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Everywhere else in the nation. >> it seems a massive failure of the governments ability on the island to actually account for the deaths. the survey was done for $50,000. they had researchers from harvard and universities in puerto rico go around and interview households and ask them about who has died in their family, things like that. youve s you say you welcome the survey. according to researchers officials from your government refused to provide them basic data. they refused to give mortalit...

The governments ability on the island to actually account for the deaths. the survey was done for $50,000. they had researchers from harvard and universities in puerto rico go around and interview households and ask them about who has died in their family, things like that. you say you welcome the survey. according to researchers officials from your government refused to provide them basic data. they refused to give mortality statistics. why is that? >> well, i -- you know, im shocked to hear th...

Thats actually why george washington has taken a little longer time than expected. we expected to have a phase one analysis here by may 22nd. of course, data has been hard to come by with respect to that and what we want to do is land on the most concrete accurate numbers so we can assess what really happened. >> i know you expressed surprise and concern that officials didnt cooperate with the study. is that something you want to look into? if transparency is your stated goal, it doesnt seem tra...

Best process. the best data was not available. thats actually why george washington has taken a little longer time than expected. we expected to have a phase one analysis here by may 22nd. of course, data has been hard to come by with respect to that and what we want to do is land on the most concrete accurate numbers so we can assess what really happened. >> i know you expressed surprise and concern that officials didnt cooperate with the study. is that something you want to look into? if trans...

That the puerto rican government actually does count secondary deaths. by secondary deaths, i mean that you waited all day in your house for an ambulance and you didnt make it. so thats considered attributed to the hurricane if the ambulance, for example, couldnt get there because the road was blocked or because there was no fuel. so taking into account that the puerto rican government does consider that a hurricane related death, theyve been kind of -- i dont even know what the word is -- stubb...

>> explain why that is, because that was the one thing i wanted to get to before we have to go to break here, the number of deaths going underreported on the island. what is factoring into that? >> the official number of hurricane-related deaths in puerto rico stands at 64. and that includes both people that, lets say got trapped in mudslides and also people that committed suicide. so what happened? when you look at the mortality statistics in puerto rico, on the 20th of september, the deaths sh...