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It hosts the largest naval base in the country. sailors are coming home from long deployments to a base threatened by encroaching seas. made worse by natural phenomena that caused the land here to sink. >> this base is uniquely vulnerable to sea level rise. that potentially makes it a very expensive headache for the military. to replace just one of these piers would cost roughly $100 million. may mavis is the former secretary of the navy. >> if we don't arrest sea level rise. if we don't reverse this or slow it down, norfolk is going to disappear. that nail base will go under water. i represen...

This house everything that would come with it in terms of the tides, the floods, the power outages, would you maybe have looked for somewhere else to live? >> maybe. but it really was my dream house and it always has been. so -- but i can certainly see it becoming unlivable. and that does worry me. >> for norfolk, the problem has added significance. it hosts the largest naval base in the country. sailors are coming home from long deployments to a base threatened by encroaching seas. made worse by natural phenomena that caused the land here to sink. this base is uniquely vulnerable to sea level...