Rosa Flores' 5 p.m. update | Doctors on Emilio's condition

Tejano singer Emilio Navaira will soon be moved out of ICU at Memorial Hermann Hospital.

The singer’s wife, Maria, made the announcement at a news conference Friday morning.

Maria Navaira said that doctors told her that Emilio is out of danger.

She said that the 45-year-old singer has spoken.

The singer has asked about when he can go home and has also asked about his children. He has also said the word baby, his wife said.

Navaira was upgraded from critical to fair condition earlier this week.

Police say he was behind the wheel of his tour bus on March 23 when it slammed into a collection of freeway barrels on the West Loop and 59 in Bellaire.

Navaira was critically hurt when he was thrown from the bus. He even underwent two brain surgeries.

Doctor Alex Valadka at Memorial Hermann Hospital has been treating the singer. “It’s been hard to evaluate him, since he’s been in the Intensive Care Unit. Now that he’ll be leaving there and can interact a lot more, we’ll have a little bit better idea.”

Valadka said one of the most significant signs of improvement occured nearly two weeks ago. "He actually wrote his own name. That was one of the first signs we got that he was getting better."

Despite that, Valadka said, there's no telling if the singer will make a full recovery. “It’s difficult to tell how well he will do and how long it will take him to recover. The fact that he has made such a lot of progress in such a short time is encouraging."

Still, Valadka said Friday that Emilio sat up Thursday night. “He’s been sitting up. He was standing up last night. He’s eating although his family is bringing him outside food, so he’ll eat more.”

Dr. Valadka said he reminded Emilio about the accident. “He thanked me and said he appreciated what we’re doing for him.”

Still, for Emilio there's no place like home.

“He has made it clear he wants to go home,” said Dr. Valadka.

Doctors say it may be weeks before that happens.

Emilio's wife says she's grateful her husband is improving. "It was agony the first few weeks. It was difficult not knowing whether or not he was going to make it," Maria Navaira told reporters in Spanish as she started to cry. "We give thanks to God

he is here."

She said it's been especially difficult on her 2-year-old daughter, Frida Luna, whom she held in her lap as she talked, and on her 4-year-old son Pani Antonio, who sat next to her. "We are a family and most of the time we are together," she said. "I talked with my kids, had a psychologist at the hospital talk with the kids. I try to be truthful with them. They know their father was hurt badly and is in the hospital recovering."

Meanwhile, the bus accident that landed Emilio in the hospital remains under investigation.

Investigators are still waiting for results of blood-alcohol tests. Police are also looking at whether Navaira might have fallen asleep.

Navaira was not licensed to drive the 26,000-pound tour bus.

Several members of Emilio Navaira’s band, including his brother Raul, came away with less serious injuries.

Navaira and his band have released more than a dozen albums, including “Acuerdate,” which won the Grammy for best Tejano album in 2003.