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on georgetown's university at yates fieldhouse. it is passed the building you are looking at, passed georgetown university hospital. fire officials say a man fell down a ventilation shaft at the fieldhouse, fell about 15 to 20 feet and trapped and injured. laying at the bottom of that shaft. rescue crews dropped paramedics down to tend to him and crews worked on getting him out. we understand it took about 15 minutes in all. he was transported by helicopter to an area trauma center. i'm told he was considered priority one and serious and potentially life-threatening injuries. as soon...

wedding. but he didn't show. saturday night, he called his father to explain why. >> told me that the reason he didn't come around here because he was robbed, they beat him up. and they did everything to him. but he was okay. he made it. i said, well, did you go to the hospital? no, dad, i didn't have to go to the hospital. so -- >> reporter: and then the next day you find out he's dead. >> yeah. >> reporter: now to the d.c. office of consumer and regulatory affairs. glen scarborough, well-known here. >> he would come down here and pull permits with us. and just joke around with us a...

Me. the images that you're showing are awesome in their destructiveness and they should bring fear to anybody. so, there is fear there. it's not saying it is not there. it's just continuing on life as is possible. and the people up in the north, in the devastation that's up there, i can't make sense of it, and i'm just fortunate to be as lucky as i am. >> well, join the club. it's hard to make sense of anything that's happened up there, and i'm sure people are trying to get their heads around where their lives go from here as well. but david abraham, i'm glad you're safe, glad the last 24 hour...

lost their cooling functions in the aftermath of an active earthquake and tsunami. meanwhile, massive vacs are underway for a 12 mile radius around those nuclear plants. more than 200,000 residents have been forced to leave their homes. one japanese official says nine people have already tested positive for high radiation levels on their skin and clothing. the number of dead continues to climb. officials say at least 1,200 people now have died. however, that number is expected to rise and potentially dramatically. we are getting new and dramatic images this morning from one of the ...

prefecture alone. let's go live again to our london bureau where nbc's tazeen ahmed is keeping an eye on the developments. what is the latest you're hearing, especially relative to the nuclear plants? >> reporter: good morning, alex. the government's trying to keep this disaster from getting worse. that's their key concern. they're desperately trying to keep temperatures down at the second nuclear reactor number three. the cooling function is not working and there is concern of overheating and a new threat of explosion there it comes after a blast yesterday at the same plant, fukushi...