and rescue personnel in place already. some 300 ambulances already prepositioned. so they re prepared as the storm pushes through to do what s necessary to make sure people are safe to get to the people who need help. also according to the army core of engineers, very important to note they have 105 generators in position. that s important. 15 more than on the way. they are important because they re strong enough to power schools and hospitals. because the power here as the storm comes through, you may see it. the power goes in and out. again the numbers important because you get a sense officials have taken steps to prepare to preposition equipment. to make sure that they re prepared as this storm passes through. that will take several hours. possibly days. we had mike with us earlier. on the other side of the break.
for the hurricane to make land fall. we will have an update from fema on this massive hurricane. good morning. we know that they started off the morning here at fema with their operational meeting, so that is likely still ongoing. but we do expect them to come out here and give us the very latest as far as where their assets are deployed and their final warnings, essentially for people who are in that target area. we do know that, you know, aside from warnings people that they need to get out, fema as well as the army core of engineers are paying closer to five federally operated dams in the target area. army core of engineers saying they will be paying close attention to those dams because obviously the bottom line is they don t want this issue of a breach, so they will be
the army core of engineers is prepared and ready to respond to hurricane florence. to date we have over 200 personnel engaged with over six million in mission assignment dollars from fema and over $13 million in federal coastal emergency dollars. in the pacific ocean division continues to assess and respond to the effects from the typhoon and the hurricane out in the pacific. while here in the atlantic under the stafford act authorities are postured to provide temporary power support, temporary roofing, housing and inf infrastructure assessments in the carolinas, virginia and elsewhere where needed. as far as dams, they re fine in virginia and north carolina. all have sufficient flood control capability to accept the
storm is a significant event. our resources will be stretched. if you are fortunate enough not to be impacted, we would like to have you consider being a volunteer. you can do that at redcross.org or any of the other fine agencies that you choose to volunteer with. thank you. and folks, one of the most powerful arms of the whole community is the nongovernmental organizations like the red cross and here again when this storm passes, this is about neighbor helping neighbor all the way up to the fed rl governmeeral gove. if you are looking to get involved and you are looking to get involved to help out the situation once this thing is passed, go to redcross.org. next up we have our partners with the army core of engineers, mr. alexander. thank you, administrator long. good morning.
congressman gallagher, when we look back for precedence in this, we had on judge andrew napolitano last hour, he said, there is some precedence when you look at road building and taking some money from the army core of engineers under defense budget for large roads and projects. there s press defense, because this is the defense, national security portion being able to use money without necessarily going through congress. what do you say about that? certainly we could have the debate about whether to increase amount of funding we give to army core of engineers. we give about $3 billion annually which is allocated for existing projects. but those come from separate funds. just by way of reference, $25 billion, which is projected to cost this project is what we gave navy for their shipbuilding account. ii support him in that regard.