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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 leila 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. laila, i understand the new numbers come from george washington university, a study out of there. what else are you learning from that? >> i spent some time today speaking with those researchers, and one of the first things they made clear that this is actually a...

Sessions saying that doesn't work because the vast ma jofrtdday difficulties do not return for their court dates. sara sanders indicating wait a minute, there hasn't been a change of policy. she said we're not changing the policy, we're simply out of resource dollars. i can tell you i spoke with an administration official earlier today who echoed that sentiment. so trying to walk a very fine line on the issue, hallie. but then the attorney general saying, knno, we're still enforcing the zero tolerance. the bottom line, you have more than 2000 kids who haven't been reunited with their families....

Kellyanne conway on another network saying that nobody likes this policy. they are acting as though they are hands off with this. in may of this year, jeff sessions said, if you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that child will be separated as required by law. if you don't like that, then don't smuggle children over our border. there's a lack of empathy across the board as it relates to immigrants. obviously, that was a part of donald trump's campaign yesterday was i think the three-year anniversary of that campaign. it's been a fixture of his political doctrine since the b...

Could be nine times what the government was reporting at the time. t that was on the ground reporting. talking to funeral directors and talking to fies. this will be concrete data that gives us an idea of what happened and, brooke, quite possibly could help prevent some of these deaths in the future. now as i mentioned, our attorneys -- just got out of the meeting and our attorneys are still negotiating. we still don't have those records in hand. but the important thing is that the government of puerto rico for the first time since our lawsuit is now saying they will hand over those records. a...

P.m. pacific, the first votes to be counted will be those electronic votes that people are casting today. there are a lot of mail ballots that came in that they can count. all of the mail-in ballots that people are dropping off today will have to be counted. it could take days if not weeks to get through those. the tea leaves we have here is there are more people voting this year ins off year primaryn therevious off year in 2014. so far in the three districts in orange county, more republicans have sent in ballots than democrats. we have to see. john. >> interesting. miguel, i appreciate you b...