Tom Llamas ( ) is an anchor and correspondent for
ABC News based in New York. He previously was 5pm anchor for
WNBC's
News 4 New York and a contributing correspondent for
NBC News. Prior to that, he anchored WNBC's noon newscast until 2013 when he transitioned to reporting for the station's I-Team Unit. He won an Emmy award for a piece he wrote describing his experiences in 2008 as the first TV journalist working on a
human smuggling interdiction at sea with the Coast Guard. Llamas also substituted for
Jenna Wolfe and
Lester Holt on
Weekend Today on
NBC. He is a graduate of Loyola University New Orleans and was a member of the LA Gamma chapter of
Sigma Phi Epsilon.