As of Monday, 47 days after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, the island is still far from recovered. 59% of the island is still without power, 17% is without clean drinking water, and 11% of grocery stores are still closed.
The official death toll stands at 55; however, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz told CNN's Jake Tapper that the real number is actually hundreds higher. And although a statement, released October 28 by the government of Puerto Rico, said that 911 of the bodies that were cremated in the weeks after Hurricane Maria were the result of "natural causes," Cruz claims the average number of cremations on the island during the same period last year was about half that.
