and new research shows window falls are not limited to big cities with big apartment buildings. while 6.5% of kids who fell were three stories or more above ground, nearly 31% of the kids fell from one-story windows, and nearly 63% fell from two stories. single-family homes are very often the scene of window falls. many of these children, about half, had injuries to the head or face. reporter: of the 5,200 kids who fall out of windows every year, the vast majority are boys 5 years old or younger. children 4 and under are most likely to sustain head injuries, be hospitalized, or die of their injuries. experts urge parents to install window stops to prevent kids from raising the window and window guards if the window is left open. they allow the window to be open for the cool breeze to come in, but the children can t fall out. ba reporter: back in washington daniel spent a month in the hospital and years in therapy. today he s 10 and david is 13.
again, they re taking this very slowly, very cautiously. again, we re awaiting a news conference to the new york police department. we re going to take you back to now to cnn s susan candiotti who i spoke to about an hour and a half ago about what happened to the car tonight. let s 11 to susan. reporter: an fbi spokesman tells us that they do have a presence onsite. they re sort of the joint terrorist task force. right now the fbi acknowledges while the situation is being taken very seriously, there s still a lot of things to be sorted out. and that s what s happening at this time. new york city s bomb squad has been on this case for several hours. they are still trying to figure just exactly what was causing the fire, inside the car. was there something obviously, the official is suspicious. but was there something
we at this point are not are not are not fully aware of. that s all i can tell you. don lemon joining natalie here at the desk. i m going to jump in, jeanne and ask you a question, this may have started earlier. they may have gotten wind of this at 6:45 this evening. according to witnesses at the domestic deck is that it was a mounted officer who found this and phoned it in. and that s when all of this unfolded? reporter: you ve got more current information than i do. i really i can t comment because i don t have anything to add there, i m sorry. so, listen, jeanne, also we re hearing that they re asking for the public s assistance in this. that city officials have been asking people to send in video, if they hear anything, to call the police there. what are you hearing about that?
exactly is going on in times square, what exactly to report for the public, especially the cities that we have seen you. and we are be teaming up in a national domestic to report this story. earlier, i spoke to jean necessary serve she s down on the gulf course, another story there with the overall. but deny, lock to us about how the investigators respond when things happen in new york city. here s his comment. reporter: at this stage of an investigation like this, is most likely largely in the hands of the local authorities with assistance from the fbi as susan has mentioned. but they re monitoring the situation closely at this point in time to see exactly what develops here. of course, they ll be looking very carefully at this car, they information they can get from that. they ll be looking at the
reporter: i m not hearing anything about that in particular, but that would be true to form in any sort of an investigation, that they d want to be talking to anyone who s a potential witness who anything that might have transpired there. they obviously want to get to the bottom of it. usually, there s no better way to do it than to talk to people who have been in the area, who might have seen something out of place, someone that didn t belong. something that was unusual. talk to us, you re homeland security representative, during iraq and they ve developed specifics around times square. they re well aware of this. and they re doing what they can do keep the situation in control, using what they put in place after those events. tell us what s going on there now and your knowledge of this? reporter: yes, new york city is a very robust police department, as you know. and they have formed special teams called atlas teams that