magazine, the hurricane's invisible tragedies explores how the government's response left puerto rico languishing for many months after the worst of the storm was over. joining me, the author in washi. let me ask you what we know of how things are there. what the actual death count may be. "the new york times" reporting it could be as high as 1,052, perhaps even higher than that. the official toll, 64. how hard is it to get data on what's happened over the last 100 days. >> different ways of counting the number of people who died. and the way that you get to more than 1,000 deaths is by subtracting what the rate was before and what it's been since then. and we know when there isn't electricity, people die. mortality increases. it increased more than 20% in new york in august of 2003 for during a one-day blackout. puerto rico has been without power for more than 100 days. those statistics you posted