Experts say if you have one, take action now. Abc7s senior investigate evening reporter Lisa Fletcher joins us to tell us more about this. First, what is the standard . Why didnt ikea comply . Lisa the standard is something that the industry voluntary complies with. Each chest has to withstand 50 pounds of weight while open without toppling over. Most in industry abide by the idea. Ikea decided instead they would provide wall anchors, something common in european homes but foreign to most u. S. Consumers. In a matter of seconds, a curious child climbs up a piece of furniture and suddenly pinned beneath it. I went to the dresser. I saw his little head pokes up between the dresser and the bed. It had trapped his neck. Lisa gaucheries son jackies son was the first to die from the dresser. Enough is enough. Elliott kay runs the Consumer Product Safety Commission and encouraged ikea to launch a recall a year ago. The company only agreed to a repair Program Offering free wall anchor it cans.
No closed captioning is available for traffic. New this morning. The coast guard rescued a man . And his boat 12 miles offshore. Thanks to their quick response. Not only is that man safe so is his boat. Fox13s Shayla Reaves is live at air station clearwater thanks, shayla. A man shot after threatening officers in polk county has died. This is an update to a story weve been following for much of the week. During a traffic stop wednesday, officers say they were forced to fire on Francis Perry after he threatened them. No officers were hurt in the altercation. And this wasnt perrys first brush with the law. Take a look with a weapons charge at age . 11. He called himself freddy james. And portrayed himself as a buyer to people selling stuff online. But deputies say the name was fake and hes really a thief. And a murderer. His real name is victor manns. Yesterday morning polk county deputies took him into custody. Detectives say manns was using the online site let go to meet his victims. H
I4 and south. We are shy where we were yesterday. A really nice day. 72 in the villages and 73 in clermont. 75 this afternoon in orlando in winter park. Along the coast, we will be in the upper 60 s to the north and low to mid 70 s to the south in brevard. Let s get a traffic update, Jazmin Walker is in for ted this morning. Jazmin we are starting off with construction. Toll road, i95, i4 all up to speed. Traveling on the 408 westbound on by i4, you will have to move over. I4 at john young parkway, traffic is moving up to speed. From 436 to colonial, that should take you 10 minutes. Everything else is up to speed as well. Michelle following breaking news in south Orange County this robbery. Jason it happened after 2 00 at gator s sports bar near sunset lake. Alex villareal is live at the scene. We know you just spoke to deputies, what are they telling you . We are having a little bit of trouble here with alex s microphone. What we know is this is it gators dockside in Orange County. It
Least three dead. Many striking at night, as people slept. You need to pull over. Reporter in pensacola, florida, campbell and his girlfriend making it to their driveway, riding out the tornado in his pickup truck. Oh, my god. All i could hear was sounded as if i parked my truck next to a train. Reporter the ef3 tornado packing 155mileperhour winds, damaging more than 100 homes here. These people didnt have very much time to react at all. Very little. Reporter including these apartments. Look at this, the entire second story of this apartment complex ripped off. You can see right into peoples living rooms. Look at that thing coming in here like this. Reporter twisters claiming the lives of at least three others, including two at this louisiana r. V. Park. Where ashley east and her family were huddling together. What was it like going through that tornado . What were you thinking . Let us get through this. Reporter david, the tornado ripped through this neighborhood, destroying this hom
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