clothing brand levi strauss and company, said if abortion is banned any states where employees live, an abortion clinic out of state. amazon paying up to $4000 for travel to get abortion. yelp and tesla are in on it too. there are companies who announced who do it months before the leak. like citigroup they were anticipated. monica crawley is former assistant treasury secretary. they're out in front of it. they're not waiting for the supreme court. >> i want to know if levi strauss will stop making maternity jeans. now they will be paying for their female employees abortions and travel expenses. i want to know where the fairness comes in? if you're a female employee at , andyou decide to have a baby l they give you a $4000 bonus to even it out? also, if you got a female employee who wants to have fertility treatments to have a baby, are these companies going to pay for that? this is all about pro-abortion. this is not pro-choice. you have to wonder when these woke corporations do this. are they trying to avoid paying for maternity leave? which is lot more expensive than $4000 for tra

levi strauss said they have already reimbursed employees who had to travel out of state for abortions and other services. it will cover the expenses of employees who get abortions. the tech firm told employees they will report -- they will -- investors have wrapped up the worst rating day of the year on wall street. the dow dropped more than a thousand points, wiping out all of the gains from yesterday. when they both had their best days in more than two years, some experts called today's losses and overcorrection to big gains. >> president biden announced karine jean-pierre has been promoted. she will follow jen psaki's last day. this will be the first black and is easy -- lgbtq person in the role. >> coming up, an update to the story we told you about last month about a bay area couples challenge in removing a under district attorney gascón, i prosecuted car break-ins. all repeat offenders, often in organized crime rings. but when chesa boudin took office, he dissolved the unit and stopped me from collaborating with the police on my cases. now home and car break-ins are on the rise

levi strauss also says women make up 58% of their company's global workforce. for the first time in months, daily hospital admission levels and new covid cases and deaths are projected to increase . jonathan siri has the latest from atlanta, including the push for more people to get boosted. covid is still with us in the cdc is predicting the next few weeks could be tough. nationwide covid hospitalizations are up 20% in the past seven days, with emergency room visits, jumping about 18% the hardest hit state in new york, where covid related admissions have tripled in the last month, but we're still nowhere close to the levels seen during the last search, and most doctors say the new ah mccrone sub variants driving the spike in cases are more contagious, but not as dangerous as the original but disappeared. that be a four and five are somehow evading prior immunity, but not causing severe illness and nearly the rate and we should expect that the cdc is projecting at least 42 states will see a jump in hospitalizations and deaths in the next four weeks. we're curre

levi strauss also says women make up 58% of the company's global workforce. supreme court decision involves a case from mississippi that challenges a law that would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, one bay area attorney wrote in amicus brief for that mississippi case and says that there will be major effects across the country. if roe v. wade is overturned. there's a large body of research that talks about the improvements that we see from abortion access on women's educational achievement. women's wages. there are great numbers about just the ability for a woman to delay an unplanned pregnancy by just one year. can have just kind of astronomical impact on their later wages. it also impacts of women's educational attainment. school graduation college attendance, there's just a lot of data out there. actually that measures these effects that i think it's important for the court and people to know about. now our coverage of the abortion rights fight continues here on mornings onto and online just visit ktvu dot com. find the very latest developments r

thank you well, san francisco based levi strauss says it will reimburse employees for travel expenses if they need to access an abortion out of state in a statement titled protecting reproductive rights, a business imperative, the company said. access to reproductive health care, including abortion has been a critical factor to the workplace gains and contributions women have made over the past 50 years. the company says women make up 58% of its global workforce if the supreme court does overturn roe v. wade california could become home to nearly 30% of all abortion clinics in the united states and analysis by the chronicle. shows of clinics begin to close in the states where abortion is restricted, the number of clinics nationwide would drop by 26% from 792 588. percentage of the nation's clinics in california would go from 21% to 29% 26 states are expected to implement bans or near bands on abortions if the high court does indeed overturned. roe v. wade congressional democrats are rushing to put together a bill that would create a federal right to abortion, a constitutional protecti

as states begin passing abortion laws, companies including apple, amazon, and levi strauss began offering to cover travel costs for employees who need the procedure. jen stark helps companies navigate social change and says companies have to think about their role in advocacy and public policy. >> abortion is part of the constellation of care that women need to show up at work. we know when women lack access to abortion, they're three times more likely to leave the workplace and four times more likely to be -- >> she says the younger generation is gravitated toward companies they politically align with there's continuing silence from a number of companies including google, meta, and disney >> perry russom, thanks very much >> what a day on wall street after the federal reserve took its most aggressive step in decades, to try to beat back surging inflation. fed officials raised interest rates by half a percentage point, the biggest rate hike since the year 2000. also the first time the fed has raised interest rates in back-to-back fed meetings in 16 years. the federal reserve chairman, jay

as states began passing abortion laws, companies including apple, amazon and levi strauss, began offering to cover travel costs for employees that need to procedures. jen works to companies to help navigate social change. we need to think about advocacy and public policy. >> abortion is part of the consolation of care that women need to show up at work. we know that when women lack access to abortion, they are three times more likely to leave the workplace, and four times more likely to be in poverty. >> that was cnbc perry russom reporting for us, thank you. next, ukraine and bracing for a russian bombardment. what's the government is telling people in the war zone on an important russian holiday. next, the january six committee wants to hear from rudy giuliani. what options do they have after his latest no-show this week? first to msnbc and cory coffin. >> here is what we are working out today, north korea has launched a ballistic missile into the sea of japan, that is according to south green a fischel's. japan's offense minister says that it was likely a summary launched missile. the

why san francisco based levi strauss says protecting a woman's right to choose is imperative to its business eveg tonight in sports, the combination of injured and covid absent players finally caught up with the giants and two game mini series in los angeles. the giants are limping home losers of three in a row. little breezy , but vintage baseball evening at dodger stadium. things started out okay for the giants brandon crawford against st mary's college product, tony gosselin in the second mookie betts can't get that one. it's one game home run number two on the year for crawford. alex wood was pitching well for the giants . hell out two runs in the fourth and then in the sixth bets, hit the drive to write that mikey stransky times but can't quite yet common number four for bats would was gone after five and a third, allowing three runs on four hits. the dodgers made it a blowout by getting to the giant bullpen late. sammy long was one of three giant relievers and he was tagged for three runs in the third of an ending. freddie freeman finds the right field corner to drive in a pair of runs

that's why we saw a number of big companies from apple, levi str strauss, citi group, i believe, noted their employees greater access to reproductive care as well as reimbursement for travel out of state, if they live somewhere like texas where they have less access to abortion and other kinds of reproductive care. so i think what you'll see is that companies that have a work force, more auoften a highly educated high skill work force where those companies have been trying desperately to attract women workers in particular, they have go out of their way to offer these kinds of benefits, but for lower wage workers, workers with less specialized skills where they may not have as much bargaining power, they're going to be the ones who are not protected either by state law or their employers in terms of having access to control over their own reproductive choices. >> so it sound like you're just saying in the end this really comes down to business for these compan companies. they want to retain that talent. >> yeah. >> let's talk about the jobs report. it was out yesterday, it shows u.s. e