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Some 700 remain in government custody as a court ordered deadline to reunite families expired. the group that brought the lawsuit, aclu, disagreeing over eligibility points. the hard work beginning. the government not offering a timeline to track down the parents deported or otherwise unaccounted for. here is tal kopan. >> reporter: the deadline has come and gone and we have new numbers on how many of those were reunited on time. the government last night gave us an update that roughly 1,400 of the families were eligible and reunited by thursday evening. they said another almost 400 of those c...

Uber's background checks are failing. when colorado's public safety commissioner heard about a man who was allegedly assaulted by an uber driver, he demanded a list from uber of all its drivers with disqualifying records. >> frankly, we were shocked by what we found. >> the list he got from uber included 12 uber drivers convicted of felonies and others with duis or driving on suspended licenses. what does that tell you about the background process? >> tells me that the background process as it is in law right now doesn't work. >> according to uber, the company's policy disqualifies drivers con...

Driving on suspended licenses. what does that tell you about the background process? >> the background process as it is in law now doesn't work. >> reporter: according to uber, the company's policy disqualifies drivers with claims like these. but in case after case, convicted felons have been approved to drive anyway. in maryland, massachusetts, and california, governor agencies found what add up to thousands of drivers with disqualifying criminal records, even sexual offenders, approved to work for uber. in texas, approved uber drivers included a murderer on parole and a convicted felon once ...

Abusing passengers. cnn's senior investigative correspondent drew griffin broke that story for us and he's continuing to look at uber's practices and whether your ride home is safe. drew, what more are you learning? >> uber's background check system is failing and in thousands of cases, criminals are behind the wheel driving for uber. when colorado's public safety commissioner heard about a man who was allegedly assaulted by an uber driver, he demanded a list from uber of all its drivers with disqualifying records. >> frankly, we were shocked by what we found. >> reporter: the list he got from...

Was last month. since then, as you know, the whole issue of security clearances has blown up into a full scale disaster for the trump white house. following revelations about rob porter, the white house staff secretary who lost that job following news reports about serious domestic violence allegations against him from both of his ex wives. those news reports about those domestic violation allegations, those were revelations to all of us and the public but it turned out the white house had known for a long time. the ex wives had been interviewed by the fbi as part of rob porter's background pr...