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Reason, the death toll has been higher than what has been reported. news outlets have raised numbers about the accuracy of the numbers. cnn called 279 funeral homes. we were only able to reach about half of them. we asked how many of the deaths were believed to be relate to maria despite the official death toll, they claim 499 hurricane-related deaths in the month after the storm. thats nine times the governments numbers. >> why the gap? >> because thats what i said before, i work on factual. i ...

Father complained of breathing complications. when her uncle calls 911, he was told help was not available. >> no one has come to ask questions regarding the cause or the situation surrounding his death. >> reporter: over the same month last year, the number of deaths increased by 472. the government is reporting 55 people died at the hands of hurricane maria. >> its accurate based on the factual information we received, yes. >> reporter: this is puerto ricos official in charge. politicians news...

Considerably over the last two years. the pentagon say this is a war with accuracy thats unprecedented. but something thats underreported are the record number of civilian casualties. they spent 18 months working on this. one in five coalition strikes resulted in civilian death, which is a staggering 31 times higher than the rate of deaths that is actually reported by the coalition. for more on this reporting, i want to bring in one of the co-authors on this report, azma khan, and general barry ...

Its one of the reasons we decided to look into the death tolls accuracy. what we found is there are plenty of reasons to question that death toll. these are the images theyd rather remember. the ones catching him squlojoki with his family. but theres another image his daughter cant stop thinking about. the moment she opened the door and found him on the ground. she says if maria had not passed straight through here, she believes her dad would still be alive today. she believes his nerves, stress...

A revolutionary satellite into space, will help meteorologists like myself forecast hurricanes, droughts, forest fires, and also the biggest impact here is going to help us kind of hone in on our accuracy for three to seven day forecast. this is a first in the series of satellites that were launching and really incredible to be a part of that. very cool. >> that does seem cool. derek, thanks. all right. monday marks queen elizabeth and prince philips platinum anniversary. 70 years of marriage....

Backtracking and i agree there will be indictments. i think the real challenge will be when those indictments come down, is donald trump going to protect his son-in-law and others around him with a pardon or are we going to have to rely on the attorney general of new york, eric schneiderman, to pursue the truth in justice. >> okay, thank you both so much. appreciate it. still ahead, one of the former journalists to speak with christopher steele joins me next. what steele told him about the accur...

Are tribal and partisan and its easy to explain away accusations that seemed like they are coming from a person who is trying to destroy him politically. its hard for the defenders to see the accuracy of the stories and most democrats at the time of the monica lewinsky scandal specifically would argue this was a consensual sexual relationship and did not rise to the level of impeachment and the perjury and obstruction of justice that flowed from that relationship were traps by the independent co...

>> yeah, one thing in my new book thats not generally known is he did a few reports. not just the trump dossier. after 2014, which was kind of well received by u.s. intelligence and sent all the way out to john reed. what i understand from talking to his friends, the sources behind the ukraine reports were the same sources behind the dossier, in other words, their sources were right and kind of proven in other areas, his friends say. ive asked and they say he is professional. he is credible. >> ...

Him. does he defend the dossiers accuracy? >> yes, what his associates say, he believes its between 70 and 90% accurate. in other words, no intelligence document is perfect. humans are flawed. they get things wrong, sources make mistakes, this is the intelligence, and what he was trying to do is send out these questions and got hair-raising replies from his sources about collaboration between trump people and russians, some of them intelligence people and say he forwarded this to the fbi and hop...

Your assigns regarding that at&t/time warner acquisition? >> first, i would say that i dont accept and cannot accept the accuracy of that news report. we have a professional -- >> your department has not told time warner and at&t they must shed turner broadcasting? >> our work -- >> the report? >> our work is professional. they do meet -- >> that is a false report or true report? >> i just would tell you, i dont think its -- im able to accept as accurate a news report. >> i get you. >> that has ...