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Information. wondering if that includes the death toll on puerto rico. what does the npr style book say about an era where we are covering president's denying death tolls on u.s. territories involving u.s. citizens? >> well, at this time, we keep doing fact checks. and at this point, we check the fact before the statement and after the statement. in an effort not to amplify things that simply aren't true. in the case of the death toll in puerto rico, it is a slightly complicated thing because the death toll was not properly calculated initially. and the puerto rican government acknowledged tha...

Covering president's denials on death tolls on u.s. territories involving u.s. citizens? >> at this time, we keep doing fact-checks. and at this point, we check the fact before the statement and after the statement. in an effort not to amplify things that simply aren't true. in the case of the death toll in puerto rico, it is a slightly complicated thing because the death toll was not properly calculated initially. and the puerto rican government acknowledged that, realized it was a problem. commissioned an inspect scientifically sound study. and that study found that there were nearly 3,000 d...

The neighbors? >> we went through a year and a half with a city appointed staff working on regulations for everything from restrictions, to fire suppression to make sure it was safe. >> john: and paid for a traffic study, $3,000? >> we had one of the concerns of the neighbors we would increase the traffic. >> john: road handles 35,000 cars a day, they say there is no problem. >> there is no entrance into the property but arterial road. we did a sound study. we had people come out at 10:00 p.m. and did a baseline sound level. then they compared that to all of the sound levels of hundreds of peo...

Neighbors? >> and we went through a year and a half with the city appointed staffs working on regulations, ada, fire suppression, make sure it was safe and all of those things. >> john: you paid for a traffic study. >> yes, we do. >> john: $3,000, one of the concerns of the neighbors was that we would increase the traffic. >> the road handles 35,000 cars a day, so, that everybody says, got to increase the traffic. >> there's no entrance into the property other than the main thoroughfare, which is an arterial road. >> john: you had a sound study. >> we had people on a holiday weekend 10 p.m. an...