Straight from WUSA9’s 5 p.m. broadcast, Bruce Johnson reports that Marion Barry says he needs a kidney transplant. “I was just distracted, to be frank with you,” Barry said of his failure to file his 2007 tax returns. The risk of jail time “wasn’t an issue” in Barry’s mind, he said, since the last time this came up, a judge threw out prosecutors’s request to imprison the Ward 8 Council member for violating his parole. Johnson promised to follow up on Barry’s health problems. Kidney failure can be caused by a number of medical conditions. UPDATE: The 72-year-old Barry confirms in additional footage that his kidney failure is the result of his diabetes. A donor has been reportedly found, and Barry is awaiting a date for the surgery.