erica. >> hill: elaine quijano elaine, thanks. another summer resort area, cape cod, massachusetts, is also in earl's path. we find dean reynolds in chatham tonight. dean, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, erica. well, don't be fooled by the beautiful weather on the cape. they know what's out there, and they-- the word along the shoreline is "leave," and preferably "leave now." sailors were lining up to haul their boats ashore as hurricane warnings went up the flag poles along the coast. is this a potentially dangerous storm? >> absolutely. >> reporter: heavy rain and winds up to 75 miles an hour are expected in seashore areas, meaning that the two bridges on and off cape cod will be closed once the storm hits. if they close those bridges, are people marooned here? >> they'll have to turn around and come back from where they came from. >> reporter: now officials are concerned people will wait until the last minute to leave and be stuck in a traffic jam so large they'll be sitting in it when the storm hits late friday or ear

elaine quijano is at the site of the proposed islamic center just blocks from ground zero and has that story. elaine, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, harry. well, tonight imam feisal abdul rauf is making clear he has no plans to move the proposed islamic cultural center and mosque away from the location behind me, just two blocks away from ground zero. in a written statement, just released a short time ago, the imam said: now, in another twist today, real estate developer donald trump today offered to buy the proposed site for 25% above what the developer paid for it. in a letter, trump explained he was making the offer... but tonight, that offer was flatly rejected. a lawyer for the project investor says that trump's offer was, "a cheap attempt to get publicity and get in the lime light." harry? >> smith: elaine quijano downtown for us tonight. thank you. in afghanistan, the taliban has been using this controversy to win new recruits. today, cbs news obtained taliban leaflets that urged villagers to join them in seeking revenge. mandy clark is in kabul tonight. >> repo

elaine quijano with a case in point in new york. >> reporter: more than three months, michelle muoios been picketing the plant where she's worked for 15 years, mott's apple juice in western new york. >> you wave to them they might beep to you. >> reporter: 300 union members are locked in a heated dispute symbolizing a new shift in the power struggle between management and labor in america. companies typically ask for labor concessions when they're losing money, but mott's parent company-- dr. pepper/snapple-- is making record profits, more than half a billion dollars. yet workers are being asked to take a $1.50 an hour wage cut and a pension freeze. >> we need the fair share. if you're making half a billion dollars profit after all expenses, we should share in that. >> reporter: the company argues mott's workers earn far more than their counterparts in the area, an average of $19 an hour versus $14. >> when there's a situation where you have wages and benefits that are out of line with the local market and industry norms, however difficult it may be, it's something that we have an ob

>> couric: elaine quijano. elaine, thank you.other news, long-time nbc news correspondent edwin newman has died. in more than 30 years at the network as a reporter, anchor, and moderator of "meet the press," newman covered every major story of his era, including the assassination of president kennedy. >> the president was shot and wounded in the left side of his chest. >> reporter: newman was a stickler for good writing. he hated cliches and misuse of the english language. don't dare use hopefully as an adverb. a sign in his office read "abandon hopefully all ye who enter here." edwin newman was 91. ferent -- it's calcium citrate, so it can be absorbed with or without food. citracal. fortunately, there's new crest pro-health clinical gum protection toothpaste. it helps remove plaque at the gumline, helping prevent gingivitis. and it's even been clinically proven to help reverse it in just four weeks. new crest pro-health clinical toothpaste. how new is the new edge with myford touch? well you could never do this before. or this.

elaine quijano reports. >> reporter: for more than three months, michelle has been picketing the plantshe's worked for 15 years, mott's apple juice in western new york. 300 union members are locked in a heated dispute, symbolizing a new shift in the power struggle between management and labor in america. companies typically ask for labor concessions when they're losing money. but mott's parent company, dr. pepper snapple, is making record profits, more than half a billion dollars. yet workers are being asked to take a $1.50 an hour wage cut and a pension freeze. >> we need the fair share. if you're making half a billion after expenses, we should share in that. >> reporter: the company claims mott's workers make far more than their counterparts. >> when there's a situation that you have wages and benefits out of line with the local market, it's something that we have an obligation to address. >> reporter: labor experts say generally the longer a strike drags on, the more likely it is a company will get its way. but these workers say they'll continue to hold out until the company comes u

. >> couric: elaine quijano. thank you very much, elaine. in other news tonight, iran has postponed the release of an american woman who's been held on spy charges. yesterday the iranians said 31-year-old sarah shourd would be released on saturday. but today the chief prosecutor in tehran said the legal process has not been completed. shourd and two friend were arrested last year while hiking along the iran/iraq border. here at home, the medal of honor is this nation's highest military honor, awarded to those who risk their lives beyond the call of duty. today the white house said army staff sergeant salvatore junta will become the first living recipient from one of the current wars. three years ago, junta's platoon was ambushed in afghanistan. he took a bull throat the chest but was saved by his body armor. then wounded and under enemy fire he pulled a fellow soldier to safety and rescued a second who had been carried away by insurgents. junta, 25 years old from hiawatha, iowa, is still serving in the army in italy. and still ahead here on

>> hill: elaine quijano in montauk tonight. thanks. so what's happening to earl and what can we expect tonight? david bernard is our cbs news hurricane consultant and chief meteorologist at cbs 4 miami. david, of course, this was a powerful category four storm at one point, peak winds of 145 miles per hour. it seems to be weakening rather quickly. what's happening? >> well, it's pretty simple, erica. let's look at the map where this storm is located now. it's moving from very favorable warm water in the 80s to water temperatures in the 70s, and a cold front is coming toward the east coast, that's helping to push earl out, and that's not a real favorable factor for strengthening, either. so those two things together are causing earl to weaken quite a bit. >> hill: while it is weakening quickly, this doesn't exactly mean folks in new england are in the clear tonight, david. >> no, erica, it will be a nasty night in new england, particularly in rhode island, massachusetts, and coastal areas of maine. radar and satellite indicates heavy sq

cbs news correspondent elaine quijano reports on that. >> reporter: wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour. knocked down power lines that apparently parked the spires on detroit's east side. the blaze jumped streets and tore through four neighborhoods, destroying at least two dozen homes. >> one house spread to five. they sent one unit. spread to nine. it has been spreading ever since. >> reporter: detroit firefighters ranked thin by recent layoffs called in help from several surrounding cities. but emotional residents complained about what they called a slow response. >> took them over an hour, don't make no sense. >> reporter: at least 113,000 homes and businesses were without power tuesday. remarkably no one was reported injured. elaine quijano, cbs news, new york. >> this morning bp has released the findings of an internal investigation into that oil rig explosion that led to a massive oil leak. bp says a sequence failures and multiple companies were responsible for that disaster and bp blamed a bad cement job, faulty pressure test and failure of the blowout preventer. 16 minutes past

and that's -- of course, where we find elaine quijano on long island. laine. >> good morning to you dave. already as you can see behind me here in the northeast, the surf is churning and authorities, as you noted, are very much on alert urging people to be prepared. as you mentioned as well a far north as massachusetts, a hurricane watch issued for parts that stay state. meantime here on the coast of new york's long island, a tropical storm warning is in effect as well. and we talked to a lifeguard yesterday. he was already concerned about the powerful waves in and dangerous rip currents as well as the people flocking to the beach here this labor day weekend. just here on this beach alone yesterday, lifeguards had to pull four people from the water. and the wind and waves are only expected to get worse. as hurricane earl approaches. that's it from here. west hampton beach. now let's go back to new york and betty nguyen at the news desk. >>> good morning to you at home. we are learning more about the gunman that burst into the discovery channel's headquar