Transcript for Nearly 3,000 people killed in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria: Report
Next tonight, to Puerto Rico. And the Stagg number out this evening. We have traveled to Puerto ri so manyimes since hurricane MARIA hie island. More than 3 million American been 64. Tot, that death toll now 2,975 lives lost. ABC’s vio Oquendo again Ni Reporter:igarly one a slammed into erto Rico, a staggering new number. A L vastly underestimated. The dependent report from archers at George Washington university reveals2,97eople lost the lives due to MARIA. Th officialnment Dea ll had been 64. THR out formonths, medicine in T esident trpiting Puerto Rico, tossing paper ts to affected. And then declari destructionas far short of Katrina. F you looka real carophe like katrinad you lookthe tremendo hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died. Rter: The psi, at the, speaking of the ll in Puerto Rico. 16 peoplecertified. 16 people versus inhe thousands. R: But even then, the families across Puerto Rico, where than 3 million americanitve, found the numbers difficult to believe. Dareporting from puto on the ev ts visit, jt 15 minutes where the president held his news ce. Families with no running water.the darken hs.zbeth vazqdelgado and her fa, her aginparents, lp, nearly had been visiting some of these buildings all over puert haveou seen any insprs? No. Not at a they have not come te what has happened to these apartments. No one has co No one has come Reporter: And we asked, anyone brought food? How much food and water H th brought? None. Othing? None all. Reporter: Stepping through doorways ravagy the hurricane. Lizbeth’s parents, E oria, had been waiting for medicine. Medicine.nd it’s min. Reporte news returning to theand times, outrage overgt took for the power teturn disbelief over that initial death toll, far lower many thought here. Just two more back in yabucoa. We’ve got that worker uphere trying tstore power. The electricity had sti back on. Do you feel like you’ve been forgotten? Yeah, been gotten. Reporter: And tonight, Puerto ri’s governor now declaring the new number the official deh co well, this new death tolls what so many on the ground feared and belied Al now withuane season upon us, the more than 3 million Americans living inuerto Rico arell too familiar with thehey face. David? Victor oqo,e thank you
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