Save a raw, *.cr2 file, as a jpeg

I have PSE 9.0 on my MAC. I shoot mostly RAW photos. This produces a *.cr2 suffix. When I edit it, the image opens in the Abode Camera Raw plug-in. After I have finished processing in the Camera Raw plug-in, I click OPEN and the photo opens in the PSE 9.0 editor. When I have finished editing, I select Save As. There are several formats to save the image in but *.jpg is not listed. I'm stuck since I do not know how to get the jpg option. Any suggestions?

JPG won't be listed if you are saving a 16-bit photo, because JPGs are 8-bits. You probably have TIF and PSD and just a few other formats listed, that allow 8 or 16-bits.
You can do one of two things: in PSE convert to 8 bits, or in ACR set the output to 8 bits instead of 16-bits.
I don't have PSE, but in PS, converting to 8-bits is Image / Mode / 8-bits. I expect PSE has something similar.
In ACR under PS, you set the bits with the blue link at the bottom where you also set the output colorspace (sRGB, AdobeRGB, ProPhotoRGB) and I think you can do the same with ACR hosted in PSE, although I'm not sure.
Setting ACR to output 8-bits intead of 16-bit is the easiest, but if you do a lot of post-processing in PSE, after ACR, then keeping 16-bits out of ACR and converting to 8-bits before saving as a JPG in PSE would be the safest because you'll get posterization or banding of gradients a lot more when adjusting 8-bit photos due to their being only 256 levels per each R,G,B channel. 16-bits has 65536 or maybe it's down to 32768 levels per channel.

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