i like her eyes and her freckles and her hair. reporter: misha is an 8-year-old from wisconsin who loves playing with dolls. show me your dolls. reporter: especially this doll, yvette. it s one of the first bi-racial american girl dolls on the market. i asked her when she does go to a normal store what is the majority of the dolls that she sees versus yvette and just kind of explaining to her now that a lot of the brands that she envoys are now having a wider range of dolls that look like everyone. reporter: it s representation that misha s more didn t have as a kid growing up in the midwest. you didn t see dolls with brown skin. you didn t see a lot of curly-haired dolls. they all were kind of the typical blondes or brown hair. reporter: american girl approached children s author sharon dennis wyatt with an idea
for a story to accompany yvette. my editor, she emailed me and said we re interested in having creating a bi-racial doll. she will be an environmentalist. reporter: wyatt grew up in an interracial family in the ancosta neighborhood of washington, d.c. i wanted to incorporate the theme of racial identity because for me that was something that i had been exploring i think unconsciously almost from the time i was able to talk. reporter: for over three decades she made it her mission to feature children of color in her stories. i think all children should be able to read books where they can see themselves reflected in some way in the book and the same with toys, the same with dolls with somebody like event. she hopes her books provide a safe space for otherwise difficult conversations. it s a medium for sharing things that trouble us. it s a medium for discussing things with parents perhaps.
stop and see today. the moment when a tsa officer saves the day. officer ceceria morales leaping out a luggage conveyor belt when a mother finds her 2-month-old baby not breathing. she performed the heimlich on the baby and while we learned she s performed the heimlich many times before this was the first time morales had to use it on the infant. thank god. the baby is doing well. remarkable people doing remarkable things every day. now to a very special gift this holiday season. we want you to meet yvette, she s the newest american girl doll and is making history as one of the iconic brands first bi-racial dolls giving many more boys and girls a chance to be seen. cnn s renee marsh has the story.
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