Veronica de la Cruz Hurricane Katrina. de la Cruz formerly appeared on CNN's Emmy-nominated morning show, "American Morning", from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Eastern time, providing Dotcom Desk information to CNN's early morning viewers. She became a contributor to their domestic network with the segment "Dotcom Desk", which launched during the 2004 Southeast Asian tsunami. She also substituted as a replacement anchor for CNN U.S. and HLN, formerly CNN Headline News. de la Cruz previously anchored the CNN broadband news service, CNN Pipeline, now CNN.com Live, and was one of its four founding anchors. Her contributions to CNN's news coverage include reporting on
William Headline Navy prior to his career in journalism. He worked for Louis Harris and Associates in New York gathering polling information. CBS News in New York hired him to work on coverage of the 1964 presidential election. Headline was promoted to senior vice president and later moved to Washington in 1974 as the network's assistant bureau chief. In his years at CBS News, Headline supervised the network's coverage of political conventions, overseas presidential trips and papal visits, and was the network pool producer during President Richard Nixon's resignation. Headline was hired by CNN in 1983, and was appointed as the network's