The Mother Mosque of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the oldest mosque in the United States, was flooded under nearly ten feet of water. As its members surveyed the damage an interfaith coalition of volunteers united to help sift through the wreckage.

Guest: U.S. Senator Benjamin Cardin, D-Md.

Political instability has put a spotlight on Nigeria, home to Africa's largest oil industry. Militants have recently sabotaged crude exports with series of attacks on drills and supply lines. With Nigeria pumping oil at its lowest rate in 25 years, unease about the global oil supply has increased.

Every Monday, The Takeaway plays your comments about new movies. This week, some not so fuzzy feelings for The Love Guru and Get Smart. Send your comments about next week's releases, WALL-E and Wanted, by Sunday at 3 p.m. Eastern (noon Pacific).

Nearly two months have passed since an outbreak of salmonella in tomatoes, leaving consumers uneasy and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration scrambling to find the source of the contamination. FDA field investigators are the agricultural detectives on the case.

The waters of the Cedar River are starting to recede in eastern Iowa, an area that was forced to evacuate nearly 24,000 people after heavy rains pounded the area. As residents slowly return, they are finding high waters remain. Iowa public media correspondent Dean Borg speaks with The Takeaway from his home outside Cedar Rapids.

The Supreme Court ruled that suspected terrorists detained at a prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have the right to contest their detention via U.S. civilian courts. Glenn Greenwald (Salon.com blogger and Bush administration critic) and Jed Babbin (Human Events editor and former deputy undersecretary of defense under President George H. W. Bush) take two views on the decision.

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that suspected terrorists detained at a prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have the constitutional right to contest their detentions in U.S. civilian courts. Human rights lawyer Barbara Olshanski, who argued before the Supreme Court in a 2004 Guantánamo case, dissects Thursday's decision.

A delegation of South Korean officials is on its way to Washington, D.C., as part of an effort to calm fears over mad cow disease. There have been demonstrations in South Korea over plans to resume imports of U.S. beef. The Takeaway gets the latest from the BBC's John Sudworth in Seoul.

Almost three years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita pounded the Gulf Coast, New Orleans is a shell and its citizens remain displaced and impoverished. Documentarian June Cross joins The Takeaway to discuss the region as the Federal Emergency Management Agency's deadline to evacuate victims still living in temporary trailers passes.

The Phoenix Mars Lander launched Aug. 4, 2007, in a quest to find life on Mars. After a 10-month journey, the lander successfully touched down on the planet's northern polar surface last night. CNN's technology and environment correspondent Miles O'Brien has been at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory since Friday. He joins us live from Pasadena, Calif.

Pictured: The Phoenix Lander's Delta 2 launch vehicle taking off; an artist's rendering of the lander itself, and one of the very first images sent back from the lander this morning after its successful touchdown last night.

For the first time, scientists have witnessed the birth of a supernova. Heidi Hammel with the Space Science Institute tells us more.

On the left: 'Before' images show a previously known supernova, SN 2007uy, in galaxy NGC 2770.

On the right: An X-ray image taken on January 9, 2008, captures a moment of a 5-minute-long burst, indicating the creation of a new supernova, SN 2008D. The exploded star became visible to regular photography a few days later.

Image credit: NASA/Swift Science Team/Stefan Immler

You are being drawn. If you are walking on the streets of New York City, there's a chance that an artist named Jason Polan is taking a flare pen and firing up his sketch pad. After two months, Polan has drawn 500 New Yorkers and he aims to draw a few million more.