'Forty years I've been waiting': Tear-jerking moment adopted man is reunited with his mother who gave him up as a baby because she could not support him

 This is the emotional moment a man breaks down in tears as he is reunited with his birth mother after 'waiting forty years' to find her.

Tobayi Howton, from New York City, first began searching for his biological mother in 1982 after finding out that she had given him up for adoption at birth because she was not able to financially support him. 

After finally tracing her, Mr Howton flew more than 2,000 miles to San Diego where he was reunited with Thomasette Cox and the pair shared an emotional embrace.

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Tobayi Howton, who is in his 50s, travelled over 2,000 miles from New York City to San Diego to meet his biological mother, Thomasette Cox

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Mr Howton later filmed himself and his mother taking their first walk together in San Diego

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Emotional footage, filmed on September 4, shows Mr Howton breaking down in tears as he and Miss Cox shared a loving embrace outside her home. He said he had spent 'forty years' waiting for that moment

He is heard saying: 'Just landed. About to take the next step for the rest of my life. Kind of like a dream come true.'

The video then cuts to Mr Howton arriving at his mother's front door. 

Pointing to her house, he says: 'This is Mom's house. Forty years I've been waiting for this.'