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Click on tap now to shop at M&M. This is CNN breaking news. And we want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Wolf Blitzer in the situation room.

We're standing by for a briefing from the coronavirus task force where President Trump is expected

to reveal those new social distancing guidelines based on very dire

models forecasting perhaps as many as 200,000 deaths here in the United States.

U.S. officials reported more than 770 new deaths just today, the deadliest of the outbreak so far.

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