logics and supply chain management, prepositioning of supplies, as you were describing there, that seems like the sort of thing that we saw go so disastrously wrong for example in the hurricane maria response in puerto rico. it was one thing to say that puerto rico was in danger and in a fragile place when it came to the winds and rain of that storm. what fell apart and why maria ended um being such a fatal disaster, nearly 300,000 americans killed, ended up being such a disaster, the plans, the supply chain weren t managed. cbs was broadcasting images of thousands of pallets of bottled water that never got distributed to people in puerto rico and still to this day, a year after hurricane maria hit, those water bottles are sitting on a runway. it seems like supply chain management is the difference between life and death in terms of hurricane response. it is the difference between life and death. people who watch fema will tell
dramatic rise in the death toll. why? it is a central question in a host of questions, jon. the government was trying to get answers to all of these questions when they commissioned george washington university to do this study, and what they found is startling. let s break it down. the government now recognizes that 2,975 people died in this storm. 46 times higher than the initial death toll of 64. and this report analyzed deaths in puerto rico from when hurricane maria hit, in september of 2017, through february 2018. that s five months after the storm. researchers cite two major reasons for the discrepancy. one is incomplete death certificates, a lack of training and guidelines led to many death certificates not identifying the official cause of death as hurricane related. secondly, poor communication. researchers found the government s emergency plan was designed for a category 1, woefully inadequate for a cat 4 maria. this week, the governor
all he has to say is i m sorry, that 2,975 of you died. that s all he had to say. he s incapable of doing that. anything that comes out of the president s mouth that does not begin with i am sorry those people died, even as a simple act of being in tune with what we re feeling, is totally neglectful and totally off the grid. the man does not have a clue. nearly one year after hurricane maria hit puerto rico, we have found out that the death toll from the storm and its aftermath was much higher than official reports. according to a new study an estimated 2,975, americans were
dramatic rise in the death toll. why? it is a central question in a host of questions, jon. the government was trying to get answers to all of these questions when they commissioned george washington university to do this study, and what they found is startling. let s break it down. the government now recognizes that 2,975 people died in this storm. 46 times higher than the initial death toll of 64. and this report analyzed deaths in puerto rico from when hurricane maria hit, in september of 2017, through february 2018. that s five months after the storm. researchers cite two major reasons for the discrepancy. one is incomplete death certificates, a lack of training and guidelines led to many death certificates not identifying the official cause of death as hurricane related. secondly, poor communication. researchers found the government s emergency plan was designed for a category 1, woefully inadequate for a cat 4 maria. this week, the governor
thousands of people died because of the disastrously inadequate failure response. two days after hurricane maria hit puerto rico, i held a press conference in washington, d.c. and i begged the president to rush to send federal assets, to deploy these federal assets. they didn t. i told and i warned him, this is gentleman to become your katrina. indeed, it is his katrina. and let s remind people what the president had to say about his government s response to maria back in okay. take a listen. mr. president, between one and ten you would you grade the white house response to the disaster so far? i d say it was a ten. okay of last year, obviously the death toll tant we didn t know the full number was. now, given the news this official count has been closer to 3,000.