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and while many in the region have begun to rebuild, the marines at camp lejeune are still waiting forcal repairs at their base. nbc's courtney cuby has more. >> reporter: six months ago marines were training in this classroom. today ceilings are caved in, and mold is everywhere. more than one of 900 buildings here ravaged by hurricane florence. >> we're here doing our work, but the conditions we're working in are like we're in iraq or afghanistan. >> reporter: the colonel is one of the top officers. >> is this the way we want our marines and civilian marines to be working in these conditions? >> reporter: brig a dear ben watson oversees all the based on the east coast. >> none of the buildings have been repaired since hurricane damage? >> that's right. >> reporter: the price tag stands at $3.6 billion. but so far, these marines haven't seen a dime. in a memo obtained by nbc news, marine corps commandant robert neller warned that a lack of funds for hurricane recovery combined with negative factors, including unplanned southwest border operations, have imposed an unacceptable risk to m

so far $3.6 billion has been allocated for hurricane repairs, but so far camp lejeune hasn't seen adime. >> we're 100% operational, we're here doing our work, but the conditions we're working in aree like if were in iraq or afghanistan. >> the damage stretches to the beach. eroded sand duels have forced marines to scale back training. a top gelra says one negative factor delaying reirs is the diversion of resources to the military mission at the u.s.-mexico border. >>> today is a holiday of silly pranks, but microsoft won't be taking part in any of it. microsoft is banning its employees fromin cre public april fool's pranks this year. microsoft has participated in many pranks over the years. it's marketing chief is telling employees notthis time. it causes problems. >> yeah. you got all that technology there. yot want to mess with stuff. >>> speaking of tech giants, b hapthday gmail. >> the google e-mail service has been around for 15 years now. when gmail first launched, there was internet speculation that it was a hoax because it was april wfools' day. real, though. gmail is now the m

but the marines at camp lejeune are still waiting to help- for help to rebuild their base. take a look. this is a classroom where marines used to train. now the ceilings have caved, in the walls are a crumbling, mold is everywhere. this is just one of 900 buildings damaged by hurricane florence. so far, $3.6 billion has been allocated for repairs. so far camp lejeune has not seen a dime. >> we're 100% operational. we're here doing our work. but the conditions we're working in are like if we were in iraq or afghanistan. >> the damage alsoches to the beach. eroded sand dunes ha forced marines to scale back training. a top general says one negativel factoring repairs is the diversion of resources to the military mission at the u.s.-mexico border. >>> today is a holiday of silly pranks, april fool's. microsoft won't be taking part in any of it. icrosoft banned its employees from creating public april fool's pranks this year. microsoft has participated in many pranks over the years, but the marketing chief told employees not this year. think in this age it creates too many probl

camp lejeune, about $3 billion worth of damage, but it's a much larger base. they will need that money. the marine corps is a smaller service. the financial hit is bigger for them. greta: we want to get our viewers involved. a special line this morning for active military. what about the larger impact of conflicthange, causing and strife around the world. what are the national security iflications of that? john: you take a step back, i normally think of it in a few different categories. you have how impact today's jobs, what kind of jobs you will have the future, and that is an arctic issue. that there's the whole geopolitical situation. as you have climate structures around the world, shortages of water, food. sea level rise pushing people away from the coast. create stresscts on a country. if you have a country that has limited governance capacity, they have either a government that is less competent and able to do with these problems, you get instability. that can sometimes lead to conflict. how has the top administration treated this issue? john: it's inte

they only started in april, 1943. 18,000 were trained at camp lejeune. before they went there, they went to hunter college in new york and the officers went to mount holyoke where they trained them. the navy had 11,000 nurses. they started in 1942 with the minimum age of 20. the coast guard, spars, as it was called, which was an acronym. they had from 10,000 to 11,000 women. that was a somewhat surprising fact for most people because they did not think women were in the coast guard or the marines. all this time, they did not have equal status to men. only in 1948, after the war, or women granted equality with men in the armed forces. despite the fact there were 350,000 of them, they were not considered the same as men. it had to be corrected later on. here are women in the navy. these are marvelous images that are from the navy's history website. this is what is called the choked chamber. this is an air traffic control tower. this is parachute rigging. this is preparing for being on planes, and different circumstances and situations. women and air traffi

that includes billions in, damat yet repaired, at the marine corps training base, camp lejeune.waiting, large areas of california where wildfires hit last year, including the most costly in state history, which killed more than 80 people. this march, almost unprecedented flooding hit the midwest, devastating both farmland and crops in storage. and all of that is being held up mostly by disagreement over another disaster area: puerto rico. the territory is still recovering from 2017's hurricane maria, but republicans say thet island musart handling more recovery costs on its own-- f least 10%. >> so, in the caseertowh rico's the big deal? anybody that qualities for in fema... those laws have been the same for such a long period of time. >> desjardins: but democrats want the federal government to fully fund recovery, pointing out the island is appling with financial and economic crisis. they also want money to rebuild infrastructure. >> we want to help these people, and republicans, and trump, need to understand that in puerto rico, we are dealing with americans who are still reel

you didn't mention the marine corps base at camp lejeune was also devastated. total cost of recovery from those three bases is somewhere around $8 billion. those are key bases for the american military. what i don't understand is why the billion dollars from the u.s. army personnel account was transferred to the counternarcotics account so it can be used to build a border wall. when you're giving us testimony that these, the recovery of these bases is absolutely essenti essential. and i don't understand so i'm going to ask specifically, secretary wilson, what is your view of the transfer of that billion dollars from the army personnel account to build a wall rather than to back fill the $740 million that you've had to spend to clean up tyndall air force base? could it be better spent? >> i can't think of a time i've been here, certainly in the air force, where we've had a natural disaster like we've seen hit lejeune and tyndall and offutt. and we didn't take it from other parts of the service or other parts of the department. so i think we need a supplemental t

you didn't mention the marine corps base at camp lejeune was also devastated. total cost of recovery from those three bases is somewhere around $8 billion. i assume it's a priority because those are key bases for the american military and our security. what i don't understand is why the billion dollars from the u.s. army personnel account was transferred to the counternarcotics account so it can be used to build a border wall. when you're giving us testimony that these, the recovery of these bases is absolutely essential. and i don't understand so i'm going to ask specifically, secretary wilson, what is your view of the transfer of that billion dollars from the army personnel account to build a wall rather than to backfill the $740 million that you've had to spend to clean up tyndall air force base? could it be better spent? at tyndall? >> i can't think of a time i've been here, certainly in my service at the air force, where we've had a natural disaster like we've seen hit lejeune and tyndall and offutt. and we didn't take it from other parts of the service or

for the repair of camp lejeune? >> congressman that is not a call to make, my perspective is prioritization in the army, obviously shanahan is a broader perspective and the white house is a national perspective. my ability to privatize within the army is what we did. the f1 90 appropriations from which that was a taken -- >> excuse me for interrupting. specifically the money was in the army account, could it have been transferred to long-range precision fires or maybe combat vehicles or vertical lift or maybe missile defense? could it have been transferred there for those purposes to specifically serve the military's need for high effect combat with our near peer adversaries? >> yes sir but there are two qualifiers. one of course they came for the military personnel account. they were soldiers we do not have. that is point number one. the f1 18 budget satisfied our modernization needs as presented to you last year. the second thing is we came across this in september- october, turned it over to osd at that time, so

camp lejeune took damage from hurricane florence.iver floods in missouri an air force base recently. host: how long does it take for these bases to get back up and running? guest: it's hard to say that they are completely up and running. the air force base is mostly back. they'veair force base, said that most of their missions are back. took $3.5 billion of damage. it is a much larger base. they will need that money. the financialps, hit is bigger for them proportionally. host: republicans, 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002. also, a special line for active military. 202-748-8003. what about the larger impact of conflicthange causing and strife around the world? what are the national security applications of that? guest: i normally think of it in a few different categories. you have how it impacts today's jobs, what kind of jobs you will have in the future, arctic dynamics, and then the whole geopolitical situation. as you have climate stresses around the world, shortages of sear, shortages of food, lev

a couple weeks ago, we were at camp lejeune, and my son -- my eldest son retired as a marine officer. served two tours in iraq. and he had the chance to say something. and he spoke some words of commendation to his mother. and he said, i thank my mother for teaching me discipline. i thought i had something to do with it, but apparently she was the one. and actually, he could have gone on to pick up on all the marine standards. in terms of justice and initiative and tact and the whole list of leadership qualities. so my wife did not serve in the military, but she served the military. and mothers do that. when i was working at ocar, chief of army reserve, i learned in world war i they started giving small arms ammunition to the boy scouts. and i don't know how long that continued, whether it still continues. but the point was, guys were showing up for basic training without knowing what to do with a rifle. so at least you teach guys that we meet at boot camp how to hold one of these things. mothers similarly teach the basics to prepare. so they are definitely serving in the military. we