U.S. | Wed May 17, 2017 | 11:57am EDT

North Carolina's U.S. Senator Tillis 'fine' after collapse at race

U.S. Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina said in a video message from his hospital bed that he was doing well after getting overheated and collapsing during a charitable road race in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday morning.

Tillis, a Republican, was participating in the ACLI Capital Challenge, a three-mile team race. He said he overheated after running about 2 1/2 miles in the annual event at Anacostia Park.

"I’m fine," he said in the video message posted on Twitter about an hour after his reported collapse.

Some media outlets reported that the 56-year-old had fallen unconscious and that bystanders performed CPR before he was taken away in an ambulance.

Tillis said that was not the case.

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