birth_place url title ethnicity birth_date yearsactive birthname article_title education name
georgia , u.s. http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/bio?section=resources/inside_station/newsteam&amp;id=5771852 channel 6 action news bio channel 6 action news anchor african american 7 april 1971 1993 - present tamala monique edwards tamala edwards
 b.a. , stanford university tamala edwards
tamala edwards

tamala monique edwards -lrb- born april 7 , 1971 -rrb- is an american television news anchor and reporter .
she began her journalism career as a correspondent for `` time '' magazine in 1993 , eventually working in the washington , d.c. bureau .
in august 2001 , she came to work for abc news as a white house correspondent , later moving on to be a washington d.c.-based general correspondent appearing on `` world news tonight '' and `` good morning america '' .
edwards also anchored two abc news newscasts , `` world news now '' and `` world news this morning '' and discovered a bit of a cult following as several other world news now anchors have .
in 2005 , she moved to abc owned and operated station wpvi-tv in philadelphia , pennsylvania where she currently is the weekday morning `` action news '' anchor and a feature reporter .
edwards married rocco lugrine , a pastry chef of le bec fin , on september 19 , 2006 .
they became first-time parents on august 31 , 2009 , when tamala gave birth to a boy , rocco alexander edwards lugrine .
ms. edwards gave birth to another boy , massimo john edwards lugrine , on september 11 , 2012 .
her parents are edith and redick edwards , who live in houston , texas .
