The 'Extreme' team is in the Big Easy to help repair damage from Hurricane Katrina.
"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" finishes up its 50-state tour with two rebuilds in the hard-hit New Orleans area for the season finale: a home for the Usea family and the Noah's Ark Missionary Baptist Church.
"The reason I think it is so significant and poignant [that we are finishing there] is that we are letting America and the world know that those people are still down there and still need help," designer MICHAEL MOLONEY tells ET. "It is phenomenal when you drive around and see what is still devastated, what is red tagged and waiting to be demolished."
The Usea family lives in Westwego, LA, which was hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina, but BRAD and LAURA USEA were lucky in that their home survived. Not so fortunate was Laura's mother GRACE, whose home was destroyed, as were those of Brad's twin brother CHAD and older brother CHRIS.
Democrat Barack Obama's appeal to  centrist voters has further opened the door to Republican claims his message of change only applies to the positions he has taken in the past.
AP - Iran indicated Saturday that it has no plans to meet a key Western demand that it stop enriching uranium, a day after Tehran sent the European Union a response to an international offer of incentives for halting enrichment.
AP - The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet.
