CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It could happen anywhere -- an explosion, chemical and biological contamination, hundreds of injured. And because of that, because of the current state we're in, in the world, emergency personnel are pushed to the limit. And all of this describes why a mock exercise near Moscow is going on this week. Our Moscow bureau chief, Jill Dougherty, joins us with more on this. Good morning -- Jill.</s>JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN MOSCOW BUREAU CHIEF: Good morning, Carol. Well, Carol, this is a NATO-Russia exercise, and it's really the first of its kind anti-terrorist exercise, and also the biggest. It's 1,200 rescuers from 14 different countries, and the idea of the scenario was, Russia has an attack by terrorists on a chemical factory. It cannot cope, and it needs to ask for help from its European partners. So, the task for the rescuers that came in was to, as quickly as possible, try to save the lives of 350 victims. Now, the way they did it out in this training center outside of Moscow, Carol, they actually had 200 real, live people, who were playing the role of victims. And then, they also had 150 dummies. But they had to find all of them and get to them as quickly as possible. The aim of all of this is to learn to work together as efficiently as possible, and that is not easy, especially when you have 14 different languages going on, and actually various techniques that the different rescue services use. They also tried to make it as realistic as possible. They had explosions, smoke, destroyed buildings and contamination of the area. And after three days -- it was a three-day exercise -- officials both from NATO and from Russia were saying that it was extremely valuable -- Carol.</s>COSTELLO: It sounds like it. Jill Dougherty reporting live from Moscow this morning -- thank you.
Russia, NATO Team up for Terror Exercise