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
Updates (CNN Philippines) Updates (CNN Philippines) CNN Philippines Updates or simply Updates is the flagship news brief of CNN Philippines. It was launched in March 1, 2012 under the channel's predecessors Solar News Channel (as "Solar News Update" and "Solar Headlines") and 9TV (as "Headlines") and currently airs at 9:30am and 11:30 am on weekday mornings, 2:30pm and every 30 minutes from 4:00pm to 5:00pm on weekday afternoons, and on weekends every hour from 9:00am to 5:00pm. When warranted, "Updates" can be aired beyond its regular news brief format for special coverages; and when a breaking story occurs, it will air as CNN