of patients in critical condition and the medical system remains strained, despite the fact that tokyo and several other prefectures have been under a state of emergency since april and there is talk that prime minister suga will extend that state of emergency for an additional three weeks until june 20th, just about a month before the olympics are set to take place. >> blake essig in tokyo. appreciate it. the u.s. intelligence community has been tasked with finding the origin of covid-19 over the next 90 days. now "the new york times" reports that those same intelligence officials recently informed the white house that they are sitting on data that could help pinpoint the answer but needs more robust computer analysis. continues on covid's origin are currently split. some intelligence analysts think people might have caught the virus from handling infected animals, but other agencies suspect the novel coronavirus began in a lab and got out. china angrily rejects that view and insists the virus originated