Below is a partial transcript of a live interview with William Rodriguez by CNN’s Aaron Brown on 9/11/2001, beginning at 1:30 PM EDT.
BROWN: William Rodriguez is a maintenance worker at the Trade Center, I believe,in any case,he is on the phone with us now. Mr. Rodriguez, can you hear me?
RODRIGUEZ: Yes, I can hear you clearly.
BROWN: Tell me where you were when,…what, which of the two buildings were you in?
RODRIGUEZ:I work in Building One, the one that got hit the first time.
BROWN: Tell me what happened.
RODRIGUEZ: I was in the basement which is a support floor for the maintenance company and we hear like a big rumble, not like an impact, like a rumble, like something, like moving furniture on a, on a massive way and all of a sudden we hear another rumble and a guy comes running, running into our office and all his skin was off his body,all his skin. We, we went crazy, we started screaming, we told him to get out. We took everybody out of the office outside to the loading dock area and then I went back in and when I went back in I saw people, I heard people that were stuck on an elevator, a freight elevator because the elevators went down and water was going in and they were probably getting drowned and we get a couple of pipes and open the elevator and got the people out.
Source: On 9/11/06,CNN provided their live coverage from 9/11/2001, on CNN.com's Pipeline in real time. I taped the interview and transcibed the words, leaving out the several "uhs".