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USDA food safety expert Meredith Carothers talks about clean, separate, cook, and chill - the four pillars of food safety and how they apply to getting your Super Bowl party food presentation prepared and safe to eat.

A USDA food safety expert provides examples of how to take what is known as the "two-hour rule" in account when practicing food safety for your Super Bowl party. (Rod Bain and Meredith Carothers)

Kathryn Bronsky of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service notes how her agency's website provides information on existing invasive pest quarantines and firewood movement restrictions. (Web address - "www.aphis.usda.gov")

Much of the country will close this month with milder weather conditions in what has been a colder-than-normal January. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey says a mixed bag of temperatures nationwide coupled with above normal precipitation for much of the country makes up the weather forecast for the period of February 4 - 10.

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey explains how a weak La Nina system is behind what has been a colder-than-normal January in several parts of the U.S.

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey talks about a system currently traveling across the nation, and how it is expected to bring rains to several parts of the country this week.

Weather of the last few days is providing much needed relief in wildfire containment and control efforts in Southern California. (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)

Another push of Arctic air is expected later this week and into the weekend, but to what extent into the lower forty-eight states? (Rod Bain and USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey)

USDA Rural Development in conjunction with local and regional Cooperative Development Centers provides support to assist in economic development, such as with a poultry co-op in Virginia. Rod Bain reports. PARTICIPANTS: Rod Bain. Whitney Perkins and Tony Banks of The Virginia Foundation for...