From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the Daily.

Today, after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico's government announced that just 64 people had been killed by the storm.

But the hundreds of bodies showing up at Moors across the island tell a different story.

It's Friday, February 9th.

Millie. Millie. But it's not Millie, it's Millie. Millie. Millie. Millie. Okay.

So my name is Millie Bonilla. I live in the Bronx in a borough of New York City.

My family lives in Puerto Rico in the metropolitan area in a place called Duabaja near San Juan, in the San Juan area.

Can you tell me a bit about your father? Sure. So my father Jose Bonilla Rios, everyone known him as Pepe.

Pepe. In the late 50s and 60s, the job situation was very dire on the island. And so many folks were saying New York has factories, has jobs.

You know, go to New York, make a living there. And so that was the biggest migration period of Puerto Ricans coming to New York City. And he came then. And he came then.

I call him a very maternal man. He actually negotiated with my mother when they were to be divorced to say that no matter what, I want to raise my daughter.

That was an interesting thing for a man to say, I want to be the primary caretaker. That was the person he was very gentle.

How old were you when that happened? I was around like two and a half years old.

And did he succeed in becoming the primary care? He did became the primary caretaker. Later on, he went back to Puerto Rico.

And did you go back to Puerto Rico with him? No, I didn't. I didn't go. I was, you know, to finish school, which was a big deal for the family. And so we just visited every, every summer.

Do you have any pictures of him? Yeah, they do. Can you show them?

So when I keep on my, on the home screen, on my home screen, that's him.

Yeah, and that's what everyone says.

With light blue eyes, kind of wavy hair, very slim, very gentle, very much dressing with his guayaveira, which is the, you know, very elegant dress for men in the island.

It's a, it's a kind of a double pocket. Yeah, that's what you wear.

Where were you, Millie, when you first heard about Hurricane Maria? And what was your reaction to the news that it was headed for Puerto Rico?

So I was here in New York City. We were having communication with family members about how they were going to prepare people were ready, you know, they've been hurricanes before.

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