president obama misses visiting midway atoll, the site of a pivotal battle in world war ii and now is part of the largest ecological protected area on the planet. national correspondent william blodgett s is live in holland lulu with the details. >> the president is still sleeping but what he's going to do today is show in the most concrete way he can that climate change is real. he's going to do that by flying to one of the most remote places on the planet. a tiny largely uninhabited controversy, midway is only two square miles of sand but it has 7000 species, a quarter of which are found nowhere else in the world, blue whales, green turtles, the sea has lots of birds which is why leslie the president did makeit the world's largest underwater preserve, it's called hunting . >> when you include a big chunk of the pacific ocean, we now have actually done more acreage than any other preserve. >> so the area is now larger than washington, oregon, california, utah and arizona combined and without action, the president says the oceans will rise, islands like midway will disappear and species will die. >> hopefully his being there will be a reminder for everybody that this is a safe place no