Declaring himself a president ial candidate. To discourage abortion, he says everyone who has a baby should get 1 million. He claimed Harriet Tubman never freed the slaves but had them work for other white people. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, july 20th. Thank you for joining us on this monday. We begin with the debate over coronavirus funding taking center stage as the National Death toll surpasses 140,000. Overnight the bahamas announced it is no longer welcoming american visitors. Starting wednesday its borders will be closed to travelers from the u. S. As confirmed cases of covid19 across this country continue to surge. Today people can visit the statue of liberty again as new york city enters phase 4 of reopening, but no one will be allowed to go inside. Abcs Megan Tevrizian has the latest. Reporter the number of coronavirus cases continues to climb. Nearly 64,000 new cases reported. Numbers rising in 80 of states across the u. S. , prompting Los Angeles Mayor
Shows the bigotry throughout liberal media and throughout the democratic party. Herman cain has died after battling the coronavirus. I will tell you, we have lost a giant of a person. His spirit was contagious. You get around herman, and you just felt like life was going to be okay. Ainsley 6 01 here on the east coast. Thanks for waking up with us. Yes, we got the news yesterday that herman cain who had run for president , he was a businessman and navy rocket scientists and he was an associate minister, he passed away yesterday from coronavirus. Our thoughts and our prayers are with his family and we are going to remember him coming up in the show. Brian i mean, yeah, what a blow that is. It was stunning because im looking back at the stories and they said he was having trouble recovering. Did he overcome cancer and able to beat stage 4 cancer once. And next thing you will know we get this devastating news. We will discuss that throughout the show. What a blizzard of news yesterday. It