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>>> THERE'S A BREAKING NEWS
HAPPENING, VERY DISTURBING
INFORMATION COMING IN, REPORTS
WE'RE GETTING OF A MAN WHO MAY
HAVE SET HIMSELF ON FIRE HERE IN
WASHINGTON ON THE NATIONAL MALL.
LET'S GO STRAIGHT TO BRIAN TODD.
HE'S GOT THE LATEST.
WHAT HAPPENED, BRIAN?
>> Reporter: WELL, WE WERE JUST
DOWN HERE ON THE NATIONAL MALL
AND WE WERE DIVERTED TO AN AREA
NEAR THE AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM.
PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH
WASHINGTON, MAY NOT KNOW EXACTLY
WHERE THAT IS BUT IT'S IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE MALL.
PEOPLE HAVE TOLD US THEY HAD
REPORTS OF A MAN ON FIRE.
IT IS UNCLEAR IF HE SET HIMSELF
ON FIRE OR WHETHER HE WAS SET ON
FIRE BY OTHER MEANS, BUT HE WAS
AIRLIFTED OUT.
HE WAS APPARENTLY EXPERIENCES
SERIOUS INJURIES.
WE GOT THERE IN TIME TO SEE
POLICE AND EMTs AIRLIFTING HIM
OUT, AND THAT'S WHAT WE KNOW
NOW.
THAT A MAN APPARENTLY WAS ON
FIRE NEAR THE AIR AND SPACE
MUSEUM, RIGHT NEAR THE MIDDLE OF
THE MALL WHERE WE OBSERVED
POLICE AND EMTs AND A CHOPPER
THERE TO GET HIM OUT OF THERE.
AGAIN, UNCLEAR, ACCORDING TO
POLICE, WHETHER HE SET HIMSELF
ON FIRE OR WHETHER HE WAS LIT ON
FIRE BY OTHER MEANS.
>> INFORMATION ON THE CONDITION
OF THIS MAN RIGHT NOW?
>> Reporter: THAT'S NOT CLEAR AT
THIS TIME.
WE WERE LITERALLY THERE ABOUT
FIVE MINUTES AGO, MAYBE TEN