Your Tuesday Evening Briefing

Trump, Health Care, Hawaii | View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [The New York Times]( [The New York Times]( Tuesday, January 30, 2018 [NYTimes.com »]( [Your Tuesday Evening Briefing]( By KAREN ZRAICK AND DAVID SCULL Good evening. Here’s the latest. Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times 1. President Trump delivers his first State of the Union address at 9 p.m. Eastern, and White House officials say it will be a positive message. We’ll have [streaming video and analysis in our live briefing](. Above, the setup. [Melania Trump]( who has kept a low profile since reports emerged of a past affair between Mr. Trump and an adult film star, is expected to attend. Here are [the guests who will sit with her](. [Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III of Massachusetts]( will deliver the Democrats’ response. You may have heard of his family. ____ Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images 2. The president is also expected to promote his strategy to win the war in Afghanistan — [a goal that has eluded his predecessors]( since 2001. [On our podcast “The Daily,”]( our Kabul correspondent discusses the connection between the recent wave of violence there and the U.S. government’s cutoff of security aid to Pakistan. And a veteran journalist [argues in an Op-Ed]( essay that American military aims in Afghanistan are riddled with contradictions (and illusions) that Pakistan’s spy agency exploits. ____ Matthew Ryan Williams for The New York Times 3. Three corporate giants — [Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase — are forming a company]( that could disrupt U.S. health care. In a statement noticeably short on details, their chief executives expressed frustration with the expensive and complicated health care system, and confidence that their plan for an independent, tech-focused health care company will be the solution for their employees in the U.S. Health care and medical experts [shared their thoughts about the impact](. Above, Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle. ____ Stephen Crowley/The New York Times 4. The Treasury Department [angered Moscow with a new name-and-shame list]( identifying 210 senior Russian political and business figures. Some are already facing sanctions, and others may be subject to them in the future. “This is definitely an unfriendly act,” said President Vladimir Putin, above with President Trump at the G20 last year. Democrats, meanwhile, are upset that the administration did not impose additional sanctions to punish the Kremlin for interference in the presidential election. ____ Cory Lum/Associated Press 5. Remember that push alert earlier this month that warned Hawaiians that a ballistic missile was headed their way? It turns out it wasn’t sent by accident. The worker who sent it out [misunderstood a supervisor’s directions]( and thought Hawaii really was under attack. The F.C.C. faulted the state for not having “reasonable safeguards” in place. ____ Joao Silva/The New York Times 6. It sounds like a Hollywood blockbuster. [“Day Zero” is coming to Cape Town]( — but it’s a real threat, one that will surpass anything a major city has faced in years. “Day Zero” is when the water supply will run dry in the drought-stricken city of four million, possibly as early as April. The city is hoping for rain and bracing for the impact, in a frightening illustration of the risks of climate change. ____ Jan Mark 7. An Australian college student shook security experts around the world this week, when he showed that [a fitness app was exposing the location of American military personnel]( in conflict zones. We [spoke with Nathan Ruser, above, during his summer break in Thailand](. Before sharing his findings publicly, he discussed them in a group chat on Twitter, which is playing an increasingly important role in open-source intelligence collection. ____ Lucas Jackson/Reuters 8. Can the Grammys be saved? Ratings were down. Hip-hop was shut out of the major categories. Only one woman collected her own trophy during the broadcast. And that was all before the [head of the Recording Academy said that women needed to “step up”]( to win awards, setting off a backlash from female artists. We discussed the brouhaha on [our music podcast, “Popcast]( while an Op-Ed writer accused the show of [“slut-shaming” Nikki Haley]( in the “Fire and Fury” segment. Above, Madison Square Garden before the show. ____ Dina Litovsky for The New York Times.. 9. Ahead of the Winter Olympics, we tagged along on a workout with [Lindsey Vonn, the most decorated World Cup ski racer]( in U.S. history. She’s had a host of injuries, but she’s training hard and is among the favorites going into Pyeongchang. At her home gym in Vail, Colo., we got a glimpse of her routine, which is heavy on strength training and core work. She called it “kind of a light day.” ____ Jim Lo Scalzo/European Pressphoto Agency 10. Finally, a rare “super blue blood moon” will be visible to people in the U.S. early Wednesday morning. Viewers on the West Coast (and in East Asia or Australia) have the best seats. Above, a blood moon over the Capitol last month. The celestial event occurs as the moon slides behind Earth’s shadow during a lunar eclipse, turning it red “[like a giant rose in the predawn sky]( our science correspondent writes. Your best bet: Look toward the northwest. (Or go online, where [NASA will be showing the event]( beginning at 5:30 a.m. Eastern.) Good luck catching a glimpse. ____ Your Evening Briefing is posted at 6 p.m. Eastern. And don’t miss [Your Morning Briefing]( posted weekdays at 6 a.m. Eastern, and Your Weekend Briefing, posted at 6 a.m. Sundays. We have four global editions, timed for [the Americas]( [Europe]( [Asia]( and [Australia](. Want to catch up on past briefings? [You can browse them here](. If photographs appear out of order, please download the updated New York Times app [from iTunes]( or [Google Play](. What did you like? What do you want to see here? Let us know at [briefing@nytimes.com](mailto:briefing@nytimes.com?subject=Evening%20Briefing%20Feedback). LIKE THIS EMAIL? Forward it to your friends, and let them know they can sign up [here](. ADVERTISEMENT Sponsor a Subscription Inspire the future generation of readers by contributing to The Times’s [sponsor-a-subscription program](. 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