NEW YORK, NY July 10, 2007 —New York and New Jersey will get a 7% increase in homeland security money, according to preliminary numbers from the federal government. Local officials say that's not good enough. WNYC's Bob Hennelly reports.

There is $747 million in federal money this year to beef up security in urban areas around the country. And hopes were high that the New York and New Jersey region would fare better than it did last year, when its grant money was cut by 40%.

At the time, Homeland Security officials took a major PR hit because they seemed to be arguing New York City had no national monuments or icons to protect and promises to revise the formula were made. But efforts to base all domestic security spending on a risk-based formula in favor of high-profile urban centers are stuck in Congress where rural states are resisting the change. For WNYC, I'm Bob Hennelly.