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Reporter where the victims of this bus attack are. We know that now 22 people have been injured. Some of those were inside the bus, some of the people were outside of the bus. There are two very serious injuries, both of them teenagers according to hospital officials here and they are doing surgery as we speak. What we dough do know is that so far doctors are saying that all the victims are expected to survive and the blast basically blew out all the windows in the bus about you dbut did not comp destroy the bus. Certainly a terrible, terrible scare to the people here. And a lot of fear this is the beginning of something worse to come. You just talked about, in fact, hamas has praised this particular blast but has not taken responsibility. Police basically are saying they have not been able to get a suspect yet. They are sending out all of their equipment and people to try to find out who is responsible for this. And, as we said, they do not for sure think this was somebody who blew themselves up on the bus but instead a device was placed on the bus and that is what exploded, carol. As far as the injuries, sara, how many people suffered serious injuries . Are any life threatening . Reporter no, there are no lifethreatening injuries. But there are two serious injuries. Someone has gone in, for example, to shoulder surgery. Im not sure what the extent of the other injuries are. We know there are three serious injuries according to the police and the hospital officials where we are right now. Were in the hospital watching the emergency workers do their jobs. Sara sidner from tel aviv, israel, this morning. Secretary the white house and secretary clinton are condemning that bus attack saying these attacks against innocent Israeli Citizens are outrageous, but there seems to be no end in sight to this conflict. The ambassador to the United States, michael oren. Good morning, carol. Good to be with you. Is this one different . Its all part of the same hamas and terrorist plan to kill the maximum number of israeli civili civilians. Thats what this conflict is about. There was no fighting. Iz r israeli civilians were hit by 600 rockets over the course of one month and israel felt it had no choice but to defend itself. On one hand were doing our best, taking super human efforts to minimize palestinian civilian casualties. Its difficult. Were fighting terrorists who are deeply embedded in the civilian population, using them as human shields. If we hurt a palestinian civilian we look at it as a failure. If they wound or kill an israeli citizen, they celebrate. Right now supporters of hamas are giving out candy to kids in the street, celebrating that bus bombing in tel aviv. Do all the people in the gaza strip react in that way . I dont know. We dont have polls about opinion in gaza. Hamas is the de facto government in the gaza strip. We are trying to aim at hamas, trying to get at the terrorists without hurting civilians. Its not easy. Hamas not only has a military strategy of trying to kill israeli civilians but a media strategy. They want to put their terrorists behind their civil yasians so if their civilians get hurt they can make a big splash on the news about it. Its not just a military strategy, its a media strategy. We will take whatever means are necessary and legitimate to defend our citizens, carol. The iron dome, israels Missile Defense system is working phenomenally. Many of its rockets, because of this iron dome, are not hitting their targets. Could we see more attacks on the streets by terrorists, like in this bus attack . Thats true, iron dome is an amazing success story, first antirocket device in history to actually work in warfare. Weve taken down about 90 of the terrorist rockets that would have hit in our cities. Theyre going to hit outside the cities. And, yes, the terrorists will try anything to get at our civili civilians. Weve seen it before. Many, many bus bombings like this. Weve all lost friends. Ive lost a close Family Member in those bus bombings. Theyre very, very close for us. Do activievents like this complicate secretary Hillary Clintons efforts . They certainly dont help. Where terrorists in gaza cannot open fire on us every week and paralyze half the country when they will. Also the goal is to prevent iran from smuggling advanced weaponry and rockets into gaza that the terrorists then fire at our civilian. Israeli ambassador to the United States, michael oren, thank you for joining us this morning. We appreciate it. Thank you for having me. More on secretary of state Hillary Clintons trip to the middle east today. She met with israel leader Benjamin Netanyahu and earlier she met with palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and she is set to sit down with egyptian president Mohamed Morsi. No claim of responsibility on that bus explosion yet but word is that hamas has blessed the attacks. We go to ben wedeman for more on that. Reporter what we heard from a nearby mosque is an announcement saying that, quote, unquote, lions from the west bank had carried out that attack in tel aviv. There was also the suggestion in that announcement from the mosque that hamas was somehow responsible for that attack. However, the television affiliated with the Hamas Movement said yes, they did bless that attack but said it was a, quote, unquote, natural reaction to israels offensive against the gaza strip. So, there has been no claim of responsibility by hamas or by anybody else at this point regarding that attack. Now there was some scattered celebratory gunfire in gaza after news of the attack in tel aviv. Im not aware of anybody handing out candy. Its important to stress that not everybody supports hamas in the gaza strip. And there are many people who are unhappy with the situation, unhappy with hamas firing rockets into israel. But very unhappy about israels response. And its important to keep in mind that this is a conflict that goes back many years. Theres a lot to it. Much more to it than the events of the last eight days. So theres a feeling here that the attack is not going to help gaza at all. Theres a profound worry weve seen it played out on the streets, which are pretty empty at the moment, that israel could respond drastically with, for instance, a Ground Invasion into gaza in the wake of this attack in tel aviv. Carol . Ben wedeman, reporting live for us this morning. People in israel are living in fear that a rocket could strike at any moment, hit its target while theyre eating their breakfast or walking their dogs. [ bleep ]. In about ten minutes, well talk to the woman who took this video and hear how shes trying to stay safe. 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They were angry when mayor cory booker cast the deciding vote to fill a Vacant Council seat with one of his longterm allies. One man was arrested on assault and other charges. Two people are being questioned by Police Following an explosion in indianapolis earlier this month. The blast killed two people and destroyed dozens of homes. The case is now being investigated as a criminal homicide. Joining us live now from indianapolis, thank you for joining us. Good morning. You brought in two people for questioning. Whats their status . As we said on monday we have had interviews and execution of search warrants since day one. And there were additional interviews yesterday and additional search warrants served. Youre just questioning people that might be involved in the case but no suspects at this time . Not that we can speak to at this time. Thats correct. Do you have a theory in exactly how this crime went down . Well, other than the fact that clearly, as we indicated on monday, an accidental cause of the explosion has been ruled out and at this point we obviously believe its an intentional act. Beyond that, we really cant speak to what we believe caused the explosion. How do you Something Like that . I have read many different reports, you opened up a gas pipe outside or inside the home and then maybe someone ignites it using some sort of device outside the home. Is that what you think . Well, at this point, i cant be specific about what we think caused the explosion. Clearly our investigators are nearing the cause but it would be inappropriate to talk about that publicly at this time. Do you think the one house was targeted and the other homes were accidental collateral damage, if you will . What we can say is youre exactly right. Clearly the explosion was centered in the one residents and all the additional homes were damaged in the explosion. The house that was targeted was empty at the time. Any theories as to a motive . We certainly have theories at this point in time. Aga again, we cant speak to that publicly. Why might someone do this . Im not going to speculate at this time as to why someone would do that. Clearly theres any number of reasons. As part of the investigation, we dont want to disclose too much detail because as individuals come forward we want to know that were hearing based upon their personal knowledge not what they heard in the press. The family that owns the house, they werent home at the time. Are they suspects . I cant speak to who might be a suspect at this time. But youre still questioning them . Interviews have been conducted by a number of people, including the individuals that were residing in that home. Thats correct. Have you ever dealt with a case like this before . Not of this magnitude, in the sense that obviously we have a much more significant crime scene that needs to be processed and that is still an ongoing process. Its a painstaking process. And were clearly not going to do anything too hasty. I was just going to say, it must be challenging just to find the evidence. How did you figure out that it wasnt accidental in the first place . The combination of our arson investigators, representatives of citizens gas and federal, alcohol, tobacco investigators, were all knowledgeable in this area, and ruled out any accidental cause for this explosion. Terry curry, the process court for the county in indiana, thank you. We appreciate it. Thank you. Youre not safe even when you walk your dog in israel. A rocket could strike at any time. We talk to a woman who finds herself dodging for cover on a daily basis. This december, rem you can stay in and like something. Or you can get out there and actually like something. 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She shot this video as she took cover. [ bleep ]. You can hear those explosions in the distance, right . She is a teacher in israel, lives about a mile from the gaza border. Even though classes are canceled and the children have been evacuated, she has chosen to stay home to take care of her dogs. She joins us now via skype. Good morning. Good morning. I guess its afternoon there. So good afternoon. Before we get to your personal story, im sure youve heard by now about the bus attack in tel aviv. I just wanted to get your thoughts on that. Not very surprised. It was you know, they were threatening that that was going to happen. They were promising that that was going to happen. And it finally d i actually know exactly where it happened also because its right on the corner of where i did my medical training. Do you fear that those kinds of attacks are going to happen in your neighborhood, too . Like buses blowing up . Or Something Like that. No, no, no. No, that wouldnt happen here. We just get the rockets and mortars. Thats enough. Thank you. I think thats probably true. Tell us about how you stay safe. How i stay safe. I have a safe room. And any time theres an alarm, i run to the safe room. It is within my house. We have only about ten seconds to get there. So at this period of time, im actually sleeping there. Its not my bedroom. Its my guest room. But im sleeping there for now. And, i mean, as you can see from the video, the footage that i shot, that was just i just had the camera running when i was walking the dogs and i had this feeling i dont know, this instinct that caused me to walk right next to a building so that i knew if something was going to fall i would be able to take cover. What you dont see in the footage is how i ran up to the building and i tried to open the door. But thats a childrens house and there were no children here now so it was locked. And i couldnt get in. So its pretty scary. Its scary walking around. I was giving an interview to a report in cypress this afternoon this morning. As i was walking, there was that alarm. And during the interview, as i was doing the interview, i was running to scrunch up next to the wall. So some people might think, why are you staying there . Why havent you evacuated . This is my home. I live here. We want you to stay safe, though. You have to carry your cell phone at all times. Tell us why. Well, the cell phone is a tool. And through the cell phone, we get announcements about either that we have 15 seconds, that we should be 15 seconds from within a safe room or, as we got a few hours ago, that stop everything. Go into your safe rooms immediately. So i would be doing this in my safe room where i dont really have very good internet connection. Half an hour ago, they released us. You know, our phones are our lifelines now. Wow youre not the only one who has chosen to stay, because other people feel as you do. This is my home. Why should i be driven out. You had a great story about being in a yoga class. Did the air raid sirens go off . No. We got a text message on the phone. Usually when i do yoga, my phone is off to the side and turned off. But this day, i happened to be waiting for my son, who was in the army. And i thought i might have to go get him. It was on the mat next to me. All of a sudden i saw a message that everybody in the area is supposed to be going to their safe rooms. And so i brought it over to my teacher, my yoga teacher, and showed it to her. She responsibly announced to everybody, okay, this is the message were getting. Im staying and continuing the class. Anybody that wants to can go to the safe room. And we finished our yoga. I know when you added somebody preinterviewed you and told me you added if something fell on top of us, at least we would be in a peaceful state. Its like, you have such a good attitude about this. This must have been going on for days and days. Well, this was before the war starte started. Since the war started everything is closed. Our little store is closed. The dining room its a communal settlement its closed. That happened in regular times. This is how we live. This, for the past ten years, this is how we live. Constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop. I never really appreciated that saying so much as when until i was in this situation. Until we had this situation. Thats what its like here. We admire your courage. Thank you so much for sharing your story with us this morning. We appreciate it. Thank you for taking the time and telling the story, letting me tell the story. Any time. Adele, thank you. If anybody wants to read about it i have a Facebook Group we opened in the area where we describe what its like, living in the shadow of the rockets. Great. We will search your name on facebook and find t thank you so much, adele raemer, for talking with us this morning. 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