it was a catastrophe. gabriel desperate to find his relative, leads a team of rescuers up a muddy mountain. you might remember those moments playing out during an after hurricane maria in puerto rico. we re showing them to you now because it s part of a new segment we are introducing today. follow-up friday. every friday this month bringing back stories from this year that may have faded from the news cycle but are front seanter for a lot of people every day. so it s been 79 days since maria hit the island. right now today about a third of puerto rico still does not have power. 7% have no running water. and we still don t know for sure how many people have died because of this storm. the conditions have forced hundreds of thousands of people to leave the island they call home in search of something better. how many people? our latest nbc news reporting comes from the florida division of emergency management that
with whitefish, a tiny montana company that had only two full-time employees at the time. it appears the death toll in puerto rico from hurricane maria has been dramatically underreported. the official death toll is 55, but cnn investigators surveyed 112 funeral homes on the island. that s about half the total. those facilities identified 499 deaths in the month after maria hit. that is nine times the official count. texas governor greg abbott authorizing a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction following the murder of u.s. border patrol agent rogelio e h martinez. they say martinez and his partner were injured on patrol near van horn, texas. rogelio martinez was struck multiple times, possibly by a rock, and died from his injuries. his partner, whose name has not been released, is in serious condition, and officials say he is having difficulty remembering the incident. the area of the attack is a well-known drug smuggling route.
company that had only two full-time employees at that time. it turns out the death toll in puerto rico from hurricane maria has been dramatically underreported. the official total is 55 fatalities, but cnn investigators surveyed 112 funeral homes on the island. only half of the total number of homes on the island, funeral homes. those facilities identified 499 deaths in the month after maria hit. that is nine times the official count. texas governor greg abbott authorizing a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction following the murder of u.s. border patrol agent rogelio martinez. a spokesman for the border patrol council labor union says martinez and his partner were injured on patrol near van horn, texas. martinez was struck multiple times, possibly with a rock, and died from his injuries. his partner, whose name has not been released, is in serious condition. officials say he is having trouble remembering the incident.
very uphill to see them but it turns. also out. for where the workers the ones that are open that is about one in three hotels on the island is still boarded up and a lot of restaurants can t open because they still have no regular power many beaches also remain closed after sewage systems overflowed into the sea during the hurricane still where to reconsider thrown in the towel some even see this as a fresh start. an opportunity to improve an opportunity to assess where we re at as a as an industry and really revamp our product address to the bottom line the brave words what puerto rico was struggling with serious budgetary problems even before maria hit and those missing tourists will make it that much harder to bounce back. right a vision or and there are saudi arabia s planning on building
over-policed, over-criminalized, over-incarterated without being activists. when you add activists on top of that we are being surveilled, criminalized for protesting and activi activism, and we are being targeted by local law enforcement and being targeted now by the federal government, and i think that s a shame. especially when we see people like in las vegas. the domestic terrorist who killed over 60 people. yeah. we are this government is focusing on the wrong group of people. yeah. i recommend everyone go back and read a.c. thompson s krilling report in pro publica. well done. patrice a treat to talk to you. thank you all. coming up, a month since hurricane the irma and maria and hurricane sorry, hurricane irma and maria hit puerto rico