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Mock terrorists defeated security personnel in a recent drill at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where nuclear weapons research is conducted, federal officials said Tuesday.

Forty-five minutes after the first needle was plunged into a Coloradan's arm Saturday, more than 6,000 people statewide had received flu shots in a drill to prepare for a large- scale flu outbreak. The exercise by the Colorado Department of Health and Environment targeted 26,000 people throughout the state at 28 sites. Turnout was lower than expected and only about 10,000 people received the shots in the scheduled two hours-plus, said Katherine Davis, spokeswoman for the health department.

Hundreds of emergency responders descend on Fort Lee for a mock terrorist attack today. They are there to prepare, should disaster really strike. It’s called “Talon Shield” and it is only a drill. But to those training at the army base, it's has to be as real as possible because if disaster strikes, it’s communication between all of those first responders that can make the difference between life and death.

Moving more than 3,000 students and teachers halfway across the county and back sounds like an exercise in confusion. But Brunswick County emergency services director Randy Thompson believes the county’s first-ever radiological emergency drill, in which students and teachers at schools within a ten-mile radius of the Progress Energy Brunswick Plant will be transported by bus to other schools in the county, is actually an important exercise in preparedness and school safety.