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
CNN Philippines programs like "CNN Newsroom", "CNN Today", "International Desk", "CNN Money" and "CNN Money View", with bluer hue, with exceptions to their lifestyle programming, while newer bumpers for general segments and current affairs shows followed suit. The channel also changed their theme music for their newscasts and bumpers and added new programs, led by the Philippine edition of New Day. "Nightly News" was axed in favor of an expanded "Newsroom", making "CNN Philippines Network News" the sole lineal brand holdover from its "Solar" tenure. Personalities from other networks such as Pinky Webb joined CNN Philippines, where she is the main anchor