Florida hotels offering 'clean beach guarantees'

With the gusher in the Gulf continuing to spew oil at a catastrophic rate, the forecast for Florida's coastal areas can best be summed up by a recent clever headline:

Sunny with a chance of tar balls.

It's a play on the title of a recent kids' comedy ("Sunny with a Chance of Meatballs"), but the threat to Florida's $50 billion-plus tourism trade is hardly a laughing matter.

The disastrous BP oil spill that began in April in the Gulf of Mexico has already closed beaches along the Florida Panhandle, as tar balls - small spheres of clumped oil - have washed up on shore in places like Pensacola.