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Custodian who saved several people, escaped World Trade Center's North Tower remembers 9/11
CBS News
September 12, 2026
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World Trade Center custodian William Rodriguez had planned on taking the day off on September 11, 2001. His boss begged him to come in, and later that day he would become one of the last known people to leave the North Tower alive. Rodriguez joins CBS News to share his story.
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