john: fox news alert, harvard university president claudine gay stepping down, marking an end to the shortest presidency in the university s storied history, plagiarism accusations as well as antisemitism on the campus. gillian: busy breaking news hour, so far. i m gillian turner in for sandra smith. so claudine gay confirming the news in the email, she has been mired in scandals, including 50 plagiarism accusations and doubts about her ability to protect jewish students on campus in the wake of october 7th. molly line is live in boston with more details. what can you tell us? her inauguration was in late september and calls for her resignation since october. today harvard president claudine gay making it offering, saying in an email to the university community she made the decision with a heavy heart but adding it s in the best interest of harvard for her to resign, bedrock values to who i am frightening with attacks. and following the attacks on israel and in december
after the first earthquake struck. surviving the earthquake, that s the first hurdle. what will their lives be like in the coming months and years, as a result of the destruction we see here today? in other news, us fighterjets shoot down an unidentified aircraft over alaska after president biden gave the order to seek and destroy . troops are trying to salvage the wreckage. celebrating uk music indie band wet leg and singer harry styles lead the way with four nominations each for tonight s brit awards. # on the chaise longue.# hello and welcome. rescuers in turkey and syria are increasingly focusing efforts on the survivors of monday s earthquakes who are enduring the aftermath in the cold of winter. the united nations says about 900,000 people urgently need hot meals on both sides of the border, and more than 1 million are homeless. these are live pictures from southern turkey. the number of deaths has now passed 24,000, but small numbers of victims continue to be pulled
interest rates have gone up by three quarters of a percentage point, the biggest increase for more than 30 years. it pushes the base rate up to 3%, as the bank of england tries to control inflation. it s the eighth rise in a row, meaning higher mortgage bills for many homeowners. meanwhile the bank has also warned the uk could be on course for its longest recession since reliable records began, over a century ago. our economics correspondent, andy verity, reports. it is the biggest interest rate rise in a third of a century. the cost of living has been rising at its fastest rate for a0 years for global reasons but the bank of england is trying to prevent runaway inflation from becoming embedded in the domestic economy. these are big changes, they have a real impact on people s lives, so why are we doing it? and why are we doing it now when so many people are already struggling with higher energy and food prices and other bills? quite simply we are increasing the bank rate bec
under scrutiny. the past 24 hours have been a doozy. it was yesterday evening when thedo former president, donald trump, put out a rambling, chest pounding, feet stomping statement announcing to the world that the fbi had raided his words his florida home. so-called law and order president called it a witch hunt and gave a shoutout to hillary clinton about her emails. he cldid, however, let the worl know a fascinating detail that the fbi got into his safe as part of their search. so let s take a step back now. it s been 24 hours. acknowledge the seriousness of what happened yesterday. justice department officials didn t just wake up yesterday and usdecide, hey, let s send se federal agents to search the immediate past president s home because we think a crime was committed there. what this hour s long search on trump s homeur means is that la enforcement had to convince a federal judge that there was probable cause that a crime was committed there. federal prosecutors had to
Night. Israels Ground Operations have now expanded. We have large explosions, arti artillery, tank fire, and possible Bunker Buster Bombs heard and seen all night long as the idf has now confirmed the expansion of operations, in other words, the Ground Incursion into gaza has now officially begun. Heres a description of how things went on earlier tonight, just how this all got started from trey yingst. Clearly something is happening. We cite the israeli military, they say theyre having ground raids into gaza. Dont want to speculate or call it what it could be, we need to wait and be patient. This is unlike any other night we covered. We have been here the past 20 days as it unfolds. This is a significant development. Also to give you a sense of the phases here, this is indicative of what we expected to come next. Israel told us they would be ramping up strikes against gaza before entering on the ground, this is the next phase of the war. At this moment, i cannot confirm the Ground Oper