Closer Look: Beagle Brigade; Atlanta’s Response To Aleppo; And More

Jim Burress met U.S Custom Border Protection’s “Beagle Brigade.”

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Tuesday on “Closer Look with Rose Scott and Jim Burress”:

  • 0:00: Rose Scott and Jim Burress give a news brief on an accident in Cobb County involving a school bus. Police and school officials say there were no fatalities;
  • 0:52: Tom Cunningham, chief economist for the Metro Atlanta Chamber talks about what Atlanta’s business leaders are watching for in 2017;
  • 20:29: Jim Burress heads to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to meet the U.S Custom Border Protection’s “Beagle Brigade;”
  • 32:16: Rose Scott and Jim Burress talk about the inductees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame;
  • 35:33: Evacuations resumed this week in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Temperatures there have dipped into the low 20s and many trying to escape are without warm clothes and food. We learn about Atlanta’s response from Dr. Yassar Kanawati, a child psychiatrist at the Peachtree Family Psychiatry Clinic in Atlanta and with the Syrian American Medical Society.