January

Soledad continued to co-anchor on Weekend Today on Saturdays, 7 - 9 AM ET, and Sundays, 8 - 9 AM ET from the NBC studios in New York during the first half of 2003.

David Bloom
April

The NBC network and viewers were shocked in April 2003 by the sudden death from natural causes of Soledad's co-anchor David Bloom while he was reporting on the war in Iraq.

Soledad was asleep at home when NBC's Bill Wheatley phoned her with the news that David had died while covering the Iraq war.

"I thought he had been hit by a bomb or shot or ambushed. Then Bill told me it was a pulmonary embolism. Basically, I stayed up for the next two days. It's still so horrible. He was so young. I know his family. His kids came to the show a lot. It's very difficult. There's no way to make it better. Your heart breaks for them."

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Soledad Moves To CNN
June

It was announced that Soledad O'Brien would be leaving NBC and begin her duties at CNN in July.

As the co-anchor of the network's flagship morning program, American Morning, she will be based in New York City and also be reporting from the scene on the transformational stories that break across the country and world.

Click image at left for the larger version of what Soledad's Official CNN bio page looked like in October 2003.