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World, people died on your watch. your lack of respect is appalling. and i gotta tell you, kate, as i have been going across this island and just the last few days, there is still very much an anxiety, a trauma that exists as people deal with the trauma that lingers after hurricane maria and the storm might just be around the corner. so to have this type of a statement put on top of that, it sort of just adds to the pain felt here that is associated with hurricane maria. the response that came later, and the conditions that people were forced to live in, not for weeks, but for months. >> leyla...

Reason, the death toll has been higher than what has been reported. news outlets have raised numbers about the accuracy of the numbers. cnn called 279 funeral homes. we were only able to reach about half of them. we asked how many of the deaths were believed to be relate to maria despite the official death toll, they claim 499 hurricane-related deaths in the month after the storm. that's nine times the government's numbers. >> why the gap? >> because that's what i said before, i work on factual. i can't work on i believe. >> we described one case. >> the gentlemen is at home and has a stroke a...

Were believed to be related to maria, despite the official death toll, they claim 499 hurricane-related deaths in the month after the storm. that's nine times the government's numbers. >> reporter: why the gap? >> as i said before, i work on factual. i can't work on i believe. >> reporter: so we described pepe's case. >> gentleman is at home, has a stroke, the person with him calls 911. 911 says we can't get to him in time because 150 mile an hour winds are pounded us, is that a hurricane death? >> absolutely. >> allow me to introduce you to pepe, that was his case. the discrepancy begins here...