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Puerto Rico suffered much higher death toll from Hurricane Maria

CBS News correspondent David Begnaud reports that Puerto Rico's governor, Ricardo Rosselló, will issue an executive order accepting the findings of a new report from George Washington University on the number of deaths from Hurricane Maria. The study estimated the death toll at 2,975 -- the highest in the U.S. in more than 100 years, passing the death toll from Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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