World News: We still don't know who won the Iowa Caucus

Tuesday, February 4

Jeff Lopez holds his son, Tristan, 4, as they and Jeff's wife, Jessika, sit in an area for Bernie Sanders supporters during the Woodbury County Third Precinct Democratic caucus, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, at West High School in Sioux City, Iowa. Iowans across the state attended Democratic and Republican caucuses Monday.

Tuesday's Daily Briefing: We still don't know who won the Iowa Caucus

The Iowa Democratic caucus results are expected 'later today,' Trump will deliver his third State of the Union address and more news to start your Tuesday.

Daily Briefing readers, hug a sleepy journalist (or Iowan today). The results of the Iowa Caucus still have not been released.

But there's a lot more news today than the TBD Democratic winner. We've got State of the Union. We've got winter weather. We've even got Jessica Simpson's new tell-all, if that's your thing.

Let's get this day started.

1. And the winner in Iowa is ... We're not sure yet.

It was a night that stretched into the morning. And, it was a good night for the futures of former mayor Pete Buttigeig and Sen. Bernie Sanders campaign. But not so much for the future of the Iowa caucuses. Meanwhile, for the Republicans, President Trump secured an early victory. The Associated Press called the caucus in Trump's favor at 7:26 pm.

•	Here's a look back at how the night and overnight unfolded
•	Full Democrat results (will be here) and full GOP results

What the candidates had to say

'At some point' Democratic candidates emerged one after the other on stages in Iowa on Monday night and attempted to cast the unsatisfying delay in the most positive light. It's rare for candidates to speak without knowing the outcome of a contest, and the campaigns were all forced to rip up their victory and concession speeches. Many of the candidates delivered addresses that closely mirrored remarks they have been giving for months on the trail, along with gently ribbing the process in Iowa.

•	'Iowa, you have shocked the nation': Buttigieg projects victory as wait for results continues

More Iowa news from last night and overnight

Those results … they were oh so slow. Campaigns workers for Democrats reported significant glitches with the new reporting app they were supposed to use to report caucus results. But there was a coin toss! This coin toss gives Amy Klobuchar the edge over Elizabeth Warren at one caucus site. This was the Iowa caucus site where a burger costs less than a tin of chewing tobacco. The Des Moines Register's Courtney Crowder was at the first ever American Sign Language caucus.

PSA: Some follow-ups on yesterday's news

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•	We told you the winning Super Bowl ad and the other top ads yesterday. Today, here are the 5 lowest-rated Super Bowl ads of this year
•	Rush Limbaugh revealed advanced lung cancer diagnosis late yesterday saying, "This day has been one of the most difficult days in recent memory for me."
•	Kobe Bryant, 'man of faith,' attended Mass with his family the morning of helicopter crash
•	Two men were found dead within days of each other in Mexico. They both worked for a famed butterfly sanctuary

2. President Trump's State of the Union: An agenda for 2020

Sure, the Senate is holding an impeachment trial, but White House officials say President Donald Trump will seek to strike an upbeat tone when he delivers his State of the Union before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night (9 p.m. EST). Trump has dubbed the annual address speech, "the Great American Comeback." "We're going to talk about the achievements that we've made," he told Fox News host Sean Hannity in a Super Bowl Sunday interview. Trump plans to renew a call for tax breaks designed to provide more scholarships for students to attend private schools, two sources familiar with the address told USA TODAY. The president's emphasis on school choice – a popular issue with his core supporters – will be part of a speech in which the president is also likely to discuss the economy and trade, working families, health care, immigration and national security.

•	Impeachment trial updates: GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she 'cannot vote to convict' Trump
•	New poll: Voters who 'strongly' approve of Trump at new high as impeachment nears end
•	The president talks to Hannity: In Super Bowl interview, the president predicts re-election

3. Winter weather returns: Storm wallops West, heads to Central, Eastern US

A potent winter storm that dumped heavy snow on the Rockies Monday will crawl toward the central and eastern U.S. the rest of the week, forecasters say. After moving away from the Rockies on Tuesday, the storm will produce a band of snow and ice from the southern Plains to the interior Northeast over the next few days, the National Weather Service said. In the South, heavy rainfall, localized flooding and severe thunderstorms are forecast Tuesday through Thursday. "Rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are forecast in a swath through Arkansas, the boot heel of Missouri, and into Kentucky and the Tennessee Valley through Wednesday evening," the weather service said. "There is some potential for flash flooding where heavy rainfall occurs in these areas." Also, due to 2020's wet start, rainfall rates will not need to be exceptionally high to produce a flash flood risk, AccuWeather warned.

•	More extreme weather: Strong California winds lead to plane running into trash bin, blowing out two tires at LAX
•	Groundhog Day 2020 results: No shadow! Phil predicts early spring is coming
•	Heat goes on: New global temperature record is 'likely' within the next five years, report says

4. Weinstein accuser expected to return to stand after sobbing in court

Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's sex-crimes trial will continue Tuesday as defense lawyers will resume their cross-examination of accuser Jessica Mann after she left the courtroom sobbing inconsolably Monday afternoon . Mann, 34, is a key accuser in the case as Weinstein, 67, is charged with raping her in a New York City hotel room in 2013, along with sexually assaulting another woman, Miriam "Mimi" Haleyi, in 2006. On Monday, one of Weinstein's lawyers, Donna Rotunno, repeatedly asked Mann, a former actress, why she continued sending friendly, seemingly loving emails to the ex-producer, even after he allegedly raped her. Her testimony took an emotional turn, when Rotunno asked Mann to read a spring 2014 email to her boyfriend at the time. In the email, she described a "controlling" relationship with Weinstein, calling him a father figure to her. She also wrote that Weinstein "validated me in ways my parents never did."

•	More from the trial: Roommate backs Haleyi's accusation, says 'it sounded like rape'
•	Rosie Perez testifies at Weinstein's trial: Annabella Sciorra said 'I think it was rape'
•	The Backstory: The Harvey Weinstein story is about more than Harvey Weinstein

5. Jessica Simpson's life is an 'Open Book' in new memoir

Jessica Simpson reveals she was sexually abused as a child and later overcame alcohol and drug addictions in "Open Book," her new memoir out Tuesday. The pop-star-turned entrepreneur, 39, writes that the abuse began at a family friend's house when she was 6. She didn't tell her parents until she was 12. "I was the victim but somehow I felt in the wrong," she writes. The abuse coupled with stress over her career led her to become dependent on alcohol and drugs. She got sober in 2017 with the help of therapy. "Giving up the alcohol was easy," she wrote. "I was mad at that bottle. At how it allowed me to stay complacent and numb."