anthony, g.m.'s back to making a profit, and investors are hoping to hitch a ride. >> reporter: exactly, katie. a very strong demand for g.m. stock has pushed up the offering price. it will mean a significant payback for american taxpayers and general motors will no longer be "government motors." g.m. unveiled the new camaro at the los angeles auto show today. tomorrow, it will unveil its new stock on wall street. is g.m. now a healthy company? >> g.m. is absolute a healthy company. >> reporter: steve rattener is the former head of the obama administration's auto task force and author of "overhaul." >> g.m. is doing exceptionally well. the entire auto sector is doing exceptionally well. >> reporter: it has been a stunning turnaround for a company just 20 months ago was saved by a controversial government takeover as president obama joked... >> just last week "car & driver" named me auto executive of the year. >> reporter: the government forced g.m. into bankruptcy and a restructuring that cut half of

. >> and with more of the conflict now here is abc 7's laura anthony. there is evacuations from a south korean island two. south korean marines were killed and hundreds sent running to fr their lives. it comes eight months after a south korean war ship went down in the same area. killing 46 sailors. >> i think the big escalation. >> uc berkeley political scientist told abc 7 the latest violence could push them towards the negotiating table its like any war time situation. there is both sides would like to slash their position. >> i think everybody involved is stined by the actions. >> some in the bay area say north korea was provoked by joint south korea, u.s. military exercises on the island. >> and there is in response to something we're doing. >> the attack is front page news. >> this is the reason they did that is that she the want something. >> the editor in chief says readers are sus spishus of motive autos they probably asked for something. then, south korean government said no. and then, boom. >> he says many in the community are unphased by the

abc 7's laura anthony was in the los angeles courtroom when the judge announced mehserle's sentence andhe shares the immediate reaction afterwards. >> i knew what the judge was going to say before he said it. >> johnson said he wasn't surprised mehserle received just two years in state prison for shooting his nephew foo but he was still gravely disappointed. he compared him to michael vick. >> if a man goes to prison killing a dog and he gets four years, then, of course, two years is not enough. >> an attempt, emotional hearing, judge robert perry signalled early that he had serious concerns about a gun enhancement that requires intent on mehserle's part. the judge eventually dismissed it for lack of evidence. >> it's been a sad course of affairs that this young man who never intended to shoot and kill oscar grant has been treated the way he's been treated. >> the judge said he thought the 28-year-old mehserle did not mean to shoot grant after his shock and surprise when the gun went off. they called it weapon confusion but one that required some prison time. grant's mother begged the j

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anthony will correct me if it's not. and i remember -- i serve twice in saudi arabia and most recently in riyadh. when i was in jeddah in the 1990's and our consulate there, the conventional wisdom among the expatriate community was that saudi is were not willing for complex, cultural and social reasons to take entry-level positions, hourly positions in the services industry. i remember when asked a tree at telling me there was a syndrome called sicu, saudi in charge, whereby you had saudi's in senior management position, but not many and junior management positions in virtually none in entry-level or indeed hourly positions. and i think this has been conventional wisdom for some time. so i was very surprised my turn to saudi arabia's public affairs council in 2008 to find so many young saudi is working at starbucks, working in grocery stores. in doing a very good job, being very well integrated into the workplace in which they are saudi and non-saudi colleagues. and i think, you know, i don't want to under -- overstate that trend, but they're certain pragmatism that i've noticed among both the saudi leadership and the saudi popul