in our particular case, president truman was at everglades city dedicating the everglades national parkdecember of 1947, and the press corps started yelling at the president, are you going to return to florida? he responded by saying, of coarse i am coming back, -- of course i am coming back i have a , little white house in key west. the house at that time was painted gray. the navy took this as a clear indication the president was returning so they painted the building all white. it is no longer navy grey, it is all white for the little white house. i would like to welcome you to the harry s truman little white house. it is florida's official presidential museum and has been used by seven american presidents. it is camp david south. the little white was built as the navy commander's home in 1890. it served a number of various commanders over almost a 100 year span, but it was slightly interrupted by presidents taft, franklin roosevelt, harry truman, dwight eisenhower, john kennedy, to bill clinton. -- jimmy carter and bill clinton. the department of defense says we seem to have a conti

in our case, president truman was at everglades city in december of 1947.he press corps started yelling at the president, are you going to return to florida? he responded by saying, of course, i have a little white house key west. -- in key west. it was painted gray, the navy took that as an indication that the president was returning they painted it all white. it is no longer navy grey. i would like to welcome you to the little white house. it is florida's official presidential museum. it has been used by seven american presidents. it was built as the navy commanders home back in 1890. it served a number of various commanders over almost 100 years. it was slightly interrupted by andidents taft and truman eisenhower and kennedy and jimmy carter. the department of defense. we seem to have a continuum through american history. largestlding was the building on the naval base. it was 9000 square feet. assequently, it was built the commander's home. by 1911, he realized things were getting snug. he emerged it into a single dwelling of almost 9000 square feet. ti

in our participate case, president truman was at everglade city, dedicating the everglades national parkn december of 1947. and the press corps started yelling at the president, are you going to return to florida, mr. president? and he responded by saying, of course i'm coming back, i have a little white house down in key west. and so the house at that time was painted gray. the navy took this as a clear indication the president was returning and so they painted the building all white. so, it's no longer navy gray. it's now all white for the little white house. i'd like to welcome you to the harry s. truman little white house. it is florida's official presidential museum and has been used by sevenl american presidents. it's camp david south. the little white house was built as the navy commander's home back in 1890. it served a number of various commanders over almost 100-year span, but it was slightly interrupted by presidented taft and franklin roosevelt and harry truman and dwight eisenhower and jimmy carter and bill kennedy, the department of defense. so, we seem to have a continuum

everglades. in wet season, florida dumps a massive amount of watt into the most delicate ecosystems while in dry season that water is diverted to farms and citiest for the economy, horrible for the environment. >> you have natural phenomenon called red tide as mike said but you have the night general coming in and giving it a booster shot. >> reporter: now scientists from florida gulf coast university are testing water up to 20 miles offshore looking for the definitive proof that america's sugar habit is making red tides worse. you're looking for the smoking gun? >> i'm looking for the smoking gun. i think we also have to realize that collectively we got to this point. it took 70 years, 80 years to get to where we are now around it will take a while to work our way out of it. >> reporter: the beach should be full of tourists. i find only cleanup crews, many of them unpaid volunteers. . you live in tennessee. >> absolutely. >> reporter: did you come out here just to do this? >> absolutely. >> reporter: really? >> i do. >> reporter: have you seen red tides this bad before? >> i have not. >> reporter: who's to blame, do you think? >> i think we al

everglades. in wet season florida dumps a massive amount of water into the most delicate ecosystems. while in dry season that water is diverted to farms and citiesfor the environment. >> you have a natural phenomenon called red tide. as mike said. but you have the nitrogen then coming in and giving it a booster shot. >> and now these scientists from florida gulf coast university are testing water up to 20 miles offshore. looking for the definitive proof that america's sugar habit is also making red tides worse. >> you're looking for the smoking gun. ? i'm looking for the smoking gun. >> i think we also have to realize that, you know, collectively we got to this point. it took 70 years, 80 years to get to where we are now. and it's going to take a while to work our way out of it. >> reporter: back on a beach that should be full of tourists i find only cleanup crews. many of them unpaid volunteers. >> you live in tennessee. did you come out here just to do this? >> absolutely. >> you're kidding. really? >> i did. >> have you seen red tides this bad before? >> i have not. >> and who's to blame, do you think? >> i think we all are to blame, to be ho