now to susan herera for a cnbc news update. >> hello, everyone here's what's happening at this hour a california judge upheld a jury's verdict that monsanto's roundup herbicide caused cancer in a california couple but the judge reduced the damages from $2 billion to $86.7 million. monsanto's parent bayer ag says it will appeal the verdict and the damage amount. >>> palestinian protesters clashed with israeli forces at the site of a recent demmission of houses which israel claimed were built too close to its security barriers with the west bank they hurled rocks and stones >> and people in sweden were left scratching their heads after the revelation that president trump tried to secure the release of american rap star from a stockholm jail. trump called sweden's prime minister and urged him to free the rapper and then followed up with a tweet criticizing him for being unable to act over the case >> my first reaction was that i actually started to laugh because this doesn't surprise me at all it's like a typical trump comment, and, yeah we see these kind of comments from him all the tim

susan herera about 30 minutes until "power lunch." >> we will ask mr. cube in part about big three basketball which this weekend debuts out at the barkley center in brooklyn comes to the big apple brooklyn, of course, now the home of kevin durant and kyrie irving but we will talk about basketball and how it's become a year-round phenomenon. their new television contract which they hope will help their league revenues. and also he is really, oh, what do you call, he's a proian individual with his fingers in all kinds of content pots. and we are going to talk about content development, how content is king. absolutely >> how it is getting distributed because he is right on the forefront of a lot of it, providing content for all kinds of distributors in all kinds of ways >> it'll be interesting to what he says. >> very entrepreneurial dude >>> here's what's still ahead on "the exchange. >>> coming up, primed for record sales? >>> 23 and me moves in on apple. >>> and starbucks turns the page on newspapers. that's all ahead on "rapid fire." these folks don't