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What are you learning? >> really, a change of tone. not just a development, hearing the governor of puerto rico saying look, we acknowledge there is a need for investigation. we acknowledge that the number could be higher than what the official death toll is. there is a need for a thorough investigation to find out exactly how many people die as a result of hurricane maria. directly or indirectly. as you mentioned. we did an investigation, we called 279 funeral homes, reached half of them, and those up if ral directors reported to us -- funeral directors reported 499 deaths. other media outlet...

Called 279 funeral homes, we reached half of them, they told us they reported the funeral directors reported 499 deaths. at a time when the death toll was only 55. since then, multiple media outlets have questioned the death toll and gotten numbers that are higher than what is being reported out of puerto rico, after hurricane maria. >> why wouldn't they acknowledge the actual number of people who were killed. what's the down side to saying hundreds of people were killed in that hurricane as opposed to 60 or 70? >> well, certainly, that's the point that the government brings up, they say, look...

Surrounding his death. over the same month last year, the number of deaths in puerto rico increased by 472. the government is reporting 55 people died at the hands of hurricane maria. this is puerto rico's secretary of public safety in charge of the death count. >> it appears for whatever reason that the death toll is much higher than what has been reported. >> reporter: politicians, news outlets, like cnn, have raised questions about the accuracy of those numbers. so we decided to count for ourselves. cnn called 279 funeral homes. we were only able to reach about half of them. we asked how ma...

Have come to ask questions about the cause or situation surrounding his death. >> reporter: over the same month last year, the number of deathing in puerto rico increased by 472. the government is reporting 55 people died at the hands of hurricane maria. >> it's accurate based on the factual information that we received, yes. >> reporter: this is puerto rico's public safety in charge of the death count. >> it appears for whatever reason the death toll is much higher than what has been reported. >> reporter: politicians, news outlets like cnn have raised accuracy about the numbers. we decided t...

Rico increased by 472. the government is reporting 55 people died at the hands of hurricane maria. >> it's accurate based on the factual information that we received, yes. >> reporter: this is puerto rico's secretary of public safety in charge of the death count. it appears for whatever reason that the death toll is much higher than what has been reported. politicians, news outlets like cnn, have raised questions about the accuracy of those numbers. so we decided to count for ourselves. cnn called 279 funeral homes. we were only able to reach about half of them. we asked, how many of the death...