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according to an agency spokesman, mark sullivan is retiring as director.s been with the secret service for 30 years, and spent nearly the last seven years in his current post. the secret service came under fire last year, when some agents were involved in a prostitution scandal in south america. at the time, president obama said, he had confidence in sullivan's leadership. former new york city mayor ed koch. has died. koch was elected mayor in 1977 and served three terms. he was also a former congressman. and appeared as a judge on the t-v show "the people's court." koch was moved to intensive care just yesterday. he was 88 years old. it's day four of a terrifying hostage situation in alabama. police say, a five- year-old boy is being held in an underground bunker by a gunman. the police, the f-b-i and a hostage negotiator. are all still at the scene in the small town of midland city. investigators say, the gunman boarded a school bus, killed the driver and grabbed two children. one managed to escape. the bunker is reportedly equipped with electricity and

his name is mark sullivan. he joined the secret service in 1983 and was appointed director in 2006. >>> a suicide bomber sets off blake killing himself and gird outside the u.s. embassy in -- a bomb killing himself and a guard outside the u.s. embassy in turkey. it did not damage the embassy itself. >>> on her last day on the job secretary of state hillary clinton speaking briefly on that attack in turkey. clinton says she's told the u.s. ambassador to turkey how much she values the team's service. the senate approved john kerry to take over her job earlier this week. >>> the dow closed over 14,000 today, the first time since want 7, all that despite the new un-- 2007, all that despite the new unemployment numbers which inched up a bit to 7.9%. one economist says it does make a psychological difference for smaller investors. >>> this morning's snow quickly giving way to sunshine and a whole lot of wind. topper shuttoins us now from the weather center. what's the rest of the night shaping up like? will this wind

murk sullivan is retiring -- mark sullivan is retiring this month. secret service came under fire last year when some agents were involved in a prostitution scandal in columbia. at the time, president obama said he had confidence in sullivan's leadership. >>> new tonight at 11:00, a warning for all you twitter users. you may have been hacked. twitter says some 250,000 accounts have been compromised. now, we're talking everything from your e-mail address and password. if you are affected, you should be getting an e-mail from twitter. >>> actor bradley cooper is using his break out role to bring awareness to a very serious subject. today he was in dc talking about mental illness and the stigma surrounding it. he wants to change that in a big way. in his latest movie, cooper plays a man with bipolar disorder. >> i had the privilege of going from somebody that was ignorant to empathetic, and now i can take action. and this is the little action i can take. and if everybody else puts the time in to understand, they can start to take action. the next thing y

we also learn mark sullivan, the director of the u.s. secret service is retiring after 30 years with the agency. his tenure, of course, included the prostitution scandal among those agents posted in colombia. >>> the white house moved today to compromise with religious leaders in the battle over contraceptive insurance coverage, part of the president's health care reform law. the new plan would allow employers opposed to contraceptives, such as catholic hospitals and colleges, to have employees get the coverage through separate, individual insurance policies, not connected to the workplace. >>> a man who was once one of the most powerful figures in the u.s. catholic church has been publicly rebuked, reprimanded and humiliated over his handling of hundreds of past abuse cases in the archdiocese of los angeles. cardinal roger mahoney has been rebuked by an archbishop in l.a., stripped of all his public duties. that's the first time that's happened since the church child sex abuse scandals first became known. the archdiocese also released t

we understand the secret service director mark sullivan made some news this afternoon? >> reporter: that's right, we expect him to announce his retirement by the end of the day. director sullivan has served on the secret service for more than 30 years. i am told by my sources this decision comes because he has had such a long career with the agency. he also wanted to do this after the inauguration, wanted to make sure that he saw this through the inauguration and then made his announcement that he was in fact retiring. of course there was some scandal that occurred during his tenure at the secret service. you'll remember the allegations that agents were engaged with prostitutes during the president's trip to cart hen cartagena. an investigation found that the secret service handled that investigation properly, that they followed all appropriate measures. my sources are telling me that director sullivan believed this was the right moment to announce his retirement, that essentially he can at this moment go out on a high note when this very positive report has just come o

according to multiple sources, secret service director mark sullivan will announce his retirement later has served with the secret service for more than three decades. i am told by sources that this decision comes after the inauguration. this is something that he has been thinking about given the length of his tenure at the secret service. of course, during sullivan's time at the agency, he had that scandal, the prostitution scandal with the agents in cartagena who were accused of soliciting prostitutes while they were there. it led to a dismissal of a number of agents. sources tell me he believes this is a good time to leave. it is after the inauguration. remember, you just had that dhsoig report which found that the secret service handled its own internal investigation of that cartagena scandal properly. that they followed all of the measures that needed to be followed. so, again, this decision to retire i am told by my sources who are close to this announcement say it comes after what sullivan believes was a long career and one that he is ready to step down from at this point in time

. >>> number five, the resignation of secret service director mark sullivan.h the agency for 30 years, protecting five different presidents. he was promoted to director in 2006. the end of his career, though, was clouded in controversy, including a scandal involving secret service agents and prostitutes ahead of a presidential summit in colombia. >>> one of the most powerful members of the senate may face a probe by the chambers ethics committee. it wants to know more about trip that is robert menendez took to the dominican republic as a guest as one of its biggest donors. the donor's florida offices were raided by the fbi. susan candiotti is following developments for us. >> randi, we have now learned more on this week's fbi raid on the offices of one of senator menendez's big campaign supporters. the fbi's interest in florida eye doctor did not begin this week. what scrambled agents to obtain a search warrant, in part, was when a shredding truck showed up at the doctor's office, a law enforcement source tells cnn. the fbi has not commented on why it removed