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Misconduct is made against an uber driver, including claims of sexual assault, theres a special unit at the ride-sharing company expected to investigate each claim. weve obtained an internal memo that raises a lot of concerns. our senior investigative correspondent drew griffin has been reporting on the dangers faced by uber passengers for more than a year. heres his new report. >> reporter: this internal report obtained exclusively by cnn says ubers siu or special investigations unit, manages n...

Tonight a cnn exclusive. when an allegation of criminal misconduct is made against an uber driver, including claims of sexual assault, theres a special unit at the ride-sharing company expected to investigate each claim. weve obtained an internal memo that raises a lot of concerns. our senior investigative correspondent drew griffin has been reporting on the dangers faced by uber passengers for more than a year. heres his new report. >> reporter: this internal report obtained exclusively by cnn ...

Nearly 1,200 serious allegations of inappropriate or illegal conduct per week. one worker quoted in the report said the number of cases in a week is crazy. according to the document, the siu staff are mostly in their 20s and 30s, underpaid, overworked. some have little relevant experience according to a half dozen former uber employees cnn spoke with. one uber investigator went from being a starbucks shift manager to handling calls from victims. another was a kitchen manager at chipotle accordin...

We could go to work, and jason would lighten things up in a good way. >> reporter: keith pope was his teacher and coach. seaman played basketball. he was a track and field star. he was also a standout on the football field and went on to play at siu. polk says he was an all-around star. >> if hes not the best athlete here in 25 years, hes close to it. >> reporter: corey christiansen is a high school and college friend. he played football with seaman and looked up to him. >> get along with anybod...

The football field and went on to play at siu. pogue says he was an all-around star. >> if hes not the best athlete to come through here in the last 25 years, hes close to it. >> reporter: cory christianson is a high school and college friend. he played football with him. >> get along with anyone in school. hed go up to him if you needed help with anything. hed help me out. >> reporter: he got a noteification hosphone about the shooting but knew nothing. when he found out seaman was shot, he was...

Any little minute amount that might escape out of that or get on top of the surface as your handling, you can get an exposure and overdose, quickly and die. leland: youve had officers who had-- >> we had deputies this exposure one recently from siu and includes bus had officers a couple weeks ago that had exposure. leland: is that a testament to how potent the drugs are becoming? >> absolutely, you cut it with fentanyl, carfentanil and so powerful, they go farther and farther, but extremely dang...

Because he did not do well with hispanics. he did not do as well as he shouldve done with women. >> right. >> and the entire republican party since mitt romneys loss has been trying to fix that problem. and i think a lot of folks like mitt romney do not see trump as executing a strategy that is going to allow republicans to do better with those groups. >> all right. and i have to get you on biden here. it was your article this week that made so many waves. first of all, releasing that memo about...

Which i believe is the donations that come from -- >> the siu does the same thing. anytime theres a food protest, minimum wage protest, they do the exact same thing. right? >> i havent been paid anything. i protested before i came in. >> i dont know. >> the "washington times," they hired black lives matter protesters. it started at #cut the check after they had been stiffed by a.c.o.r.n. >> literally thousands of people are walking through cities, a good percentage of those people are paid. they...

Tonight. >> thank you. >> we have this from wcau the nbc affiliate in fell fill. philadelphia police detectives, siu, confirmed that brandon bastion, the engineer of that train handed over his cell phone to detectives and gave a blood sample. he interviewed earlier today and is expected to conduct another interview in the future. lieutenant stanford with the philadelphia police says that no one has been named as a suspect in the crash at this point. coming up more from the survivors of that cr...

Of the airplane as a system. so its not just adding a seat belt. its adding the proper materials, proper seat construction. keeping them secured to the floor and having them not so stiff that if you get slammed into them you dont break bones or split your head open. so theres a lot of things that have been done on airplanes over the last 50 years that the rail industry and the rail car industry could profit from by using that system inside. and i hope beyond all hope that this accident will driv...