And off the field last night. A sinkhole 200 feet across and growing. That and much more on cbs this Morning Saturday, august 3rd, 2013. Captioning funded by cbs and good morning. Welcome to the weekend. Nice to see you. I know. Nice weather ahead in new york as well. I hope so yeah. We begin today with the al qaeda Terror Threat that led the state department to close 22 embassies and consulates in cities across the muslim world. U. S. Officials also issue add global alert warning, americans everywhere to take precautions. Jeff pegues has the latest. Embassyies and them closing down. S he ee directed his National Security team to take all appropriate steps to protect the american people. U. S. Officials are increasingly concerned about al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and its master bomb maker who allegedly built the underwear bomb used to nearly blow up an airliner on Christmas Day at detroit metropolitan airport. All of our explosive detection equipment which screens over a million checked bags every day just in the u. S. Wasnt calibrated to detect that. Reporter there are a few specific details about what kind of attack could be in the works. Analysts believe somewhere in yemen is the most likely target and ominously warn it could be anywhere in the arc of mostly muslim countries. Already the government plans to build 22 consulates and embassies beginning tomorrow. The state department is alerting u. S. Citizens for what it calls the continued potential for terrorist attacks with Public Transportation and other infrastructures as the terror targets. Obviously its important that we ensure that everyone is safe overseas. Other western countries are affected by this as well. Britain has closed its embassy in yemen and is urging all of its citizens to leave the country. That travel alert, by the way, until the end of the month. Anthony . Jeff pegues in our washington bureau. Thank you, jeff. For more on this were joined by our National Security analyst want zahrajuan zarate. Good morning, juan. Good morning, anthony. You hear in the piece its a sear krus threat. How serious is it for them to take these kinds of steps . Well, anthony, i dont think youd see it unless they were concerned that this was a real and significant plot from a serious terrorist group and every indication suggests that this is real plotting real planning by al qaeda. They dont have specificity with respect to the timing itself. Theyre taking general precautions of a type that you rarely see. You know when you mention state department, i think the natural thing for people to think about is benghazi. Im curious. Are some of the lessons we learned in that situation being transferred over here . Absolutely vinita. I think the state department was stung by the realities of the tragedy of benghazi and the criticism that came, the fact that they did not see recruiter those diplomatic posts at a time when the threats in eastern benghazi libya, were rising. Theyre not going to take any chances and so they are protecting the facilities abroad and the personnel with them. Juan it would seem to me in closing the embassies we also thn create a rink at a point when we choose to reopen them. Is there not a concern there . Absolutely, anthony. Theres a question as to when this threat really abates. If were not able to get to the bottom of the threat if we dont really get information or able to disrupt it definitively the question for officials is at what point do we reopen the doors of our embassies . We have to do diplomacy. We have to be present. The key question is at what point is the threat no longer real and the reality for intelligence officials is we never know. Remember in 2010 we had a serious threat by eeofficials. No one knows what really happened to that threat. That was a problem for the officials. We may never know ultimately what was planned here. Can you put this into context for us . We hear these threats from time to time. But what does it say about the broader war on terror . Where are we right now . Well vinita theres been a lot of talk especially after the death of bin laden, the core aill qaeda is largely decimated. Groups like al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and yemen where the threats are believed to come from these are groups that are not only strategically savvy but operationally very good and still committed to attacking the united states. And that mean whence you see information coming from a group like that that theyre intent on hitting u. S. Interests, we have to take it seriously. Juan, thank you. Juan zarate in washington. Thank you. The latest Terror Threat will be up for discussion tomorrow morning on face the nation. Bob schieffers greft will be senator Chuck Schumer and paul ryan. This could be the intense weekend for the leagues highest paid player Alex Rodriguez. He played in a minors game but afterward faced tough questions. Don dahler has more. Good morning, vinita. Once upon a time there was an exciting young player named arod. He was peg add superstar and for a while he didnt disappoint becoming the youngest player to reach 500 home runs and then to reach f 600, but that was then. For one shining moment last night Alex Rodriguez reminding all of baseball who he used to be. The home run was a momentary distraction from what the highest paid player in baseball is known for now. Alex are you prepared to fight bud selig on any suspensions he may hand down . You know i cant comment on that right now. Its still an ongoing investigation. I will follow with due process. Reporter according to a Major League Team executive, rodriguez is up to one of 15 players facing suspension or worse for performanceenhancing drug use tied to a notorious florida clennic. Fans at last nights game were conflicted. I think hes bringing a lot of bad and negative publicity to the team. Im kind of hoping this might be the end for him and were not going to see him again. I think it would be sad for baseball, one of the greatest players going down like that. Reporter the other players are expected to receive 50game suspensions but arod is in a field all his own. A source with knowledge of the investigation says hes facing a much longer suspension or even a lifetime ban. Are they trying to make an example of him because he is such a big name . They feel he actively tried to obstruct the investigation. They feel like he recruited players. They felt its time to hit him with the biggest a penalty we can come up with. Reporter the source tells us theyre giving rodriguez two exceptions. Stay out the rest of the season or fight it. The latter would cost him the remainder of his contract 100 million. Arod would lose approximately 34 million if he takes a long suspension, but he still makes 60 million when he returns at the age of 40. Now whats lost in all the talks of suspension and money is a man once considered one of the greatest players ever has seen his reputation and the possibility of a place in the hall of fame go down in flames. Vinita . Don dahler thank you. Sean gregory is a Senior Writer for Time Magazine and has followed it closely. Good morning to you, sean. Good morning. Whats been happening the past two weeks . Is it the money or the game . What are they arguing about right now . Its a game of chicken. Baseball has an incentive to get arod out of here and arod knows this. If he doesnt accept the suspension theyre offering he can drag it out and get the best deal he can. For all practical purposes, sean, this isnt really about him playing anymore. Even in the minimal suspension he comes back when hes 39 right, and basically his career is over. This is really game about money isnt it . Its game about money and the message they want to send. Were cleaning this up. We have to see the evidence but if he was on struktding with the investigation, recruiting other players to biogenesis bud selig gets to send a message that what he did was as serious as pete rose and anybody else did if a lifetime ban is thrown out there. Its been fascinating to watch. Arod has never tested positive for anything. Its all incriminating. People are wondering if bud selig is being too aggressive talking about a lifetime ban . Are they making him a scapegoat . We have to see the evidence. If everything makes it so obvious that he did more than just use p. E. D. S a little bit its not beyond the realm of fairness. Also arod is talking out of both sides of his mouth. You know he gave lectures to kids, dont do steroids dont do steroids in 2009 after admitting to doing it. If he did steroids in 2009 the yankees won the world series when he was doing steroids. Lance armstrong also never testified positive but there can be krinlincriminating evidence. Put some light on what don dahler was talking about. A few years ago they thought he was going to pass barry bonds and set the home run record. Now look at where he is. One thing people were saying is, you know dont worry about this dont get too stressed about this. I went back and looked at that. It was left with oh im embarrassed. It was sad and the end of the story was, you know it would be nice to smile about a slugger once again and were not smiling. In this moment i didnt see hank aaron pass babe ruth. I wanted that a home run record. Now, theres so many questions. Arod will do it. Doesnt look like its going to happen. You missed out twice. What about the postseason. A lot of people said it needed to happen by friday or sunday because then it makes the others eligible for the postseason. Is that sending a mixed message . Were going to come down hard on you but you can play in the playoffs. Remember the giants had melky cabrera. He was suspended and they didnt want him back. Fascinating subject. Thank you. Thank you. A stomach outbarack has been linked to salads served at two restaurants and the salad comes from a plant in mexico. Investigators are working to see if the same illness is to blame for the other sicknesses in 14 states. Reporter cyclospora was found in salad that came from a plant in mexico. Cyclospora is a microscopic parasite that can cause diarrhea abdominal pain and flulike symptoms. Contaminated food or water is the most Common Source of the infection in women. In a statement on its website, taylor farms says the mexico facility is state of the art and has an exceptional food safety record. The company is also working with the fda on an environmental assess mnlts of taylor farms in mexico and is cooperating with the fda in their ongoing investigation. More than 400 cases of cyclospora have been reported in 16 states but so far infections in iowa and nebraska are the only ones investigators can link together. There are outbreaks of cyclospora going on. At this point we cant connect the two. Reporter Health Officials do not believe the tainted salad mix is still in is supply chain. The shelf life is usually about two weeks and according to the fda, no supermarkets were involved in the outbreak. For cbs this Morning Saturday, los angeles. One of the victims of the cleveland kidnapping returned. She thanked them for their help in rescuing her and two other women in may. The house is now boarded up. Neighbors were excited to see knight. I think thats brilliant. Shes very happy. Shes thankful for the people that helped her. Neighbors say the other two women held captive have also returned to thank the block and the neighbors. The house is scheduled to be torn down soon. Michelle knight wants a park with a statue of an angel put in its place. Thousands of supporters of ousted former president morsi friday night Clarissa Ward is in cairo. Good morning, clarissa. Whats the situation there this morning . Reporter good morning, anthony and vinita. Deputy burns is here in cairo. Trying to prevent further violence violence. He has met with the countrys defense minister general ceecee the former minister. Once again this city was con vul jed by massive street demonstrations with Police Firing tear gas on ousted supporters of morsi. State run television ran a report saying security sources were ready to cordon off the area in 48 hours. That would be by tomorrow afternoon. The interior minister denied the report, but certainly this is fueling speculation that Security Forces are looking at other ways to try and break up these protests that possibly instead of going in there forcefully and trying to push the protesters ow they may look at ways to bring the protesters out, possibly by cutting off their water or food supplies. Certainly here in cairo theres a sense that patience is wearing thin but they want people to deal with the camps and deal with the Muslim Brotherhood once and for all and is that means that the window appears to be naer rowing and burns certainly has his work cut out for him. Vinita and thoents . Clarissa ward in cairo. Thank you, clarissa. Employers added a modest 162,000 jobs. That was enough to push the Unemployment Rate down to 7. 4 . Here to help us is lauren lyster. Good morning. Good morning, guys. They thought it would be 185,000. Indeed. Its bad report. Its a disappointing report. I know it seemed mixed, the lowest rating on the year that sounds great however, it could be because more people drop out of the labor force because we saw the Participation Rate drop. Not what you want to see. At the same time the jobs that you referred to was below expectations, which is never good, and on slower pace than what weve seen. Its slowly improving the jobs market, however its a disappointing report. These werent particularly great jobs either. Yeah. Most of the jobs added were in retail or leisure and hosstalt which includes restaurants and bars. So these are not exactly the highest paying jobs. Theyre low. This was the first drop since october and in general wages have risen 1. 9 to keep up with inflation. That could be why even though jobs are improving, we dont see people being comforted by the improve managements because if youre not making more money, you dont feel grade grate. Exactly. Whats happening . What was the are e response from this report . The market did wait does on so many days. Struggled a bit, went down on bad news and rose to another record. What do you know . Its really a complicated kind of scenario throw. Its not reacting to norway news. Its reacting to what is Federal Reserve policies. Perhaps a disappointing jobs report will taper its policies bond buying layer rather than sooner. The feds going to stay in the game. Yeah. Its almost like they dont want the economy to be too hot or too cold. In this case they think the fed will leave things where they are right now, right . The status quo. The policies have been boosting price, namely stock. So its a very significant number. One point i would make on the low wage drops that i think dries it home we had dan albert who did a whole analysis of it. He found that 57 of the job in the first half of the year have been in these low wage sectors. He said were becoming a naks of burger flippers. Those are his words, not mine, that create ss a difference. Its still going to take us until the next year to get is to 6 minnesota 5 Unemployment Rate that ben bernanke wants us to get to right . Exactly. Thats why he keeps saying, you know tapering isnt tightening. Were keeping rates low, the fed fund rates until at least unemployment is 6 president 5 . The targets a little higher in terms of winding down the bond buyer mortgage but i think the mem has said were not going anywhere. Disappointly but not the worth we even seen. Thanks guys. Ellen degeneres has been capped to host the awards. This year the master of ceremonies was seth mcfarland. His performance drew mixed reviews but great ratings. The oscars will be hosted on march 2nd. Thats a really big surprise. They were targeting the yummer demographic because of seth mcfarland. And my son whos 12 years old watched it because of seth. Was he happy . Well yeah. Heres a look at the weather for your weekend. Defense. Why some are now calling the man accused of 19 murders a coward. 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