states of course the situation in california and in new york is very different from a state like brosco so president trump said he doesn't see the necessity of a nationwide lockdown as of now and he leaves those decisions up to the state governors and mayors to find individual answers to their local situation and that's exactly what's happening right now so the state of illinois has followed suit with the city of chicago california yesterday new jersey 6 is expected to announce a lockdown within the next 24 hours our correspondent there in washington all of a salad thank you all have. easily registered the deaths of 627 people from the corona virus on friday now this is the highest daily death toll in the country's full week epidemic is least now the world's worst affected country with more than 4000 people losing their lives. doctors stretched to the limit. patients gasping for air keep arriving but there aren't enough beds most of the really sick here and better gamo are elderly but medics warn young people they too are vulnerable. 50 percent of our patients in the i.c.u. which are th