was just let out, so within an instant the guy is out on the street and theyre desperately trying to find him. Why did they bring him to chicago to an open courtroom if theyre going to drop the charges . Thats the big question. Believe it or not this happened three years ago in chicago as well. They brought a sex offender up from mississippi to answer to some charges that were dropped. They let him go, in that case, he got out and turned around and basically turned himself in because he had nowhere to go. The hope is that mr. Robbins will do the same. Ted rowlands reporting live from chicago this morning. A quarterback, the player for the San Francisco 49ers says gays cannot be in the locker room. Now hes apologizing. Well talk to someone who says an apology is not enough. He says Chris Culliver needs to be suspended. 15 minutes past the hour. Time to take a look at our top stories. Tri triaminic and theraflu are being recalled because the caps are not fully child proofed. Novartis received four reports of accidental ingestion by children. Get more information about the products and questions at cnn. Com. Its day four of a tense hostage standoff in Southeast Alabama where a 5yearold boy is being held hostage in an underground bunker, this is a graphic animation, just like the one in alabama in a small town of midland city, friends and neighbors are speaking out with anger toward jimmy lee dykes. I hope they get you and i hope you live the rest of your life in prison and you never see the day of light again. Youre going to pay for what you did to this little boy and that bus driver. In north texas a manhunt is on to find whoever shot a prosecutor outside a courthouse. Kaufman County District attorney Mike Mcclellan had this message for the shooters. Were very confident that were going to find you, were going to pull you out of whatever hole youre in and were going to bring you back and let the people of Kaufman County prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. Theres a 20,000 reward for information that could lead to a conviction. Oh, it is cold in the upper midwest today. You can see temperatures in minnesota with windchills that make it feel like minus 25 degrees. Thats what its like in minneapolis and it feels like minus 27 in international falls. Woo San Francisco is one of the most gay friendly cities in the world, so imagine how shocked some fans were when one of their beloved 49ers said this. What about gay guys, any of them approached you . No, i dont do the gay guys, i dont do that no. Are there any on the 49ers . No, they dont got no gay people on the team. They have to get up without of ever they do. Cant be with the sweet true. Is that true . Thats true. They might be able to play well. No . No, no, you cant be in the locker room no. Thats Chris Culliver, a backup cornerback for the 49ers, as you might imagine within hours public outcry led to an apology. First i dont have no difference or anything in other sexualities and you know, just like that, and like i said thats not what i feel in my heart and i treat everyone equal, any type of way so its not how i feel. Joining us from new york is michael angelo, a sirius xm radio host and editor for requesting the Huffington Post gay voices. Good morning, michael. Good morning, carol. Did he sort of forget he played for San Francisco . You know, it really is shocking to hear comments like that from somebody playing for San Francisco, and the 49ers have been very out front about supporting lgbt people and the nfl has really been saying its going to take on homophobia so you have to wonder also about the sensitivity training and what theyve really done in talking to these players. Well he did apologize. Did you think his apology was sincere . It didnt seem sincere at all, particularly his written apology before he had come out and spoken. He said these were just reflections in his head, not in his heart, and im not quite sure what that means and his pr guy said we all misinterpreted what he said. I think it was pretty clear what he said. He said that closeted gay players should not think about coming out, and thats a threat to them. So what do you think should happen, if an apology is not enough . I think there need to be ramifications, repercussions, otherwise all of the nfls claims to take on homophobia are just empty gestures, suspension is something that they did for a player on the 49ers just a month ago, brendan jacobs, when he spoke out in a negative tone about his bosses. He tweeted something about his bosses and they suspended him. So are they saying that the team management, you know, is something more important than gay players and gay fans in terms of being insulted . I think there have to be some repercussions, a fine, something. It cant just go like this otherwise what stops another player from doing the same thing . Well, its interesting, because this comes on the heels of the ravens player, brendan ayandadejo is promoting samesex marriage and wants to use the super bowl to do it. I have this huge platform, its a message of pass activity and equality and its not going to affect the way i play football but affect a lot of peoples lives off the field. So maybe the best defense against this, forgive the pun, but is other players like pressuring players like culliver to maybe change their minds. Absolutely. Brendan ayanbadejo has been a tremendous advocate as chris clucl kluitt of the minnesota vikings. Another player of the vikings came out in opposing gay marriage. If you have an issue and engage in it civilly thats one thing but if you defame a member of the group there has to be zero tolerance. The nfl should be embarrassed, horribly embarrassed by this. If it were jews or blacks or any other group, he would be fired from the team. Thats what they need to do in terms of taking a strong stance. Michael angelo, sirius xm radio radio and Huffington Post contributor thank you for joining us. Thank you, carol. Baltimore fans are crazy . Oh, oh, oh, oh were in drinking town with a football problem. Oh, oh, uhoh its ravensanity, a 4 7 condition. i know San Francisco fans are crazy for the 49ers but theres Something Different about the fans in baltimore. When i say they love their ravens, i mean they adore them. And when you meet them, youll understand exactly what i mean. Its Early Morning in sbalt more and the city glows ravens purple. Its 6 12, on the inner harbor. Reporter Radio Station wiyy is hosting an alcoholfueled ravens pep rally. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh were a drinking town with a football problem. Thats baltimore. We tailgate for the Football Games and everything. Were diehard, we bleed purple. We love the ravens. What other city is up at 6 00 in the morning partying on a monday . We know we got work. We dont care. Were supporting our team. Reporter i cant even explain to you how insane it is here in baltimore. What time is it . Game time what time is it . Game time. Big dogs in the house. Woof, woof ladies and gentlemen your super bowl bound Baltimore Ravens. Reporter crazy, right . Not if you understand the ra