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
it turns out these skeptics were right. puerto rico has officially adjusted the death toll due from hurricane maria to 2,975. gw researchers analyzed deaths from when hurricane maria made landfall september of 2017, to february 2018, five months into the aftermath. researchers found the discrepancy mainly due to incomplete death certificates that did not mark the hurricane as the cause of death. the initial death toll included direct deaths from the storm like from flooding. it did not include deaths caused indirectly from hurricane maria such as from lack of power, lack of medicine. this week, president trump stood by the federal government s response while the puerto rican governor apologized. i think we did a fantastic job in puerto rico. we are still helping puerto rico. the governor is an excellent guy. he is very happy with the job we ve done. we agree on that. i agree in hindsight that it s
themselves. we hire a firm to research me. and they did submit freedom of information requests back in september of 2017 and as of now, we have not received any information from cia or from the u.s. postal service related to my time as a federal agent or a case officer with the cia. so you asked for this information on yourself. you waited nine months and still haven t gotten anything. we know from the timing that the republicans got a response including your security clearance application, they had it in hand within three weeks of them first making a request. that timing seems nuts. i don t know if you have any explanation or any suspicions about that. i don t have an explanation for it. i would echo your sentiments. as you noted in the opening, a foia request wouldn t typically or wouldn t result in receiving an sf86 which is the national security questionnaire and certainly not an unredacted one which as you mentioned included
research me. and they did submit freedom of information requests back in september of 2017 and as of now, we have not received any information from cia or from the u.s. postal service related to my time as a federal agent or a case officer with the craft. so you re wasting nine months and haven t gotten anything. we know from the response that they got a response including your unredacted security application, they had in it hand within three weeks of them first making a request. that timing seems nuts. i don t know if you have any explanation or any suspicions about that. i don t have an explanation for it. i would echo your sentiments. as you noted in the opening, a foya request wouldn t result in receiving an sf 86 which is the national security questionnaire, certainly not an unredacted one
here we are. yeah. i want to play something for you. this is aretha franklin from a never before seen interview with from an upcoming cnn original series. take look and we ll and talk about. our first neighborhood in detroit was on what s called the north end of detroit, and we stayed right on the corner of oakland which was around the corner from my oldest and dearest friend, smokey robinson. we were sand box friends. and i used to give them little tips before they became many miracles. that interview was done in september of 2017. talk to me about aretha and the church in detroit in the early days. when did you first hear her sing? the first day that i met them. her brother, cecil was one of my aces.