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 journalist who broke the story of her stepping down for the harvard crimson newspaper noted that this is the shortest presidential tenure in harvard s august history. it has been quite a tumultuous month for the now former present. when asked for calling for the genocide of would violate harvard campuses code of conduct. yes or no. it can be, depending on the context. from that, to multiple allega
story mac in our law and justice mystery and the lingering questions after a deadly new year s attack in the united states, this happened early yesterday morning outside the arena in rochester in new york state when a man try to ram an suv into a crowd, two people were killed, authorities think this could have been much worse. reporter: a fiery crash outside a new york concert hall after a car rammed into another vehicle, setting off an explosion. it was crazy to see that kind of fire, the flames were probably 15 feet high. reporter: and authorities say it appears to be intentional. we saw the carnage of the cars, and one car was burned up and car pieces everywhere. it was surreal to think wow, this happened right here.
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