jenna:. jenna: brand new stories and breaking news. jon: national security concerns and the sequester as we get new numbers how many i am legals were freed because of the federal budget cuts plus how they re affecting you. a new cyber threat. hackers targeting folks that use online banking. what america s financial institutions are doing to try to keep your money safe. plus a new monster snowstorm is shaping up. this one could be the worst of the season of the we ll tell you about it happening now. jon: some new concerns about sequestration and how the cuts could affect our national security. good monday morning to you, i m jon scott. jenna: hi, everybody, glad you re with us today, i m jenna lee of. after the controversy heats up after the department of homeland security releases illegals facing deportation we have new numbers how many were freed. the department of homeland security secretary janet
phone. reporter: that last sound was a gunshot being fired into the air by one of the masked men. another assailant hit a guard with the butt of a gun. authorities say this could have been a disaster since it happened in broad daylight in a crowded area. for something like this to happen at that time of the day, it s a concern whenever it happens, but with so many people around and a mixture of crowds and firearms, and offenders who may be desperate to get what necessity want. obviously there is a risk to the public. reporter: armed police were quickly at the scene sealing off the area. luckily no one was seriously injured according to the australian media. the assailants did not get money but escaped in a car. authorities are searching frantically for the men afraid they ll strike again. jon: patti ann brown at the breaking news desk thank you. jenna: new concerns about the puzzling partnership between china and iran after we just learned the united states navy intercepted chine
had a plus-ten favorable rating among the reporters, in terms of the coverage. there it is, that s right there. and romney was minus 16. plus ten for obama and minus 16 for romney. would i say that mrs. romney had a point in her kit sis eupl yesterday. jon: and that graphic there shows ho shows how much coverage each candidate got in the last week. president obama got more stories written about him and television coverage. you know, she could have well, she actually did talk about a lot of other things, alan but the media has been focusing on her comment about the media. the media loves talking about the media, doesn t it? you know, she is protective of her husband and she certainly exhibits that and i think that is a great quality. but blaming the campaign, it was the campaign who kind of kept a lid on mitt romney, didn t let him out i mean they really controlled him very strongly, and it would have been nice to
it remains to be seen what kind of effect the sequester will have but this could hurt obama s standing because they made that case that this was going to be very difficult. we ll feel the effects. on friday they had to backtrack and president saying this will not be the apocalypse. jon: so he has lost credibility? i think on the sequester fight he stumble ad bit. the administration got into a needless fight over bob woodward over the sequester. that was a distraction. they had to backtrack on the effect it would have, at least the immediate effect of it. president obama is doing pretty well as far as the poll numbers. he clearly won the fiscal cliff battle with republicans but that was more because of republican missteps than what obama did. so remains to be seen. i think the biggest fight upcoming will be the debt ceiling fight. obama said he is not going to deal on that. i wants a clean increase in the debt ceiling. republicans on capitol hill see that fight very differently. they
revenue. now the president puts an offer to speaker boehner on the table in december, even though the speaker walked away from the negotiations he kept that offer on. we ve got to begin to cut spending and we promise the american people we would do it a year and a half ago and we re going to do it. reporter: she is to head the office of management and budget. she is currently head of the wal-mart foundation, jon. jon: what about the other two nominees, what can you tell us? reporter: each will head an agency that raised controversy in the obama administration. mit professor ernest monise is the choice it head the energy department which is criticized for approving a government-backed loan for solar panel maker solyndra and doubling down to provide more money before solyndra went bankrupt. gina mccarthy is the epa assistant administrator for air and radiation. she will take over the administration under intense skrut from republicans who are afraid of greenhouse gas