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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. i'm jake tapper, and we start out with raking news. harvard university's claudine gay is stepping down as president, resigning after just about six months on the job. the student journa...

right now on "ana cabrera reports," hundreds of desperate civilians waiting at gaza's border. crowds gathering as that crossing is open again today, we've 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 president's speech in minnesota while inside one protester interrupts his remarks. >> mr. president, do you care about jewish people? as a rabbi, i need you to call for a cease fire right now. plus, any moment now, we will hav...

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 bombardment of hamas, and of course, this tragic lack of humanitarian aid getting through. starvation, diseas...

Dedeserves. >> reporter: people here say the feeling is mutual and that putin doesn't respect the west much either anymore at point after years of of building tensions as speculation builds about the end game here. people i've 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 and russian speakers there are not safe and that, basically, it is being used as a tool by the west...

Rise with it are something that the kremlin can exploit. the ball is essentially in president putin's court at the moment because he's 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. >> we're waiting to see what those written responses include and whether it meets any really of the guarantees that russia was seeking. nic robertson in moscow. thanks very much, nic. the possible invasion of ukraine and the federal ...