80 deaths across 5 states and Friday nights rash of tornadoes Kentucky is reporting at least 70 deaths with governor Andy beshear saying today he expects that figure to climb as search and rescue efforts continue Several other deaths were reported across Missouri Tennessee Arkansas and Illinois including two in an Amazon facility President Biden is pledging federal assistance after the outbreak of deadly tornadoes in a call to Kentucky governor Andy Bashir Biden also expressed his condolences for the lives lost According to a White House readout of the call Biden and Bashir agreed to stay in contact throughout the day as rescue operations and damage assessments continue Inflation is still on the rise in the U.S. the consumer price index rose 0.8% in November and prices of climbs 6.8% in the last year President Biden released a statement Friday calling inflation a global problem and attributed the rise to ongoing economic fallout from the COVID pandemic That's the latest I'm Julie Ryan And I'm susannah Palmer in the Bloomberg newsroom looking at an increase in coronavirus cases in the state governor Kathy hoku ordered all businesses to require masks indoors if they don't have a COVID-19 vaccine requirement She said she wants to keep the New York economy open I don't want to go back ever again to that place where people couldn't go their jobs safely couldn't congregate Kids couldn't go to schools Huckel said in the briefing Friday that we are entering a time of uncertainty and we could either plateau here or our cases could escalate beyond control Scientists in London weren't England could face between 24,774 1800 deaths from COVID-19 this winter without further restrictions to slow the spread of the omicron variant JPMorgan Chase and company is preparing to pay roughly $200 million to resolve U.S. regulatory investigations into lapses over monitoring employee communications We're hearing a settlement with the commodity futures trading commission could be reached before the end of the year Wall Street firms are required to carefully monitor communications involving their businesses The unusually stiff sanctions for surveillance serve as a warning for the financial industry However efforts going to clear West Coast ports of all those containers and ships Pacific maritime association president James McKenna spoke about that with Bloomberg's David Weston Well it depends on how you look at it We have done a lot better in getting inbound cargo imports out of the terminals and to the warehouses So that's the plus We still have a lot of empties on the dock and we're setting empty loaders in to pick them up So everything is focused on continuing to create fluidity in the terminals Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quick take powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries I am Susanna Palmer This is Bloomberg Broadcasting live from the Bloomberg interactive brokers studio in New York Bloomberg 11 To Washington D.C. Bloomberg 99 one to Boston Bloomberg one O 6 one This Francisco Bloomberg 9 60 to the country Syria's XM channel one 19 and around the globe The Bloomberg business act and Bloomberg radio dot com This is Bloomberg best I met Baxter and I'm daddy's polygon and people are definitely as you well know venturing out and traveling again to places like Hawaii for example not naming names but leisure travel It's really.