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Shutdown, he died. >> if we had electricity, normal electricity at that time, he could be alive. >> reporter: nearly a year after puerto rico changed its official death toll jumping from 64 to 2,975. a number mr. trump takes issue with. tweeting 3,000 people did not die during the two hurricanes that hit puerto rico. the change in death toll came months after cnn's investigation revealed the death toll was likely nine times what the government of puerto rico was reporting. the latest death statistics reveal the latest reasons for yet another concern. this is puerto rico's 24 hour suicide hot l...

Ballpark, and that's why i have taken it upon myself to take that number, the 2,975 excess death number as the official toll in puerto rico. >> governor, to your broader point about representation of puerto ricans when it comes to voting for president and representation in congress, i know you sent a letter to the white house and you talk about congress has the power to, you know, to admit a new state. but the president has to sign the tariff to make it official. i know you haven't heard back yet on the letter, but please let us know when you do get a response from the white house. thank you, ...

Natalia rodriguez. his generator ran out of diesel in the middle of the night, the breathing machine he used shut down. he died. >> if we had normal electricity at that time, he could be alive. >> nearly a year after the hurricane, puerto rico changed its official death toll, jumping from 64 to 2,975. a number president trump takes issue with. tweeting, 3,000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hill puerto rico. the change in death toll came months after cnn's investigation reveals the death toll was likely nine times what the government of puerto rico was reporting. the latest death...

Officially certified deaths that come from the government of puerto rico. we're able to understand the net number of people on the island at any given time through migration, 8% of the people on puerto rico left the island between september 2017 and february 2018. we had to factor that in. we can look over past years, the patterns of death by season, by year, and use mathematical mo l modemode modeling to make sure we're not caught by random calculation. there's science we can apply to come with the estimate. is it exactly 2975? it's very close to that, within a fairly small margin of error. i...

Peop people. then they hired george washington. this wasn't done with previous hurricanes because other jurisdictions know how many other people killed. 50 times last original number. no way twries president. he blamed democrats for the death toll. let me just specific a little bit and let you answer directly the president's tweet. but the term excess deaths. 2975 excess deaths. what does that term mean exactly >> what that really means is that compared to a normal year when there was no hurricane we would have expected that 2975 people would lost their lives between september of 2017 and febr...