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Dramatic rise in the death toll. why? >> it is a central question in a host of questions, jon. the government was trying to get answers to all of these questions when they commissioned george washington university to do this study, and what they found is startling. lets break it down. the government now recognizes that 2,975 people died in this storm. 46 times higher than the initial death toll of 64. and this report analyzed deaths in puerto rico from when hurricane maria hit, in september of 2...

Dramatic rise in the death toll. why? >> it is a central question in a host of questions, jon. the government was trying to get answers to all of these questions when they commissioned george washington university to do this study, and what they found is startling. lets break it down. the government now recognizes that 2,975 people died in this storm. 46 times higher than the initial death toll of 64. and this report analyzed deaths in puerto rico from when hurricane maria hit, in september of 2...

It turns out these skeptics were right. puerto rico has officially adjusted the death toll due from hurricane maria to 2,975. gw researchers analyzed deaths from when hurricane maria made landfall september of 2017, to february 2018, five months into the aftermath. researchers found the discrepancy mainly due to incomplete death certificates that did not mark the hurricane as the cause of death. the initial death toll included direct deaths from the storm like from flooding. it did not include d...

Discrepancy for minority versus nonminority changes. and this was before a lot of changes. i do want to note one thing though. asian latinos are a diverse population and we know from polling that asian americans in general at about 70% support affirmative act. however when we break it down into individual category, chinese americans are slightly less in favor. something closer to 40%. so interesting to see that there is a discrepancy. >> andblatbl baits where they want to stop of a firm 2differe...

A tear google account theres a discrepancy between what people can understand and what companies are doing and i think the perfect example is you express your choice that you were when the extra way and when for the preferences and decided you dont want your patient your patient to be tracked and a company is still tracking you google has made some adjustments but not as anticipated. they have changed their language around what the setting does and says indeed you are being tracked your location...

The death toll could have been so much worse. >> 16 versus literally thousands of people. you can be very proud. >> reporter: but now a new study puts the fatalities closer to 3,000. the white house is demanding full accountability for the discrepancy and the mayor of san juan, a trump critic, has assailed his premature celebration. >> the trump administration killed puerto ricans. they led us to believe that they were helping when they werent up to par. >> reporter: yet still daitoday >> we did...

Discrepancy in these totals. >> reporter: hi there, chris, good morning. yes, this report collisioned by the puerto rican government. but its an independent study from george washington university estimates that between september and february of last year, there were an estimated 2,975 deaths here in puerto rico in hurricane marias aftermath. that is dramatically higher than the governments previous count of just 64. why the discrepancy? for such a long time now there has been question about how...

Washington university seems to confirm what many people here on the island already knew, that the death toll here in puerto rico was much, much higher than what the government initially let on. the initial official count was 64. that stayed current for so many months and now george washington university estimates that almost 3,000 people, 2,975 people died in the aftermath of hurricane maria. the report also found that there was a communications breakdown here in the island among government offi...

New analysis finds a number of lives lost because of hurricane maria in puerto rico has far exceeded the official count and now some are wondering if maria is trumps katrina. the original government estimate was 64 people. back in may a harvard study found 4,645 deaths could be attributed to the hurricane. researchers used data taken between september to december of last year. now a new george washington university report is estimating an actual death toll of 2,975. its all kind of confusing. th...

A tear google account theres a discrepancy between what people can understand and what companies are doing and i think the perfect example is you express your choice that you were when the extra way and went through the preferences and decided you dont want your cation your creation to be tracked and a company still tracking you google has made some adjustments but not as anticipated. they have changed their language around what the setting does and says indeed you are being tracked your locatio...