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plagiarism? what we are learning today from harvard insiders. plus, the deadly airport runway inferno. two lanes collide, five on one jet nearly killed, 400 escaped alive. how did the planes and up on the runway in the first place? and the senior member of hamas assassinated at an explosion in beirut. is the situation in the middle east about to get even worse? happy new year, and welcome to the lead. im jake tapper, and we start out with raking news. harvard universitys claudine gay i...

right now on "ana cabrera reports," hundreds of desperate civilians waiting at gazas border. crowds gathering as that crossing is open again today, weve learned 370 trapped americans are on the list to evacuate. how soon could they get out? and an update on the aid getting in. meanwhile, here at home, tensions boiling over, thousands protest outside the presidents speech in minnesota while inside one protester interrupts his remarks. >> mr. president, do you care about jewish peopl...

This comes in the context of building tensions on the border. we have seen israel carrying out airstrikes on lebanese villages on the southern border region. we have seen civilians killed as well, as well as journalists. they been targeting israeli positions and we are expecting to achieve that with hezbollah tomorrow. we will see what he has to say about this latest incident. >> as we enter this new year, civilians in gaza, millions, are struggling to survive under the intense israeli bombardme...

Dedeserves. >> reporter: people here say the feeling is mutual and that putin doesnt respect the west much either anymore at point after years of of building tensions as speculation builds about the end game here. people ive spoken to in moscow say the russian president is, in fact, obsessed with nato expanding and has reached breaking point over it moving even an a inch further east. in some of the lines coming out of here, eric, are that ukraine has been overrun by nazis that ethnic russians a...

Rise with it are something that the kremlin can exploit. the ball is essentially in president putins court at the moment because hes waiting for those written responses from the united states and nato. so at the moment it really -- the sense here is that the kremlin is pushing the blame on ukrainian authorities for building tensions in the east of the country. >> were waiting to see what those written responses include and whether it meets any really of the guarantees that russia was seeking. ni...

Two of these churches home to african emamerican organization. brian todd joins me now. brian, is this church fire being investigated as a hate crime? >> reporter: jake were here outside the church in greeleyville south carolina. we got a shot of the charred walls, really all thats left of the structure is the brick foundation following the tuesday night fire. we can tell you a short time ago, atf officials say their canine teams went in looking for signs of acsell rants. fbi investigators belie...

Be no extradition according to some of these reports coming in from ap. well see what our president has to say in response to that. bill: the u.s. and japanese military teaming up for a major show of force. adam housley has more. >> reporter: a lot of americans may not realize that building tensions in the pacific, some people will argue are the highest since world war 2 are. there are 24 japanese media outlets that have come here as the japanese have come in force to the west coast to so there ...