alex frederick, connection made. htline," i'm john donvan. >> by the way, they've been back to boston for follow-ups since alex got that implant. they're there right now, in fact, for their march appointment. coming up next here on "nightline," oprah, lindsay lohan, and one volatile encounter caught on camera. ♪ [ female announcer ] if you're struggling with bipolar depression, there are treatment options. ask your doctor if once a day latuda, lurasidone hcl, may help you. in clinical studies, latuda has been shown to be effective for many people struggling with bipolar depression. latuda is not for everyone. call your doctor if you have unusual changes in mood, behaviors, or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. elderly dementia patients taking latuda have an increased risk of death or stroke. call your doctor if you have fever, stiff muscles and confusion, as these may be signs of a life-threatening reaction or if you have uncontrollable muscle movements, as th

alex cannot hear. but if all goes well in the next few hours, that all could change. along with the frederickis day is a team of doctors from massachusetts general and massachusetts eye and ear infirmary, plus a surgeon from italy who flew in just for the operation. >> it's not even approved yet here in the u.s. for children, but one that everyone hopes will make it possible for him to hear. as they escortal lex down to the operating room, it is still only a gamble whether this will work. all they know for certain is he'll be in there for the next 5 1/2 hours. but in a way, alex parents' have been waiting all hi short life for this moment. the day that newborn alex came home from the hospital, he had already faced a lifetime of challenge. just four pounds, four ounces, alex arrived two months premature and spent the first month of his life here in the neonatal intensive care unit of the st. john hospital. >> i felt that i didn't do something perfectly during the pregnancy. i had two healthy kids in the beginning and all of a sudden our third child has all these issues and we didn't know what

dedi frederick's, thank you for intervening. we will be seeking with alexmith of the college republican national committee and natasha mckenzie, democrats of america national vice president. later on, we take a look at syria. today is the three-year anniversary since the uprising in syria. we will get a status report from joshua landis of the university of oklahoma. he will offer his analysis as "washington journal" continues after this. ♪ >> what our unique challenges in defining war in cyberspace? what hospitality is, what military action is? >> we are still trying to work our way through those issues. the tenets that are aqua boat -- that are applicable are whatever we do during international law, will pertain. that if we find ourselves getting to a point where we believe that ciber has taken us armed conflict scenario, that the rules and the law of armed conflict will pertain in this domain as the does in any other. i do not think cyber is inherently different in that regard. i think those sets of procedures, those sets of nations and laws -- as a -- ha