Terror Prediction Elicits Exasperation

New York's most powerful elected officials are meeting with the Homeland Security secretary, Michael Chertoff, in Washington today, to press him for more security funding.

The meeting, which will be attended by Senators Clinton and Schumer and by Governor Spitzer, comes a day after the Mr. Chertoff said he told the Chicago Tribune that he had a "gut feeling" about a terror attack this summer. The comment elicited critical responses from both Mr. Schumer and Mrs. Clinton.

New York officials have been arguing for more than a year that the federal government should give more homeland security money to cities at a greater terror risk.

"Hopefully, Secretary Chertoff's premonition signals a change in his thinking about how much funding to send New York this year," Mr. Schumer said in a statement.