We surveyed Puerto Rican funeral homes

By John D. Sutter, Leyla Santiago and Khushbu Shah, CNN
Video by McKenna Ewen and John D. Sutter, CNN
Updated 6:28 PM ET, Mon November 20, 2017

... Trump .. he praised Hurricane Maria's relatively low death toll -- then 16 ...

... politicians, academics and news outlets .. have raised questions about the accuracy of the official .. death toll ... A storm as powerful as Maria would be expected to kill hundreds of people ... San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz.. thought the toll could be 500 ...

... we called nearly every funeral home in Puerto Rico ... CNN was able to collect responses from 112 ...

Those funeral homes identified 499 deaths in the month after the storm -- September 20 to October 19 -- which they say were related to Hurricane Maria and its aftermath. That's nine times the official death toll. And .. it represents only about half of funeral homes ...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/health/hurricane-maria-uncounted-deaths-invs/index.html