News-desk's mock terror attack video

Matt Haughey's found a crazy documentary video on Usenet:

It's a 30 minute video of a news desk practicing for an all out terror attack on the US (featuring real news guy Forrest Sawyer). They are imagining that someone deployed the black plague in New Jersey, detonated a suicide bomb, and used a plane to deliver chemicals to civilians in Connecticut, with thousands of dead and injured. It features experts, eyewitnesses, and reporters in the field, and it seems like everyone is improvising, as you can kind of sense people making stuff up when pressed during questioning.

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Update: John sez, "The VNN news feed was a part of TOPOFF 3, an international full scale terror drill that took place the week of 4-Apr with significant mock events happening in New London CT (chemical attack with urban search-and-rescue) and New Jersey (biological attack with hospital overload). Other parts involved Canada and the UK. The TOPOFF (TOP OFFicials) drills happen on a three year cycle, and have a $16mil budget for planning and implementation. The New London part of the drill included a multiday search-and-rescue drill in a simulated building-collapsed-on-cars environment (I had a small role in the drill with the Red Cross). The physical part of the drill involved three Urban Search-and-Rescue teams (Mass Task Force 1 (FEMA funded), as well as the state funded NJ and CT task forces). These folks and their search dogs spend three days digging through the pile, shoring it up, and 'rescuing' victims." (Thanks, Geoff, Cyrus, Robert, John, and others!)