Sophia Vergara and Diane Sawyer

ABC News and Yahoo! were among the media entities hosting cocktail parties tonight ahead of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Washington Hilton. ABC’s primetime stars mingled with ABC Newsers, many of whom arrived just a few hours earlier. TVNewser hears the 2pm Delta shuttle from New York brought several ABC News anchors to D.C. including Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric (who was actually on the way to her brother’s wedding) and Cynthia McFadden as well as NBC’s Harry Smith, and others. Here are a few pictures from the ABC News/Yahoo cocktail party:

Al Roker, George Stephanopoulos and wife Ali Wentworth

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, ABC News DC bureau chief Robin Sproul and "Modern Family" star Eric Stonestreet

More pictures after the jump…

Rick Santorum with ABC News president Ben Sherwood

Jake Tapper flanked by actors Elizabeth Banks and Paul Rudd

Sophia Vergara and Cynthia McFadden