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>> why he has the child, we don't understand, but we would just really ask that he would have mercy upon this young child and let him be returned to his parents. >> reporter: this is a community, charles alan poland jr., he gave his life trying to save the school bus full of children. he'll be laid to rest on sunday. jon: what a sad story. elizabeth, thank you. jenna: up next, one of our big stories today, terror in the country of turkey aimed at america. you have a deadly explosion hitting the u.s. embassy. why now? who's behind this attack, and what does this mean for the year ahead and the ...

Two people are dead, including the bomber. the turkish government blames an illegal group of left-wing radicals responsible for several acts of terror in turkey since the 970s. jennifer given is live -- griffin is live at the state department. what are the indications about who's behind this attack? >> reporter: it's in the turkish authorities' interest to down play any terrorist group, they want to blame this on a domestic group. turkish authorities say they have identified the attacker and say he belongs to a left-leaning marxist group known inside of turkey, the revolution people's liberati...

The region, they think of the u.s. as a quote-unquote imperialist power, and i think now it would make sense that we have sent troops to deploy nato patriot missiles to defend turkey against syria, they see that as something that goes against their fundamentalist ideological thinking, and as a result of that, the group has been called into action. unfortunately, as small as this group might be, one could anticipate future targets on u.s. interests in turkey should further nay to have or troop and hardware ce employments take place in theing months. -- in the coming months. jenna: what do you t...

Ourselves potentially for more attacks by this group inside that country? >> well, turkey's the only nato ally that borders iran and syria, so it is a valuable ally, and i think turkey has pivoted back to the u.s. in the last couple of years, erasing some of these concerns that you raised in the sense that the country now realizes as the largest economy in that region of the world, as a rising power, it needs the united states for security, it needs nato because it has a civil war across from its 510-mile-long border with syria, and a civil war could easily spill over into turkey. what we saw ...

Interesting that these attacks are happening when the u.s. policy in the region is really withdrawn. we are not active in syria. we are doing just little, minor things around the edges, and yet we're a target. the turkish prime minister, erdogan, has been very vocal about syria and assad's brutal crackdown, and yet the attacks are happening on an american embassy. i think this just proves that america's always going to be a target whether we have a tough policy like in the bush administration or a weak policy during the obama administration. jenna: and let me get back to the issue of timing as...