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Theyve organized themselves bringing cargoes, planes, ships here. and in the afternoons, mornings when you look on your borderways between the island of st. croix that was not hit very hard, that has become a base camp. and there are flotillas, guys in speed boats bringing supplies to st. thomas and st. john. >> your constituents, are they safe? weve heard reports of looting going on, even heard reports of some areas in the caribbean where there are looters with machetes. so what are you hearing...

You went down with the coast guard. you had a look around the virgin islands including st. thomas. tell me what you know. >> as you said, the coast guard were able to bring me from san juan to the island -- i did an overview of st. thomas, st. john, going into the bbi and landing on st. thomas. then with my staff we got into an suv and did several days of traversing through st. thomas, meeting with government officials. our emergency management agency there as well as coast guard. as you said, d...

Using this particular weapon? >> nos no threshold for using it. it is a conventional munition. but you have to ensure when you drop it somewhere, john, that there is no potential for collateral damage. when you drop this thing, it is going to destroy everything in the -- what they call the circular area of probability. the place where you drop it and the radius around that place you drop it, youve got to make sure you dont have any kind of friendly collateral damage or any kind of civilian casua...

Him on much of what he tweets out? >> it does. and i think that the base agrees with him, but in the fight that we just had over the health care reform bill, the base was really not able to rally support. any of the members of congress going over to his side, so i think the base is dispersed. not as effective during the camp -- as during the campaign. and politics is now going on in washington. and thats where donald trump needs support. the base camp helped him with that. and i think the way th...

Camp at 14,000 feet. i really didnt have many problems with the altitude. part of the effect of the bad weather is we got pinned down in certain camps and that slowed down our progress and more gradually introduced me to the altitude on this climb. >> i dont mean to playoff at you because i know its serious and you could die if you screwed it up. you set up oxygen deprivation tent in your apartment? >> well, my house, yeah.ç my girlfriend called it the michael jackson tent. >> what did the nei...

And then we went up to base camp at 14,000 feet. i really didnt have many problems with the altitude. part of the effect of the bad weather is we got pinned down in certain camps and that slowed down our progress and more gradually introduced me to the altitude on this climb. >> i dont mean to playoff at you because i know its serious and you could die if you screwed it up. you set up oxygen deprivation tent in your apartment? >> well, my house, yeah.ç my girlfriend called it the michael jacks...

North dakota where protesters have until monday to leave the camps at the site of the proposed dakota pipeline. far from leaving more are showing up even after a blizzard that dumped a foot of snow to protest as this threat to native american areas. also headed in our own cal perry of msnbc. he joins us on the phone. it is my understanding youre on the road. what are you seeing on the ground driving between the protest locations or getting to the location. >> reporter: we just moved from where t...

Antananarivo, tana for short, madagascars crowded chaotic capital city. >> how are you doing, man? base camp. >> wow, thats quite a rain. i dont know. im not sure if i can be in front of the camera. >> just ignore them. >> im so used to controlling everything. >> darren aronofsky, director of the films "pi," "the wrestler," "black swan," and as it would turn out, sort of appropriate to our location, "noah." he asked me if he could go along on a trip with us. i said, where do you want to go? >> m...

Capital city. >> how are you doing, man? base camp. >> wow, thats quite a rain. ♪ i dont know. im not sure if i can be in front of the camera. >> just ignore them. >> im so used to controlling everything. >> darren aronofsky, director of the films "pi," "requiem for a dream," "the wrestler," "black swan," and sort of appropriate to our location, "noah." he asked me if he could go along on a trip with us. i said where do you want to go. >> madagascar, i knew almost nothing about it. i knew it w...

Madagascars crowded chaotic capital city. >> how are you doing, man? base camp. >> wow, thats quite a rain. i dont know. im not sure if i can be in front of the camera. >> just ignore them. >> im so used to controlling everything. >> darren aronofsky, director of the films "pi," "the wrestler," "black swan," and as it would turn out, sort of appropriate to our location, "noah." he asked me if he could go along on a trip with us. i said where do you want to go. >> madagascar, i knew almost nothin...