In a network first , ABC has selected two new weekend anchors who are both Latino for the flagship evening program World News Tonight . Cecilia Vega will work on Saturdays and Tom Llamas will take Sundays , ABC announced . Both reporters have been filling in on the broadcasts since previous weekend anchor David Muir began doing the weekday shows last September after Diane Sawyer stepped down . ABC has selected Cecilia Vega and Tom Llamas to be the two new weekend anchors for the network 's flagship evening program World News Tonight . Vega will work on Saturdays and Llamas will take Sundays . Vega has worked for ABC since 2011 at the network 's San Francisco Bay Area affiliate . In an office memo ABC News President James Goldston noted Vega was an Emmy-winning journalist who has covered the Olympics , Occupy Wall Street protests and Barack Obama 's presidential election . Vega will be moving to New York from California for the position . Llamas , also an Emmy-winner , has only been with ABC for five months . He has reported on the Ebola outbreak , the controversy surrounding the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by police and the massacre of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill , North Carolina . Goldston said both anchors would also be joining ABC News ' political team for the 2016 presidential election , which is being lead by the network 's chief anchor George Stephanopoulos . Elizabeth Vargas , who is half-Puerto Rican , anchored the program 's weekday shows with Bob Woodruff from January to May 2006 . Llamas has been with ABC for five months and has reported on the Ebola outbreak and Chapel Hill massacre . Llamas has been with the network 's San Francisco affiliate since 2011 and has covered everything from the Olympics to Barack Obama 's presidential election .
Cecilia Vega will work on Saturday and Tom Llamas will take Sundays . Both have been filling in since previous weekend anchor David Muir took over weekday shows from Diane Sawyer last September . Vega joined ABC in 2011 , Llamas has been with network for five months .