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The company to block the service over its allegedly shoddy background techs. cnn money technology correspondent rory segal has more on the story. >> it's been a rough couple weeks. you had a passenger allegedly raped in new delhi. this isn't good for the company's image. you go to their own back yard in california where the business is booming. they decided that they've been sending cease and desist orders for the past year. the san francisco d.a. says there's something wrong with the screening process. he spoke to me specifically about the background checks. take a listen. >> the quote, unquo...

To link anything on mental health with an effort on the expanded background checks. that may be your preference. i don't know. but do you want to not see your bill pass if it ends up -- if it gets tied to the gun control, politics of that, and then your bill doesn't pass, is that a failure? >> well, i certainly didn't want to see the mental health bill in the house or the senate for that matter go down. i think it's important that we go forward. i also believe that expanded background checks are an important part of the answer. we have ten categories of people in this country including people ...

>> they did. they ran the background check through that federal database. you know, the criminal background system, it's a federal database. it's instant. it's done on site. he was waiting inside while they ran this, like i said he was here for a couple of hours. the problem was there were no convictions, nothing that was a red flag that would tell the gun shop owners you can't sell this gun to this man. here in virginia, you can't legally buy a handgun with an out-of-state license. but you can buy a rifle or a shotgun. in this case, aaron alexis had a valid driver's license from texas. and it...

Victory by folks in the nra. he criticized the obama administration for failing to prosecute the felons and fugitives trying to purchase guns under the existing background system. let's listen to more of what he had to say. >> i would like to invite the vice president if he believes the answer to violent crime is not prosecuting felons and fugitives and not prosecuting guns rights but going after the constitutional rights of law abiding citizens, i would like to invite the vice president to engage in an hour-long conversation and debate. how do we stop crime? >> reporter: and so there you hear...

One thing that we need to do, too, make sure that we investigate the fact that these guys had guns. have they slipped through our background system? that is an important inquiry, too. i hope we are looking into the question as to whether they had those guns legally. i know they were in the country legally. >> we know that the 19-year-old was under age so he wouldn't be abe to pass a background check on that alone. that is part of the investigation. neither of them had a license to carry a gun in massachusetts. we'll continue to follow that as well. thank you so much for your time. thank you. ...