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    CNN's 24 Hours Of Poop Ship

    Relive the first major "breaking news" event to be covered by Jeff Zucker's dynamic new CNN with its amazing chyrons.

    Feb. 14, 2013, will go down in history as the first day Jeff Zucker's dynamic new CNN really covered a breaking news story, like a sewage-soaked Carnival cruise blanket. Let's take a look at how much broadcast time CNN dedicated to what will be remembered by many as Jeff Zucker's Gulf War.

    At 5 a.m., it began.

    The "Situation Room," CNN's premiere political show, dives in at 4 p.m.

    Erin Burnett takes over at 7 p.m.

    Surprisingly, Anderson Cooper is nowhere to be found during this huge day for CNN. New guy Chris Cuomo answers the call.

    Donny Duetsch, in for Piers Morgan, gets his chance to impress Zucker with his ability to handle such a massive story.

    As CNN heads into the home stretch, it keeps pace with Duetch's wall-to-wall coverage.

    In this 24-hour period, CNN dedicated 758 broadcast minutes to the Poop Ship. That's 52% of the day.

    Now let's relieve CNN's historic day with some of the Poop Ship's most memorable chyrons.