as such, it's not your fault and it's nothing to be ashamed of. [ laughter ] i know my great grandpa lelands so humiliated by his chronic ailment, he took to covering his face. [ laughter ] miss that good man. next, i want to take a minute here to send best wishes to former vice president dick cheney, who is recovering after receiving a heart transplant on saturday. sir, hope you're back on your feet soon. or maybe somebody else's younger, stronger feet. [ laughter ] now, while there has been much interest and speculation in the media, cheney received the heart from an anonymous donor. which is why tonight i am giving a tip of my hat to me. [ laughter ] i'm the heart donor. yeah. you can aplawd. [cheers and applause] i did it because i'm a big cheney fan, more than happy to help out. after all, it was just one heart. that's why god gave us two. excuse me? i'm trying to praise myself here. what? no, i'm pretty sure we have two of everything, okay? two lungs, two kidneys, two livers, two hearts. okay? that's why during the pledge of allegiance you cover them like this. [ laughter ] really? ju

grandpa. megyn: leland vittert live in jerusalem with the latest. >> reporter: you hit the nail on the head whend a real human element. the unconscionable suffering going on by hundreds of thousands of syrians at the hands of their own government. right now just 9 hours before a scheduled cease-fire, it appears as though president assad's troops are in all-out assault. this amateur video was shot by opposition forces to show the continued artillery barrages coming in from bashar al-asaad's forces. he promised before he would stop killing his own citizens. but the stakes are just a little bit higher here. he says thursday morning 6:00 a.m. local time he will order his troops to stop the shelling but allowed himself a big out. that revolves around what he says are armed terrorist gangs. if they continue, he says his military will respond and that's exactly what they have been calling the opposition there in syria. so you can imagine there is a lot of people extremely sceptical about the fact the cease-fire is going to happen. this is a letter from kofi annan. he wrote that he's optimistic things a