Miami Dolphins help finish home renovation for Navy Vet

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (WSVN) -- Miami Dolphins players and several other volunteers and organizations put the finishing touches on a Navy veteran's South Florida home they helped renovate.

A month ago, Leslye Lea, her 79-year-old mother, who suffers from colon cancer, and 16-year-old daughter were living in a home with a leaky roof and in desperate shape from top to bottom.

Thursday, Lea, a Navy veteran, walked into her house transformed by three weeks of labor and the kindness of strangers. "This is day and night. I said to my mom, 'It looks like it's going to rain today, I could go for just sitting outside on the patio and just listening to it rain and don't have to worry about getting buckets,'" said Lea.

Volunteers tackled every problem the home had, even putting on a new roof. Miami Dolphins players were on hand to help out with the last few repairs needed. Rooms To Go donated furniture and Best Buy donated two new televisions. "Just to see how much has been done, people putting the effort and just the way it came out, it's really nice," said Miami Dolphins player Tyrone Colver, "and today to go in and see the finished project with the furniture and stuff, it's going to be a great experience."

The organization, Rebuilding Together, oversaw the entire project after Lea's situation was brought to their attention by Hollywood Code Enforcement.

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