warned the singer not to attempt the jump. no comment yet from miguel. wasn t a great jump, was it? definitely a misfire. lawsuit written all over it. ahead on starting point, chrysler saying no to a recall of millions of its vehicles said to be plagued with faulty fuel tanks. hi why is chrysler saying no to the recall? food trays flying in the air in what s supposed to be a routine flight. this is the result. how bad things got on board. residents of one florida city trying to solve a big mystery. who among them won a $590 million powerball ticket? where s the winner? you re watching starting point. this is the tempur-pedic innovation lab. it s like a front row seat to our latest technologies. here is where our engineers do their constant improving. we have helped over 7 million people fall in love with their tempur-pedic. and now for my favorite part of the tour.
also an important one for anyone who s concerned about the government s ability to regulate our roads. reporter: in a rare act of defiance, car company giant chrysler refuses to recall almost 2.7 million vehicles. as requested by the national highway traffic safety administration. for nearly two decades, some jeep suv models have had a tendency to burst into flames after a rear end collision. the nhtsa is requesting that upgrades to the older models be installed to keep fires from starting. it s a bad design. if it s harmful to people and if it occurs repeatedly. that s all been the fact here. reporter: the models in question are 1993 to 2004 cheje grand cherokees and 2002 to 2007 jeep liberties. the company says it s been working with the government on the fuel tank fire issue since 2010. chrysler says their suvs met the
that type of vehicle built at that time. reporter: recalls aren t unusual. but thi is the first time since 1996 that an automaker has challenged a recall demand from the nhtsa. that case also involved chrysler. and the company prevailed in a two-year federal court battle. so we could have another fight on our hands. as one analyst said, chrysler is taking a risk by taking on the government. because even if they win this battle, there s no way to predict the impact all this could have on future sales. christine, john? thanks, athena jones. singapore airlines flight was about an hour into a routine flight from singapore to london last week when suddenly this happened. look at these photos taken after the plane experienced some severe turbulence in flight. the aircraft dropped about 65 feet in five seconds. 11 passengers were injured as well as one crew member. passenger allen cross took these photos. this is what he had to say about those terrifying moments on
apple products that could soon be banned. i m not kidding. the iphone 3, 3 gs and ipad and ipad 2, at&t versions only. this comes after the international trade commission ruled those products violated a sam sung patent. the ban also goes knee infect if apple s appeal fails and the decision is upheld. some analysts say it shouldn t hit the company s bottom line too much because it doesn t affect the newer, more popular models. it is a blow for apple in what has been an endless patent war with samsung. it s really interesting. apple and samsung have been fighting, fighting, fighting in court and the u.s. and all over the world. apple lost and now an international trade court saying i m holding up my iphone 4. about it time the appeals process over, there will be three more it ragss of all of them. chrysler is taking on federal safety regulators rejecting a request to recall nearly three
minimum standards for rear end collisions. but in a june 3rd letter from nhtsa to chrysler the agency said bluntly, quote, the existence of a minimum standard does not require nhtsa to ignore deadly problems. chrysler responded in a statement saying, we believe that nhtsa s initial conclusions are based on an incomplete analysis of the underlying data. and we are committed to continue working with the agency to resolve this disagreement. but it s the data that s scaring some consumer advocates. the center for auto safety says its data shows the risk of fire for a grand cherokee in the model years in question is more than 20 times greater than the risk in a comparable ford explorer. chrysler contends that their gas tanks on these vehicles were built according to government safety standards available at this time and basically that there is no problem. that the number of people who ve died in rear end collisions is far lower than safety organizations are alleging. and that at any rate