Charge for allegedly jumping on the cars hood. And its the tigers versus the tigers. College football crowns its champion tonight in new orleans. Lsu is looking for its first title since 2007. Meanwhile, clemson wants to go backtoback and win its third championship in four years. That hurts this gamecock from the great state of South Carolina. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, january 13th. From abc news, this is world news now. Good morning, everyone. We begin with half hour with the growing tenses inside of iran. Thousands of protesters clashing with police as they rally against their government. Yeah, the demonstrations continued even after the head of the revolutionary guard apologized for the downing of a passenger jet with mostly iranians on board, calling it a tragic mistake. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has more. Reporter protesters taking to the streets in iran shouting antigovernment slogans following the iranian militarys admission that it accidentally shot down that
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