[美国广播公司世界新闻(2011-2季)].110401_wn.doc

April 1, 2011 Diane: Tonight on World News, now hiring. More than 200,000 new jobs. Meet the grandmother who learned how to run a forklift. Well tell you who have the jobs and how people are retraining to get them. Bloodbath. They burned the Koran in Florida and it sparks a murder spree in Afghanistan. Tonight, what the pastor behind that Koran-burning says? Heavy tax. The State planning to slap a special fee on obese people? Tonight, the tidal wave of reaction. One side outraged, the other saying its about time. And our inspiring “Person of the Week”. 52, nerves of steel, how she backed off a thousand men to save everyone around her? From ABC News headquarters, this is ABC World News with Diane Sawyer. Diane: Good evening. Welcome to April and we begin tonight with strong new evidence that this country may have turned the corner on jobs. 216,000 Americans went back to work last month, unemployment down to 8.8 percent, the lowest in two years. Of course, millions are still looking for work, but companies are hiring now at the fastest pace in five years. And Matt Gutman is in Sunrise, Florida tonight with some of the people driving that number. Hello, Matt. Reporter: Hello, Diane. Well, Florida has been pummeled by unemployment, the third highest jobless rate in the country. But there are some signs of a turnaround. This is a Bloomingdales outlet, recently open, these workers recently hired. And todays job report gives us a pretty good indicator that these jobs growth will continue. Just four months ago, Sharon Walter was out of work. A victim like so many of the recession. I met somebody and say, “Well, Im unemployed.” It takes something away from you. Reporter: Now shes found work at a Siemens plant in Charlotte, North Carolina. She assembled steam turbine engines, one of 200 skilled workers Siemens trained and then hired this year, taught to do things like driving a forklift and welding. Every morning I get up, I know I have some place to go. I know