i think that's one of the challenges. >> reporter: we asked for a statement from sterling backcheck, the company that issued kevin jones' background report. it declined comment. but in a court filing, the company denied the allegations and any liability to jones or other plaintiffs. jones' would-be employers, halstead and brown harris stevens, said in a statement they engage an independent, third party provider to complete background checks and "if there was a case of mistaken identity by our screening company, we are nonetheless sympathetic to mr. jones' situation and have so informed his counsel. we support the fair credit reporting act and believe that we are fully compliant with its requirements." >> certainly the one or two that come through that ha... may have a potential issue are the ones that become more noteworthy and noticeable. what you don't necessarily hear about are the millions of successful screens that are happening each and every day. >> reporter: melissa sorenson is the executive director of the national association of professional background screeners, an industry group with about 700 members, incl

medina had a different take: "considering that i have been hampered by this for years, i can speak on it. yes, it is okay. i brought this trouble on myself." then there are cases like kevin jones, who, as we reported, lost a job offer because he was mistaken for another kevin jones. beverly marler sowa wrote: "google your name and see how many people with the same name show up. the chances of mixing you up with someone else are huge." as always, let us know what you think of our stories on twitter, facebook or at newshour.pbs.org. >> sreenivasan: some more news before we leave you tonight. hundreds of people marched peacefully through the streets of ferguson, missouri, to a makeshift memorial honoring michael brown. michael sam, who was set to become the first openly gay player in the national football league, was released by the st. louis rams today. and kraft is recalling 8,000 cases of american singles, which expire in february of 2015. the company says they were stored improperly and could make people sick. more details on our web site. i'm hari sreenivasan, thanks for watching. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> pbs new

a fast food company before and that didn't work out well. >> by the way, kevin, before we go, let us draw your attention to the fact dow jones industrial averageere just hit a new intraday trading high. 17152 now. >> also i am in a good mood. kelly, my point on this, and kayla, we talked about it recently as well. watching pe expansion. earnings haven't changed much. still on tractor a buck 15 on the s&p and we just had gone through the second quarter earnings and look on track. if you're a believer the rest of the year will make it there the only thing to draw this market further pe expansion. we're having that hoappen right now. geopolitical risk aside, expansion on the way 20 times. thank you very much. >> kevin o'leary, a tim horton shareholder, "shark tank" extraordinaire. thank you for joining us as the dow jones industrial average kayla, now trading at 17148. both it and the s&p 500 here this morning setting new intraday highs. >> of course, 152 is that number to watch. that is that dow train day high. the s&p sitting at its intraday high at 2004 now. seeing nasdaq up by 11 points too. mixed data this morning. home prices not as good as