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Jillian: a night for primary politics, trump candidate and bernie sanders candidates, mayor andrew gillam prevailing over gwen graham, endorsed by bernie sanders, gillam will face ron desantis, the republican congressman defeating adam putnam and a short while ago the fox news decision disc projected arizona congresswoman martha mc sally got the nod to run for jeff flake's seat. he will face off against democrat congresswoman kristin cinema. in response, governors raising the death toll in 6 month following hurricane maria from 64 to 2975 people. researchers say the poor and elderly were hit e...

George washington university basically confirmed what many here in puerto rico had known for a very long time. that the government count of just 64 dead from this hurricane just wasn't enough, and instead now governor ricardo updated the figure following the release of this report to 2,975 estimated deaths making hurricane maria the deadliest u.s. natural disaster in more than 100 years. we spoke with several families that talked how the weeks and months following the storm their loved ones were trapped without power and that is some of the things that this study took into account. here is kat...

As of this moment? >> 16. >> 16 people versus in the thousands you can be very proud of all of your people, all of our people working together. 16 versus literally thousands of people. everybody around this table and everybody watching can be very proud of what has taken place in puerto rico. >> it's important to remember, it was obviously a world ending tragedy for the families of the 16 or 17 people who died. according to the president, a death toll in the thousands would be shameful, he said. we now know that 2,975 people died on that american island following hurricane maria. plus, the pre...

Of the people here on the island and also in the u.s. mainland who said they lost close family members in the weeks and months after the storm. this wasn't a situation where there were so many deaths during the actual storm, structural collapses or drowning during the flooding. this was a slow-moving disaster because power was gone for so long. there was no access to medical care. that's where many of these deaths happened. as you mentioned, the biggest risk were those low-income communities and the elderly. so certainly devastating news here in puerto rico, but it's something that many people...

Maria from 64 to 2,975 people. san juan's mayor was one of president trump's loudest critics in the wake of maria hitting puerto rico. today she had this to say to the president. >> all he had to say is i'm sorry. that 2,975 of you died. that's all he had to say. but he's incapable of doing that. anything that comes out of the president's mouth that does not begin with i am sorry that those people died even as a simple act of being in tune with what we're feeling is totally neglectful and totally off the grid. i mean the man does not have a clue. >> and that's our broadcast for tonight. thank ...