Brad Pitt is "pushing" one of his children to become an architect.

FAMILIES are moving into the first six houses built through movie star Brad Pitt’s Make It Right foundation in Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans.

Families are moving into the first six houses built through Brad Pitt’s Make It Right foundation in Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans.

Confusion surrounds the marital status of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie after the actor's representative failed to rule out rumours the couple had married on Saturday in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Residents along the Texas and Louisiana coasts began clearing away debris today as crews worked to restore electricity to more than one million customers in four states after Hurricane Rita tore through the US Gulf Coast, causing less damage than feared.

Three million Americans evacuated before Hurricane Rita pummelled east Texas and the Louisiana coast, were urged not to hurry home today.

HURRICANE Rita's rains sent water pouring through breaches in a patched levee yesterday, cascading into one of the city's lowest-lying neighbourhoods in a repeat of New Orleans's flooding nightmare.

Hurricane Rita is expected to destroy almost 5,700 homes and affect more than five million Texans when it slams into the US coast overnight, officials said.