. >>> let's get to this morning's top corporate stories, our bertha coombs is here. >> good morning. hasbro set to prevail over alta fox board challenge. digital game units are mislocating its capital. citadel is building a crypto currently platform along with retail growth, feidelity investments. an advisers to the fda yesterday voted overwhelmingly to recommend the agency to authorize the novavax for adults the panel outside vaccine, experts voted 21-0 with one exception in favor of the vaccine of those 18 or older after discussing whether it out weighs the risk. shares did not begin trading again until after a close. shares right now up fractionally, frank. that's good news for those might have been worried of the few technology in vaccines maybe this will help give them mores with this type of more conventional shot. >> we are still dealing with this pandemic after two years plus, thank you for the latest, good morning >>> breaking news moments ago, oecd slashes global growth outlook on ukraine, china. this comes after the world bank yesterday also turned more negative on global

let's get to cnbc's bertha coombs, has been looking into the business aspect of it all. >> hi, shep. it's one of those things that a lot of businesses have been talking about since that initial decisions, draft was leaked the last couple of months. it's an unprecedented situation. if you consider before roe v. wade, you didn't really have that sense of insurance, picking up the cost, of pregnancy termination in the case of an elective abortion. so that has been happening over the last 50 years. now employers, many of them, have already come up the likes of jpmorgan this morning, but amalgamated bank, we know that salesforce, a number of other companies had already come out over the last couple of months saying that they will provide at least transportation access for people to travel to where abortion is legal. there are questions as to whether they will face pr prerepercussions for that. a number of legal scholars i talked to said that one of those things in states like texas, for example, it's a civil prosecution. that will lead to more counter lawsuits it's unclear whether that ty

than expected drop in operating income partially because of falling demand for covid vaccines bertha coombsat are the other headwinds >> the vaccines definitely a big one but the pharmacy itself. one of the things they talked about is they are trying to staff up again their pharmacies so that they can reopen for more normal hours rather than truncated hours that a lot of these pharmacies have been operating under since the pandemic and that is one of the things they are focused on to do that, you've got to pay up walmart just said it was going to pay its pharmacists $20 an hour so that's one of the headwinds that they have in terms of being able to staff up and have more volume in the pharmacy but also pay more. >> bertha, thanks. barbara, it's a good thing that we don't necessarily have to fight the pandemic in the same way that we did a couple of years ago but this also speaks to normalizing patterns and not always being able to anticipate the economic effects when those normalize. >> john, that is an excellent point. i think one of the things, investors are so pessimistic and it's hard n

let's get to bertha coombs for the cnbc news update >> here is your cnbc news at this hour, ten people are injured after a missile struck a mall. ukraine's president zelenskyy says the target presented no threat to the russian army and had, quote, no strategic value >>> a new york city law allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections is being struck down by a judge who said it violates the state's constitution the judge also argued the law violated sections of the state's election law and municipal home rule law and with inflation at 40-year highs, workers across all income levels are having a harder time making ends meet more than 150 million adults are living pay tcheck to paycheck en among those making $205,000 or more, 30% say they are living paycheck to paycheck that's an amazing stat, isn't it contessa >> sure is bertha, thank you for that. >>> up next on "power lunch," nat gas down 24% and we'll speak to the ceo of eqt. today's three-stock lunch re a "weconsumer calls from wall stetndpor lunch" returns after this don't go anywhere. costs.xpected out-t so if you're on medicar

. >> corporations trying to navigate the issue bertha coombs has the latest >> corporations and the healthcareustry, kelly 50 years ago before roe it wasn't as if abortion was covered by insurance and by employers, now it has been over the last 50 years and as we look at where it is going to be illegal now it's going to create a very divided patchwork of benefits for insurers that provide them and they would not be able to provide coverage for individuals and small businesses who are often fully insured in most states where it is illegal. for larger employers they'll only cover it in areas where it is legal a number of employers have said they will provide travel benefits to be able to go to those areas where it's legal obviously, this implicates doctors. this implicates hospitals as far as medical procedures and it also implicates the pharmacies, as well. nearly half of abortions are performed medically. so the pharmacies dispense the so-called morning-after pills and they'll have to look at the patchwork nationally of where they can do that and how they can help their employees and their cus

cnbc's bertha coombs now on how one telehealth company is trying to provide greater health care access reporter: for piper rose, gender transition has been a process, the hardest part finding a doctor. >> if i call and i say i want an lgbtq plus competent doctor, they can't even sort the doctor's list based on that. >> reporter: now rose works for plume, a 3-year-old telehealth startup for adult transgender patients the co-founder saw virtual care as a game-changer. >> upwards of a third of trans individuals are actually discriminated against or harassed in a health care facility telehealth as a means to access health care for the transcommunity is not just a convenience and nice to have, it actually can be a necessity for many folks. >> reporter: plume provides access to a doctor and testing for adults and a trans-led support team for $99 a month it isn't covered by insurance and hormone medication is extra. now in 41 states, the service is growing, but so are legal challenges to gender-affirming care more than a dozen states have moved to restrict transgender care for youth while att

next, cnbc's bertha coombs plains the decision companies are making and why taking action might be easieraid than done >>> on wall street, another big comeback the dow up 823 on the session. it's the first positive week for the index this month the s&p up 116, the nasdaq, look at that, up 375. 3% plus. the market rally isn't tied to the supreme court overturning roe at all the analysts tell us investors were reacting to other news including interest rates stabilizing, early signs that maybe inflation is slowing, and fear of a bigger economic slowdown easing. but while investors might not be focusing on today's landmark abortion ruling, corporate america seems to be. birthertha coombs tracking thatr us what action are they taking? >> well, shep, they have been preparing for this for weeks since that leak of the scotus draft. and more today coming out publicly committing to provide access for their workers to abortion care. today, we heard from facebook parent meta joining tech giants apple, microsoft, amazon, google parents and salesforce, pledging to provide travel benefits and coverage f

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. >> good morning, i'm bertha coombs just 30 minutes ago, the u.s.rt expanding religious rights of government employees with a 67-3 ruling in favor of a high school football coach in washington state. he sued after being suspended for refusing to stop praying with players, the latest stream court ruling to narrow the separation of church and state for schools. three people are dead, two others injured after an amtrak train crashed into a vehicle obstructing rail traction. the fire service says the contra costa sheriffs office is handling an investigation into that deadly incident and cost cois recalling 400,000 of sun umbrellas, according to consumer safety commission, product safety commission, according to report, the lithium batteries in the solar panels could possibly overheat and cause a fire for hazardous burns. back over to you >> brenda, thank you >>> let's take a check on markets. stocks pulling back in the last week of june bob mpisani is joining us >> a choppy day in trade, the market leader last week, now is nost take a look here energy,

the supreme court's decision to reverse roe verse wade cnbc bertha coombs has more on this part.demand works with 250 employers nationally providing benefit navigation and telehealthcare and access to abortions for workers in the wakes of the dobbs ruling, the co-founder owen tripp. thank you so much for joining us this morning you have been working with large employers since the leak of the draft in may tell us about how employers are approaching this, those who have said that they are going to have benefits to help workers access abortion care? >> yeah, you can imagine the scramble that most employers felt when they saw the leaked memo and they knew that they wanted to continue to provide benefits like they have been for decades, but to do that across the state lines and understand the regulatory regime they would be operating in is quite a challenge. those were called in the early days, we continue to supply services to help members navigate to high quality care irregardless of the states they're in >> a number of employers, j.p. morgan, amazon, citi, they have a mix of white