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+ CNN+ CNN+ (CNN Plus) was a Spanish 24-hour television news channel. Launched in 1999 as a joint venture by Sogecable and Turner Broadcasting, a unit of Time Warner that owns CNN, it went off the air at the end of . The management announced that CNN+ would be closed on 31 December 2010. The slogan of CNN Plus was "Está pasando, lo estás viendo" (It's happening, you're watching it). By 2008, there were other 24-hour television channels — Intereconomía TV and TVE 24h — and CNN plus was no longer the audience leader in this type of general information. On