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Benefits, and increasing social equality in classrooms are all at play. strikes already disrupted the first day of school in two southwest washington districts tuesday. at least four more districts will join the picket line today. a spokesperson for the seattle school district says they're making good progress and remain optimistic school will begin on time. a wayward military mine that was found in puget sound has been safely detonated. navy personnel disposed of the device in the waters between keyport and bainbridge island, washington. officials say the detonation did not create a seconda...

It went from 64 people to 2975. it changed after a report done by george washington university. leyla santiago is joining us now. she was there when it hit. how did this happen in how is it so starkly different? >> that is something that we have been asking for a long time. how was the number 64 when we ourselves saw how devastating this ong, how long-term the impacts and the conditions were with no power and no access to health care. since november, many brought it to light, they did a study on this, there was over investigations and news outlets,

It has been a big night of breaking news already. here is more. new figures for the cost in human lives of hurricane maria on the island of puerto rico, and these numbers are shocking. until today, the official death toll stood at 64. now the governor says the official number is almost 3,000. 2,975 americans killed. cnn's leyla santiago was really one of the first reporters to do extensive on the ground reporting in the aftermath of maria and investigated the early death toll numbers. leyla, i understand the new numbers come from george washington university, a study out of there. what else ar...

About 45% of the cases are among young women and girls aged 15 to 24. public health experts note there's been a serious decline in resources for the cdc's division of std prevention. the budget has shrunk 40% in the past 15 years. puerto rico revising the death toll from hurricane maria to 2,975. that is 46 times higher than the previous official figure from the puerto rican government. it comes on the same day researchers from george washington university revealed the findings of a study on storm-related deaths between september 2017 and february of this year. puerto rico's governor signed ...

Rico, 2975, katrina 1833, and then sandy, 147, harvey 68. this is so much higher. >> and you think back to hurricane katrina and how disastrous that was and the degree of the political challenge that posed for president bush at the time. everyone expected that they would have their hands around that problem and it was so woefully inadequate and how president bush took it upon himself to at first he did a lot of what donald trump is doing now, a hick of a job and all of that, but then when it became clear how horrific the impact had been, that was seen as a real crisis. i don't think this admin...