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  • Claudia Morales
    Senior Producer for Digital Video News

    Claudia Morales manages daily domestic news video for CNN's digital platforms. She also produces, writes, shoots and edits original news videos.

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  • America on Hold

  • A medical worker sanitizes the ambulance after transferring a patient on a stretcher outside of Emergency at Coral Gables Hospital where Coronavirus patients are treated in Coral Gables near Miami, on July 30, 2020. (Photo by Chandan Khannan/AFP/Getty Images)

    Defining moments of a global pandemic

  • A house destroyed by hurricane winds is seen in Corozal, west of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 24, 2017 following the passage of Hurricane Maria. Authorities in Puerto Rico rushed on September 23, 2017 to evacuate people living downriver from a dam said to be in danger of collapsing because of flooding from Hurricane Maria. / AFP PHOTO / Ricardo ARDUENGO (Photo credit should read RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP/Getty Images)

    Puerto Rico: Then and now

  • Alejandro, 13, said he misses his family in Guatemala, but life is far too dangerous back home. But "everything in life costs something. Nothing is easy. And whatever is easy isn't worth it."

    The lasting effects of family separations, as seen through the eyes of a 13-year-old

    Story by Holly Yan and Claudia Morales, CNN Video by Deborah Brunswick and Anne Lagamayo, CNN
    Alejandro and his mom journeyed for days without eating, stuck in a putrid bus with 65 strangers stuffed "all on top of each other."

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