Administered this week outnumbers new cases of covid 101. But thats not to say that serious struggles do not remain. Getting schools reopened remains a significant logistical and political challenge. Vaccinations still need to ramp up. The spread is not yet under control, and more as cnns lucy kavanaugh reports. Reporter the fight against covid19 progressing on three fronts today, more shots, more sites and more vaccines heading towards approval. New yorks mega Vaccination Site opening up at Yankee Stadium this morning. I was in and out, two seconds. In maryland, the Back Parking Lot at six flags now a mass vaccination center. The idea eventually is to build an infrastructure that can handle millions of vaccines. Reporter and in northern california, oaklands coliseum and levi stadium now vaccination hubs. American troops joining the fight against covid, the Biden Administration announced it will deploy 1,000 Service Members across the country to help with vaccination efforts. This, as
244,000 people seeking unemployment insurance last week. as americans struggle with the rising costs of everyday goods. new details about former president trump allegedly trying to call a witness involved in the january 6th committee s investigation. we begin this morning with what appears to be a stark difference between the president of the united states and israel over how to deal with iran. during a joint news conference with israeli s prime minister in jerusalem, president biden defended his efforts to restart an international agreement aimed at preventing iran from building a nuclear weapon. this is a vital security to both israel and the united states. and i would add for the rest of the world as well. i continue to believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve this outcome. and we ll continue to work with israel to counter other threats from iran throughout the region. but the israeli leader said diplomacy will not work and that the international community
surveillance video of the actual fbi search of his home. now, in a separate case, moments ago, allen weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of trump s family business, he pleaded guilty to a 15-year tax fraud scheme. we ll have more on that in just a moment. let s begin with katelyn polantz. katelyn, set the scene for us here. reporter: this afternoon, kate, we re going to be listening for justice department prosecutors and how much they re willing to say about this ongoing investigation into the handling of classified material, potentially kept at mar-a-lago after the trump presidency. it is going to be about this affidavit, but this say court hearing over secrecy. the justice department says that this is a serious ongoing criminal investigation. it implicates highly classified materials, and that they need protections of confidentiality to keep their investigation going, to keep doing the work that they need to do to decide whether there should be a charge here.
so there is a lot of negotiations taking place. and i think there is a push back and forth that will continue to take place but my hope is that we do end up to an agreement because an agreement prevents iran from having a nuclear weapon, gives us eyes into the nuclear program that we would not have and we have not had since we moved out of the program. so the program provides being part of the agreement, provides us an opportunity to take the timeline further out, and understand what they are and are not doing. it is not perfect. i don t expect to have a perfect agreement, the original jcpoa was not perfect. but the purpose is iran cannot have a nuclear weapon under any circumstance. also seeing iran is floating an idea of a prisoner swap as part of a deal. there are a handful of americans being held, wrongfully detained in iran right now. one is ahmad sargi.
tehran from developing a nuclear weapon. you saw this morning with the israelis had to say. how do you see that? yeah, you always want diplomacy. diplomacy is less expensive and the best way to resolve an issue. and i think president biden, as president barack obama and vice president biden did, in trying to pursue a diplomatic agreement so that we can have a better accord and prevent the whole idea is to prevent iran from having a nuclear weapon. that s what the original jcpoa was. that s what we re negotiating now. so, you try to do the diplomacy first. but the president was also clear. we cannot allow iran to have a nuclear weapon. they have a chance to read to be a part of the agreement that donald trump pulled out of, but we ve got to give diplomacy a chance first. but has time run out or is there still time to achieve