Promotional film for TAT-Maddux airlines shows shows the route of a Ford Trimotor from Waynoka to Clovis, New Mexico. Passengers disembark from a train and board a Ford Trimotor. Plane taxis along and then takes off. A map shows route from Clovis to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Plane flies over mountains,over Albuquerque and lands at an airport. Women look at Native American Indian wares and enter the terminal. Native American Indian family looks at the plane. Location: Albuquerque New Mexico USA. Date: 1928.

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Tornado producing supercell thunderstorm over a field with wind turbines near Clovis, New Mexico, USA. A supercell thunderstorm is a severe long-lived storm within which the wind speed and direction changes with height. This produces a strong rotating updraft of warm air, known as a mesocyclone, and a separate downdraft of cold air. Tornadoes may form in the mesocyclone, in which case the storm is classified as a tornadic supercell thunderstorm. The storms also produce torrential rain and hail. Video from May 24, 2023.

NATIVES MOVED FROM ATOLL FOR ATOM BOMB TEST. CLOVIS FIELD, NEW MEXICO. CAMERAMAN BOARDS PLANE AIRFIELD CROWDED WITH NEWSMEN

[VOTE 2008 / RICHARDSON TOURS TORNADO DAMAGE] [CLOVIS, NMEX USA] [VOTE 2008 / GOVERNOR BILL RICHARDSON TOURS TORNADO DAMAGE] [CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO] FTG OF NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR BILL RICHARDSON TOURING DAMAGED AREA CAUSED BY TORNADO / VS OF TORNADO AFTERMATH, CLEANING UP, DEMOLISHED HOUSES, DOWNED POWER LINES, METAL OBJECT HANGING FROM POWER LINE, METAL OBJECT HANGING FROM TREE BRANCH 17:17:50 AERIALS OF DAMAGES CAUSED BY TORNADO,, DEMOLISHED HOMES / HOUSES, RUBBLE / DEBRIS ON GROUND 17:28:42 TIGHT SHOT OF RICHARDSON ARRIVING AT AREA OF DESTRUCTION, WALKING TO REDCROSS FOOD TRUCK, GLADHANDING FEMALE RESIDENT OF DAMAGED AREA (W/ VO)

A TORNADO SATURDAY NIGHT CAUSED CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE TO SEVERAL BUSINESSES IN CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO. NO DEATHS OR SERIOUS INJURIES WERE REPORTED. THE TWISTER UPROOTED TELEPHONE POLES, SEPARATED ROOFS FROM BUILDINGS AND SHATTERED GLASS ON HOMES AND BUSINESSES. ALL OF CLOVIS SPENT TWO AND A HALF HOURS IN THE DARK WHILE THE POWER BEFORE THE POWER RESTORED.

Coast To Coast in 48 Hours

Video portrait of a truck driver in his cab.

Video of a truck driver getting into the cab of his truck at sunset.

Made by the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Transcontinental Air Transport Inc., this 1929 black & white educational/promotional film shows "modern" travel from New York, New York to Los Angeles, CA in the breathtaking, hell for leather time of 48 hours. The film features Ford Trimotors and includes appearances by some of the famous aviators of the era Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart, who help assure potential passengers about how safe and comfortable flying can be. The company behind this film, Transcontinental Air Transport (known widely by it initials T-A-T) was founded in 1928 by Clement Melville Keys. In 1930 it merged with Western Air Express to form what later became TWA, or Trans World Airlines. Keys enlisted the help of Charles Lindbergh to design the company's transcontinental network to get government airmail contracts. Lindbergh established numerous airports across the country in this effort, but critics nevertheless derided the expensive service (a one-way ticket from New York to Los Angeles was $352) and the initials "TAT" were said to stand for "Take a Train". The reputation was further sullied when, on September 3, 1929, a westbound TAT flight crashed on Mt. Taylor in New Mexico, with loss of all aboard. It was the first of three serious accidents for TAT over the next five months, and the company lost 2.7 million dollars in its first 18 months of operation. <p><p>Opening titles: Coast to Coast in 48 Hours (:14-1:05). Around a table sits Col. Charles Lindbergh with the leaders of TAT (1:06-2:26). Aerial shot of New York City. Pennsylvania Railroad station, people buy tickets to California. People say goodbye to one another and 'The Airway Limited' train heads out for California. The Airway Limited ran from New York to Indianapolis and connected with the first air leg of the transcontinental rail-air service at Port Columbus. Map shows route: NY to Columbus, OH. Port Columbus. Baggage is weighed and passengers board an airplane. Propellers spin, Ford Trimotor aircraft takes off. City of Columbus, OH is below them (2:27-4:38). Below them from the air, the train they were previously on heads onward down the tracks. First part of the journey is Columbus to Indianapolis, IN. Souvenir maps are looked at on the plane. Plane lands in Indianapolis. Teletype system keeps up with the journey. Next stop is St. Louis, MO. Plane flies onward. Plane lands in St. Louis. People head inside to keep warm (4:39-6:28). Plane motors are checked by Charles Lindbergh and others inside a factory. Engines start up. Mechanics work on the plane. Passengers board. Plane heads from St. Louis to Kansas City, MO. Pilots review the weather report. Lunch is served on the plane. People eat and drink. (The TAT service was one of the first to offer meals, provided by the Fred Harvey Company.) Aerial shot of Kansas City. After Kansas City, onward to Wichita, KS (6:29-8:50). Pilot radios Wichita and reports his position. Pilots talk to one another (8:51-10:15). Charles Lindbergh flies by to check on the status of the flight. Wichita, KS. Waynoka, OK is the next stop. Passengers exit the plane. Travelers eat dinner. They take the Santa Fe Railway. Morning finds the train in Clovis, NM. The passengers and pilots board the plane in Clovis (10:16-11:58). Plane takes off. Next stop is Albuquerque, NM. Plane flies over Albuquerque. Native Americans at the Albuquerque Airport. Travelers look at the wares being sold by the Indians. Travelers relax while Native Americans examine the plane (11:59-13:43). Travelers are back on the plane and in the air. Winslow, AZ is the next stop, over mountains and through clouds. Painted Desert and Petrified Forest. Plane on the ground in Winslow. The next stop is Kingman, AZ. Plane flies toward Kingman and over a meteor crater (13:44-15:22). Plane lands in Kingman, AZ. Passengers board and head for Los Angeles, CA. Passing over the Colorado River and the Mojave Desert (15:23-17:05). Passing over Los Angeles,CA, the plane starts to get lower. Los Angeles City Hall. A man announces a plane is arriving from NYC. Plane lands in Los Angeles, CA. Travelers exit the plane. Jack Maddux, the President of T.A.T.-Maddux Airlines, is one of the passengers, he meets Amelia Earhart. Map of the United States, train cars, planes, Charles Lindbergh sums up the journey (17:06-19:52). End credits (19:53-19:59). <p> <p>This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com

&lt;p>https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/10/05/oldest-human-footprint-americas-white-sands/&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>Dozens of awe-inspiring ancient footprints left on the shores of an ice age lake have reignited a long-running debate about when the first people arrived in the Americas.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>Two years ago, a team of scientists came to the conclusion that human tracks sunk into the mud in White Sands National Park in New Mexico were more than 21,000 years old. The provocative finding threatened the dominant thinking on when and how people migrated into the Americas. Soon afterward, a technical debate erupted about the method used to estimate the age of the tracks, which relied on an analysis of plant seeds embedded with the footprints.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>Now, a study published in the journal Science confirms the initial finding with two new lines of evidence: thousands of grains of pollen and an analysis of quartz crystals in the sediments.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>“It’s more or less a master class in how you do this,” said Edward Jolie, an anthropological archaeologist at the University of Arizona who has studied the White Sands footprints in the field but was not involved in the new study. “As Carl Sagan said, ‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.’ They have some extraordinary evidence.”&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, a fellow at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, said that the results support her modeling work, which suggested that people first crossed into present-day North America before 29,000 years ago, possibly traveling via the ocean.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>“If anything, early findings like the White Sands footprints should inspire further scientific investigation in what is a dynamic and changing field,” Becerra-Valdivia said.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>Some critics who raised concerns about the initial study said that they were encouraged by the follow-up analyses but remained unconvinced.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>“I don’t agree that it resolved the issue of the timing, but they have made progress,” said Loren Davis, an anthropologist at Oregon State University. “Knowing the age of this is important, because if these researchers are correct and people are truly in New Mexico at 23,000 years ago, or even 21,000 years ago, it means we have to change our fundamental understanding of some things.”&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>A snapshot of life in the Pleistocene&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>Fossil footprints were first seen in New Mexico’s Tularosa Basin in the early 1930s and were initially thought to be evidence of a bigfoot, said David F. Bustos, a resource program manager at White Sands National Park. They turned out to be from a giant ground sloth, a 2,000-pound mammal that went extinct around 10,000 years ago. Researchers also found tracks from trudging mammoths, a dire wolf and other ice age creatures.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>Bustos said he first saw fossilized footprints in the basin that looked human in 2009, and a growing team of scientists began to study them. Those tracks brought to life a vivid snapshot of the Pleistocene, the epoch that started 2.6 million years ago and ended 11,700 years ago.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>The thousands of footprints found in White Sands are an extraordinary but evanescent record of life around Lake Otero, the body of water that rested inside the basin during the Pleistocene. The ancient tracks are the remnants of complex interactions. Children played. Humans stalked giant sloths. A person walked a mile, carrying a child and placing them down occasionally. But the fossilized prints are slowly being destroyed by erosion — they are so soft they can be cut with a butter knife.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>“It was hard to believe that humans could be walking along with the mammoth prints nearby, and that the prints could be of the same age,” Bustos said.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>To place these interactions in time, Kathleen Springer and Jeffrey Pigati, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey who typically spend their time studying the paleoclimate, joined the team of scientists working on the prints.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>They began the work in January 2020, taking samples of seeds from an aquatic plant called ditchgrass that was interspersed with the footprints. Using careful geologic studies and radiocarbon dating, they got an astonishing result: The prints were 21,000 to 23,000 years old.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>“It was kind of a big deal and earth-shattering and rocked the world of the archaeologists,” Springer said.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>For decades, experts believed the first people in the Americas migrated from Siberia across the Bering Strait on a land bridge exposed during the last glacial maximum, sometime between 26,500 and 19,000 years ago. The land bridge was then submerged as ice sheets melted around 13,000 years ago. These people, the thinking went, developed the 13,000-year-old Clovis culture in New Mexico, which was characterized by the use of distinctive stone points.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>In recent decades, archaeologists have found evidence that disrupts this “Clovis First” hypothesis. But the thinking that has continued to dominate the field is that people’s travel into the Americas would have been blocked by ice sheets, making much earlier arrivals over land unlikely.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>The White Sands footprints, which appear to have been made during the last glacial maximum, would require a radical rethinking of long-standing assumptions about how people got here — one that has been welcomed by some scholars and rejected by others.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>For many Indigenous people, the study is simply a confirmation of things they already knew from knowledge passed down over generations, said Kim Pasqual-Charlie, a member of the Pueblo of Acoma who has visited the site many times.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>“These are our ancestral footprints,” Pasqual-Charlie said.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>Paulette Steeves, an Indigenous archaeologist and a professor at Algoma University, has compiled a database of the evidence for earlier human presence in the Americas. She said that the White Sands find is only one strand in a growing body of evidence that people were in the Americas much earlier than archaeologists long believed.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>“Think about the rest of the world [and] how much our understanding of human evolution has grown and been informed due to more archaeological work in the advancement of sciences. However, in the Americas, it has remained static,” Steeves said. “When it comes to adding Indigenous voices and expanding the time frame for Indigenous peoples in the Americas, there is still a lot of racism and bias in American archaeology.”&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>But there was a known problem with dating a site using ditchgrass seeds. Because ditchgrass is an aquatic plant, it takes in carbon dissolved in the water during photosynthesis. That could include older sources of carbon that can make the seeds look artificially old. Oregon State’s Davis worked with a team that took ditchgrass samples from 1947 and analyzed them using radiocarbon dating. The results suggested the plants were 7,400 years older than they were.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>So he and other scientists asked for additional lines of evidence.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>“You’re talking about a potential paradigm shift regarding the peopling of North America,” said David Rachal, a geoarchaeology consultant who was also critical of the original study and remains skeptical of the new one. “We have good models to say when people showed up and got on the scene. If it pushes back, it will upset everything we think we know.”&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>Analyzing ancient pine pollen and crystals of quartz&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>Springer and Pigati were keenly aware of the shortcomings of ditchgrass as a dating method and had always planned to see whether other streams of evidence supported their initial study.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>For the follow-up, they gathered ancient pollen from coniferous trees that was embedded around the footprints. This type of material would not have the same problem as aquatic plants, because trees take carbon from the atmosphere. They also used a technique called “optically stimulated luminescence” to measure the energy built up in crystals of quartz within the White Sands sediments. This method allowed them to calculate the last time the mud that contains the footprints was exposed to sunlight or heat.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>The pollen study was an arduous undertaking, requiring scientists in four laboratories scattered across the United States to work together to prepare and analyze the age of 75,000 grains of pollen. Using radiocarbon dating, they found the pollen from conifer trees dated to 22,600 to 23,400 years ago, matching their first results.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>Their study of the quartz crystals showed they were 21,500 years old, give or take 2,000 years.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>“I think that this study is so far the most convincing evidence of early human presence in the Americas,” said Bente Philippsen, leader of the National Laboratory for Age Determination at Norwegian University of Science and Technology.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>Others raised technical questions about the methods and sampling. Rachal said it was possible that the pollen was “reworked,” meaning that older pollen could have gotten into the samples. Davis said he was glad to see the quartz crystal analysis but wanted to see more samples taken from different layers.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>Springer and Pigati argued that their evidence is solid, and they will continue to work at the site.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>“It didn’t bother me at first, but it’s starting to really nudge at me, I guess you could say,” said Pasqual-Charlie, of the Pueblo of Acoma. “How much more evidence do you need to say: We did exist back then. We’ve been in the Southwest region for a very long time.”&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>Jolie, of the University of Arizona, said that a debate about the dating methods may continue back and forth for years — and that is part of how science moves forward. But he added that for him, as a scientist and a person with mixed Oglala Lakota and Hodulgee Muscogee ancestry, the site brings to life a crucial period of human history that had been off limits, erased by the passage of time and the changing landscape.&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>“It’s a fun way to think about a shared common past for a lot of Native people,” Jolie said. “You can visualize little kids splashing in the mud. There’s nothing quite like seeing that little toddler footprint in the sand.”&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;b>--TEASE--&lt;/b>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;b>--SUPERS&lt;/b>--&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>National Park Service&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;b>--VIDEO SHOWS&lt;/b>--&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;b>--LEAD IN&lt;/b>--&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;b>--VO SCRIPT&lt;/b>--&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;b>--SOT&lt;/b>--&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;b>--TAG&lt;/b>--&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;b>--REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS&lt;/b>--&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----&lt;/b>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;b>--KEYWORD TAGS--&lt;/b>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;b>--MUSIC INFO---&lt;/b>&lt;/p>\n&lt;p>&lt;/p>

PILOT LESS B-17 PLANE THAT WILL FLY THROUGH BOMB AREA IS TESTED IN CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO WITH REMOTE CONTROL. VARIOUS SHOTS PILOT LESS PLANE TAKING OFF AND FLYING WITHOUT PILOT OR CO-PILOT.

[VOTE 2008 / RICHARDSON TOURS TORNADO DAMAGE] [CLOVIS, NMEX USA] [VOTE 2008 / GOVERNOR BILL RICHARDSON TOURS TORNADO DAMAGE] [CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO] FTG OF NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR BILL RICHARDSON TOURING DAMAGED AREA CAUSED BY TORNADO / VS OF TORNADO AFTERMATH, CLEANING UP, DEMOLISHED HOUSES, DOWNED POWER LINES, METAL OBJECT HANGING FROM POWER LINE, METAL OBJECT HANGING FROM TREE BRANCH 17:17:50 AERIALS OF DAMAGES CAUSED BY TORNADO,, DEMOLISHED HOMES / HOUSES, RUBBLE / DEBRIS ON GROUND 17:28:42 TIGHT SHOT OF RICHARDSON ARRIVING AT AREA OF DESTRUCTION, WALKING TO REDCROSS FOOD TRUCK, GLADHANDING FEMALE RESIDENT OF DAMAGED AREA (W/ VO)

A squadron of EF-111's left Cannon Air Force Base in Clovis, New Mexico today for their 32nd and final mission. Destination--the Persian Gulf. The EF-111's are tactical radar jamming airplanes. They will be used in support of ground troops in the no fly-zones in Iraq. Seventy-five airmen stationed at Cannon Air Force Base are preparing for the worse. Family and friends saw the squad off about an hour ago as they prepared to board a plane headed for the Middle East.End

COAST TO COAST IN 48 HOURS

NAME: US TORNADOES 2 20070326I TAPE: EF07/0362 IN_TIME: 11:05:09:14 DURATION: 00:01:44:23 SOURCES: ABC DATELINE: Clovis, 25 March 2007 RESTRICTIONS: No Access NAmerica/internet SHOTLIST: 1. Various aerials of damaged houses 2. Aerial of overturned truck 3. Residents standing near overturned truck and debris 4. Close up of residents near overturned truck 5. Governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, walking down street with residents 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico: "Look at these homes. This man is lucky that he's got insurance. But a majority of the damaged homes don't have insurance. So, we got to move rapidly." 7. Richardson in resident's home 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico: "The priority is first to get the community back to its feet. But also, get the Federal Government, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), to help us. Now, it's not always a done deal with FEMA, so we're going to push very hard because you have to meet certain thresholds." 9. Wide of debris 10. Mid of residents clearing up debris 11. Damaged car 12. Wide of debris STORYLINE: A series of tornadoes swept through eastern New Mexico on Friday night and Saturday morning, damaging homes, roads and public infrastructure. The towns of Clovis and Logan suffered the worst damage according to police, as tornadoes annihilated homes and businesses. The governor of New Mexico declared a state of disaster for three counties affected by tornadoes. Governor Bill Richardson's executive order will free up as much as 750-thousand US dollars in-state emergency funds for Curry, Quay and Roosevelt counties. "A majority of the damaged homes don't have insurance. So, we got to move rapidly," Richardson said. "The priority is first to get the community back to its feet. But also, get the Federal Government, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), to help us. Now, it's not always a done deal with FEMA, so we're going to push very hard because you have to meet certain thresholds," he added. Power lines and trucks were toppled and several people injured. In Clovis, one tornado is said to have cut a five kilometre long path of damage. Nearly three-thousand people were without power in Clovis, officials say it could be two to three days before electricity is restored. Initial assessments show 458 homes were damaged in the city of Clovis and 55 in Logan. Numerous businesses also sustained damage as a result of the storms.

REACTION FROM SMALL TOWN WHERE LITTLE BOY NAMED MATTHEW ROBERTS WAS FOUND DEAD AFTER BEING MISSING FOR TWO WEEKS.

RESIDENTS ARE CLEANING UP IN CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO AFTER THUNDERSTORMS DUMP HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE EAST-CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE.

NAME: US BABY 2 20070311I TAPE: EF07/0299 IN_TIME: 10:25:52:08 DURATION: 00:02:33:07 SOURCES: see script DATELINE: Clovis, 11 March 2007 RESTRICTIONS: see script SHOTLIST: LUBBOCK POLICE DEPARTMENT and LUBBOCK COVENANT HOSPITAL VIDEO 1. Various of hospital surveillance video showing suspect walking in hospital prior to abduction ABC - no Access NAmerica/Internet 2. Set-up shot of Lieutenant Scott Hudgens 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Scott Hudgens, Lubbock Police Lieutenant: "About midnight last night investigators received a tip here at Lubbock PD (police department), that a female matching the suspect's description was in Clovis, New Mexico. Our investigators contacted the Clovis, New Mexico police department and they initiated an investigation at that time. Clovis PD located baby Mychael at a residence there in Clovis in the company of an adult female. Through their investigation they determined where the suspect was and were able to locate her. They took her into custody and took her to the police department for questioning at that time." KJTV - no Access NAmerica/Internet 4. STILL: photograph of abducted baby Mychael ABC - no Access NAmerica/Internet 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gwen Stafford, Covenant Health System Vice President: "This individual was pretty sophisticated or at least knowledgeable of what happens in health-care institutions. We're not going to rest until we take it up a notch and another level. I don't know if we can ever have anything perfect, but the system functioned. The baby was separated from that (security device) and we're all in the process of that with the police department. We've just got to do better, not only this hospital, but all hospitals in this world today." 6. Exterior of Covenant Hospital 7. Close-up of sign reading: "Covenant Medical Center Lakeside" 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gwen Stafford, Covenant Health System Vice President: "This has been a roller coaster of emotions. Today there's not many happy stories. This is certainly one in Lubbock, Texas. And all of you, and for all of your professionalism, for the public's help and for the courtesy and genuine efforts of the media, I am indeed very grateful. It's a joyous time. Baby Mychael is on her way to Lubbock and will soon be reunited with her mommy at Covenant. The mommy has requested her privacy for right now to be with the little one." LUBBOCK POLICE DEPARTMENT and LUBBOCK COVENANT HOSPITAL VIDEO 9. Various of hospital surveillance video showing suspect walking in hospital at time of abduction STORYLINE: A newborn baby kidnapped from a Texas hospital by a woman posing as a medical worker was found safe early on Sunday in a New Mexico hospital, police said. Four-day-old Mychael Darthard-Dawodu was in good condition in the city of Clovis, about 100 miles (161 kilometres) northwest of Lubbock, and transportation was being arranged to return the baby to Texas, said Lubbock police Lieutenant Scott Hudgens. "About midnight last night investigators received a tip here at Lubbock PD (police department), that a female matching the suspect's description was in Clovis, New Mexico. Our investigators contacted the Clovis, New Mexico police department and they initiated an investigation at that time," Hudgens said. "They determined where the suspect was and were able to locate her. They took her into custody and took her to the police department for questioning at that time." The five-pound (2.3 kilogram) infant was taken early on Saturday by a woman who was seen on a surveillance video walking out of Covenant Lakeside Hospital with the baby hidden away in her purse. The disappearance sparked a manhunt and public alerts in Texas and New Mexico, resulting in tips from all around the country. Covenant Health System Vice President Gwen Stafford said the FBI was interviewing a suspect, adding that the baby's parents were notified of the recovery. "This individual was pretty sophisticated or at least knowledgeable of what happens in health-care institutions. We're not going to rest until we can take it up a notch and another level," Stafford said. She said there was an investigation into why the baby was separated from the security device. Hospital surveillance footage showed a woman wearing blue and flower-print hospital scrubs and a gray, puffy jacket with a hood walking out of the hospital around 01:20 am (0720 GMT) on Saturday. U She fled in a red pickup truck, possibly with a male accomplice, police said. Lubbock police had contacted authorities in Clovis after receiving a tip that a person matching the woman's description was seen in that city. The abductor had gone into Mychael's mother's room several times before the baby was taken, telling her the baby needed tests, Stafford said. Stafford said she did not know why the kidnapper took the baby to the Clovis hospital. The child was suffering from jaundice, a common complication in newborns in which a build-up of pigment in the blood causes a yellowing of the skin.

A tornado brews in a large cloud formation with lightning over a grassy plain near Clovis, New Mexico.