police officers vicki thomas joins us now from south florida. officer thomas, nice so see you. thank you. >> tothank you for having me. >> had to be a powerful moment for you. >> it's been life-changing. >> tell me how? >> well, jessica has a job with -- that has thrilled me so much. the public, i'm so very, very thankful for all your support, your kind words, for myself and for jess camp it's just been overwhelming. >> you know, i feel you, that you can't just let some kid goes hungry when you know they don't have anything. i know south florida pretty well and there are lot of organizations willing and able to help people like her, and i'm guessing as an officer of the law, with a duty to the citizens, you might have had some mixed emotions. no? >> yes, i did. i told her about the food bank, but -- that she had other options other than shoplifting because shoplifting is a crime. but the food banks would not have been open and the children were hungry that night so i had to act. >> how did she react? i saw her tearing up there in the video clip. >> the same that night when i wa

instead of hauling the woman off to jail, the ma'am dade police officer vicki thomas bought the singleor her family. >> arresting her wasn't going to solve the problem with her children being hungry, so i went in and bought her some groceries. >> $100 worth of groceries. >> yes. to see her go through the bags when we brought them in, it was like christmas and that $100 for me was worth millions. >> reporter: thomas says she asked the woman to pay it forward when she gets back on her feet. to serve and protect indeed. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," starbucks ceo howard schultz. i'm anne-marie green. ask your doctor and visit airoptix.com for safety information and a free one-month trial. ♪ ♪ ♪ i've got a big date, but my sinuses are acting up. it's time for advil cold and sinus. [ male announcer ] truth is that won't relieve all your symptoms. new alka seltzer plus-d relieves more sinus symptoms than any other behind the counter liquid gel. >>> 4 minutes before 5:00 on this wednesday morning. you're waking up to clouds. marty is over at first warning weather >>>

when vicki thomas heard that a young mother had confessed she had stolen a cart of food, she paid for the groceries out of her own pocket. and gave her a ride back in her police cruiser, where he three children were waiting. >> asking for food. >> the only thing i asked of her, when she gets on her feet, that she help someone else out. and she said she would. >> wow. thomas said when she heard the woman's story, her own grandchildren flashed before her eyes. and she you what she had to do. nice to see that compassion. >>> time, now, for sports. game one of the world series in the books. >> this one was never even close. here's neil and stan at espn with all the highlights. >> welcome to our "sportscenter" studios here in los angeles. i'm stan verrett. this is neil everett. world series time. >> give me a fenway frank and game one highlights from boston. david ortiz, if you don't believe me. getting his mind in the right place. putting his bat in the wrong place. not ready for prime time. he was looking at the feet. the other fellas said, you missed it. you missed it. you missed it. an

when vicki thomas heard a young mother confessed she had stolen a cart of food because her kids were hungry, thomas paid for the groceries out of her pocket and then gave the woman a ride back home in the police cruiser where three children were waiting. >> my brothers are hungry. we tell them there is nothing here. >> the only thing i asked is when she get on her feet she help someone else out and she said she would. >> thomas said when she heard the woman's story, her own grandchildren flashed before her eyes and she knew what she had to do. nice to see -- especially after the last story, some compassion. >> from a police officer, absolutely. >>> moving on to a baseball game. game one of the world series in the books. not the cardinals best night to put it mildly. bottom of the first, the red sox put three on the board thanks to a bases clearing double. look at that. boom! >> very nice. in the second, david ortiz hit one to right. but the cards carlos beltran robbed him of a home run. beltrand went to the hospital with a rib injury after that. by that point it was 5-0 boston it. >>

a female officer named vickie thomas stopped jessica robls as we walked out after a greshry store with asked you, do you have food at the house and i looked at her. and i told her no, i don't. >> she did charge robles with a misdemeanor but also bought the woman $100 worth of groceries. the only condition the officer set, once robles gets on her feet, the officer wants her to pay it forward to someone else. something else, isn't it? a knucklehead move or what? a former boy scout leader pushes over an ancient boulder in a state park in utah. you've seen the video. please. he says it was loose. and that it had to fall anyway. i don't know why all the cheering. glen taylor has been booted by the boy scouts. we've found out in the september, he launched a disability lawsuit saying he suffered serious and permanent debilitating injuries from a 4-year-old car crash. the woman involved in that accident says she hopes this lawsuit will now go away because i don't know, the proof might be in the video. some little kid wasn't walking down there, and that was, i don't know, a few million years ol

for vicky thomas, it's a moment to be proud of her heritage. >> i'm glad. i think it's one more part of recognizing maori as being the indigenous people of new zealand and we'll ibiculture country. >> english sailor james cook used maori names when he charted the islands in the 1700s. later they were described by the location north and south. >> already it's part of maorian history they're part of the european history, because captain james cook was the first person to take the names from those islands and put them down in writing. >> reporter: for the last few decades they've been fighting for the survival and recognition of their language. the formal adoption of these names is seen as another step towards this. for leaders, it's another reinforcement of maori status. >> it's a part of they are recognition of maori and people of the state. we aren't going anywhere, and again, along with their countrymen and women, this will hopefully add to bringing us together as a nation. >> reporter: new zealand has always tried to encourage the use of both languages, a

miami-dade police officer vicki thomas then went in and bought her grocery. >> she came out and helped you even had food at the house and i looked at her -- and her face and i told her no. i don't. >> i made the decision to buy her some groceries because arresting her wasn't going to solve the problem of her children being hungry so i bought her some groceries. >> she bought $100 worth of food. >>> country singer dolly parton is recovering after she was in a fender-bender in nashville. police say parton was sitting in the front seat of an suv when a car ran an intersection and hit her. she was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. she is expected to be okay though. she later tweeted about the crash saying she was sore and resting at home. >>> singer cee lo green won't be charged with sexual assault but the coach of the tv the voice is facing charges. the l.a. district attorney accuses him of slipping ecstasy to a female dinner companion in july. green pled not guilty back in court in november. >>> justin bieber fan has gone to extraordinary lengths to make himself look like his id

officer vicki thomas joins us now. officer, can you hear us?here. >> no, the pleasure is ours. do you know what you did, officer? do you know what you did here? do you know what's happening now? do you take responsibility? >> yes, i do. i didn't know what was going to happen when i did it. i did it just because i needed to. >> now explain that to us. because there was the shoplifting, you had the crime, you had what you were supposed to do procedurally but then something else happened. why? >> she touched me. when i asked her why she did it, and she said she needed to feed her children, i could relate. i was a single mom and without the help of my family, that could have been me. and so i needed to do my job, but i also needed to help her. >> and what did it mean to you when you went in there and got those groceries and knew what they meant to that family, those kids? >> at the time, i didn't know exactly, because i hadn't met her children until a little bit later. i knew that i needed to feed her and i bought enough groceries that would last h

this is officer vickie thomas called to a supermarket not far from bhamiami. found 300 dollars worth of grocery that the woman had not paid for. thomas stopped her and asked the question, why? that is when robless admitted her three children were hungry and she had no other choice to steal. >> she came out and asked you do you even have food at the house? and i looked at her, you know, her face and i told her no, i don't. >> i made the decision to buy her some groceries because arresting her wasn't going to solve the problem with her children being hoirungry so i w in and bought her some groceries. >> a hundred dollars worth of groceries? >> yes, a hundred dollars. >> that officer showing a tremendous amount of humanitity. robles will have to appear in court and promises suns she finds work and back on her feet she will help someone else out just like officer thomas helped her. the beautiful thing when you can help someone and they can pay it forward. >> compassion goes very far. she's not getting off easy. she is facing the charges in court. >> her children w

when vicky thomas heard that a young mother confessed that she had stolen a cart full of food becauseries out of her very only pocket and then she gave the woman a ride back home in the police cruiser where three whirn were waiting. >> they're hungry. there's nothing here. >> the only thing i ask of her is that when she gets on her feet, that she help someone else out, and she said she would. >> thomas said when she heard the woman's story, her own grandchildren flashed before her eyes and she knew what she had to do. it's nice to see especially after that last story some compassion. >> yes, for a police officer, absolutely. >>> moving on to baseball. game one of the world series in the books. note the cardinals best night to put it mildly. bottom of the first, the red sox put three on the board thanks to a base hit double. look at that, boom. >> very nice. in the second, david ortiz hit one to right, but the cards, carlos beltran, robbed him of a home run. he went to the hospital with a rib injury. by that time it was 5-0. it was eight zil before he got a run in the ninth. no drama h

susan adams, [inaudible], felicia aran, douglas morgan, vicki tiernan, beverly albrecht, thomas group, lindsay [inaudible] and margaret writer. go ahead >> thank you very much for having this meeting. i come here representing myself, a senior citizen. 68 years old going to be 69 next week. basically, the way i'm being fit and healthy is important to make his will expand my life and quality of my life. one of those things is walking up the hill the 600 foot hill about 6 or 700 feet. i do it with my dog. my dog is my child. my partner and i have a dog named sally. i rest my case. she's like my child. walking with her on a leash doesn't do it for me. i cannot get the kind of exercise i need to get. so, i read this thing from the recreation federal government, and 4 years ago it's the same thing. just rehashed over and over. we have some very disingenuous statistics at him. they continue to say 11% of the infinite incidents are dog related. when you actually look at them almost 50% of those incidents are giving tickets to people for not having their leash which is kind of like a circular

vickie thomas, 20-year veteran, made the decision not to arrest her only after seeing she had this cleann that about what you do with a job versus responsibility? >> cutting people a little slack and kind of walking in their shoes and understanding what they're going through. >> and showing tremendous compassion to the kids, too, to treat the parent with respect but also making her face the consequences. >> she didn't just let her go. >> no, no. >> she bought them groceries. >> yeah. >> paying it forward. that's good. good stuff. >>> that's it for us, which means it's time for carol costello. good morning, carol. >> good morning. thanks so much. have a great day. "newsroom" starts now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> and good morning, i'm carol costello. thank you so much for being with me. we do begin with breaking news. a new measure of the economy and more proof that we are still bogged down in a sluggish economy. minutes ago, feds released a september jobs report. unemployment dipped slightly to 7.2%, about 148,000 jobs were created. that's fewer jobs than expected and ju

vicki. >> the national final. the screen throwers by rachel couchner. the lowlands. the good lord by james mcbride. leading edge by thomasd unique among all the authors. >> he's the only that won the national book before. he will join john up sight and a handful of others who won this award. >> so now johnny deutsch's favorite category is poetry. >> i was reading with johnny in a moment. >> the national book award finalistings for poetry are the big smoke. >> wow. and finally young people's littiature. >> in young people's literature, the national book award finalists are, boxes and tape. the true blue self of sugar man's swamp. far, far away by tom mcneill. >> being a child at heart and mind, this is the first graphic novel that ever has been nominated this author was a finalist for the second time and if it it does win, it will be the first time. >> from the christian. >> wow. it was the only short story collection nominated for the national books. today's short story. >> thank you very much for that. >> so anything stand out to you? that either surprised you or you saw they were on the finals here? >> you were seeing