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Following Woodruff's severe injury on January 29, 2006, while on assignment in Iraq, and Vargas's announcement that she was pregnant, some critics questioned whether Vargas could sustain the program on her own, pointing to falling ratings.

In July 2006, Cindy Adams of the New York Post reported that Gibson would become Woodruff's " Temporary Permanent Replacement " on World News Tonight.

According to some reports, while GMA co-host Diane Sawyer had coveted the World News Tonight anchor chair, Gibson had one year on his contract left and threatened to retire if he didn't get that position, and as GMA was ABC News ' most lucrative show, it would be badly damaged if it lost both Sawyer and Gibson .< ref >