Survivor's Account of 9/11 Attack

All of a sudden I heard a roar and I saw one of the towers blow

and then collapse and fill the horizon with smoke.

And I yelled, "Oh my God." And I saw from street level as though it

had

exploded up a giant rolling ball of flame

and the firefighters screamed, "Run." And I turned to run, but I

fell and I felt someone scoop me up, tell me to throw my

high heels off, and I was running in my stocking feet with him.

And finally, as we ran and ran, he slammed me into a wall

and covered my body with his. I could feel his

heart beating against my backbone.

And I think both of us were sure we were dead

because

there was no way you could run fast enough and there was no way to avoid

it. But somehow we escaped the flame, which

was immediately followed by a storm

of debris. Uh-

This morning when tower, the first tower collapsed, I

was standing about

three blocks away with CBS News correspondent Mika Brzezinski.

As a fireball rolled towards us, Mika grabbed her shoes, I grabbed her

hand, and we ran like hell.

And all hell broke loose.

The South Tower now

is starting to implode. The fireball

is following us, so we're running away from a fireball

towards Financial One.

And at that point, we thought that we were running into the

entrance of Financial One,

but it was just the way the building was made.

The fireball hit Financial One, sheared a part of it

completely off, and the area where we were in, that

section entombed us with all the debris that was

coming off of the South Tower as it was imploding.

An explosion. At that point, I got knocked out.

I don't remember anything.

Then I got up,

and I remember walking out, and it was total darkness in the

corridors. And I was at the edge. I was in a dentist office because there was

dentist chairs and tools. And I looked out the window because the

windows exploded,

and the street below caved in. The whole street caved

in. You can see below the street. And at that point, there was like

fireballs coming up. So I said, "All right, I'm not gonna make it." I,

I really

didn't think I was gonna make it.