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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 trump's 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. it's all kind of confusing. this one was conducted from september 2017 to february of this year. this study was commissioned b e...

Stay with their families until their 40's. right now, the governor of puerto rico is holding a news conference, reacting to the study released by george washington university, that puts the number of storm related deaths from hurricane maria to nearly 3,000. that is a far cry from the toll, 64, the government's toll. it was your reporting from cnn team that led to some of these new investigations and i understand the governor announced he will now change that official number. >> right. so, when we run that graphic, we are going to be able so say official toll, 2,975. it will no longer say 64...

Will the government of puerto rico now take this study, now take this number and make it the official death toll? i have reached out to the government. several hours now waiting on their response. they have not given that. i want to make clear exactly what this is. again, 2,975 is what they believe is the excess in deaths over what they believe would be average at this point had hurricane maria not gone by puerto rico, not destroyed puerto rico. but this is not a list of nearly 3,000 deaths that they have causes for that they believe to be hurricane maria related. so for many of the families w...

Toll, but it should be 2,975. i mean, that is huge compared to 64 where we were when we woke up this morning. >> a figure similar to 9/11. it's the figure that stood out to me. we remember president trump, at the time of this, praised the low death toll, something of a success. did the study address that contradiction at all? >> it does. the researcher spoke with mayors, first responders, folks on the ground after this happened. they seemed to be expressing frustration with that statement in which president trump talks about the 16 deaths at the time. now, within hours of him leaving, that wen...

Hundreds of days overdo. puerto rico's first death toll was 64 last hour. now the official death toll is 2,975. following the new study, it's now official from the state of puerto rico. 2,975 people died in that storm and in its aftermath and in a place where for 11 months the entire island had not been returned to full electricity. puerto rico deserved better. should news break out, we'll break in. breaking news changes everything on fox news channel. "your world" with neil cavuto is coming up in just a few minutes on the network that america trusts for information and news on america's cable...