business move this morning. theranos founder elisabeth holmes sentenced more than 11 years in prison, this after holmes was found guilty in january. and for charges of defrauding investors by overhyping the capabilities of a failed blood testing device, the judge has ordered her to surrender to authorities on april 27th. now to western new york, which is getting hammered by a historic winter storm. so far, snow totals reaching more than five feet in most locations, in the snow is still falling. officials say at least two men have, died as a result of the lake effect snow storm that is expected to create dangerous conditions throughout the weekend. for more on all of this, we turn to nbc news correspondent marie separ who is live in buffalo. good morning, yeah, even though things may look calm, now this is still very much a very dangerous situation, and in fact just a few minutes ago is found out that the city of
elizabeth holmes was on the stand for a second day receiving in her own high-profile fraud trial. kristen dahlgren is following it. reporter: today the jury hearing from theranos founder, elizabeth holmes in her own words, fighting back by telling jurors she thought her blood testing device was a really big idea and describing clinical results as excellent holmes pleaded not guilty to charges she defrauded investors by lying about theranos technology saying it could run range of tests on a few drops of blood. we d like to see a world in which every person gets access to this type of basic testing. reporter: the company once valued at $9 billion put holmes on the cover of magazines backed by big names like the walton family and rupert murdoch but the prosecution has tried to paint a picture of a con woman who knew the device didn t work. defense documents indicate they will argue holmes former partner and boyfriend was pulling the
than three weeks ago. in a statement on social media, ashraf ghani said, he left to avoid widespread violence in the capital. he denied allegations that he stole millions of dollars. the biotech entrepreneur elizabeth holmes has gone on trial in california, accused of making billions from a blood testing device that didn t work. she launched the diagnostics firm theranos in 2003 when she was 19. it collapsed in 2018 after the technology being promoted was shown to be fake. her defence say she had simply made mistakes. boats carrying migrants across the english channel from france could be turned back at sea, in new tactics authorised by the uk home office. the border force has been told it can return boats to french waters to prevent them from reaching the uk. the move is set to be opposed by the french authorities, who describe the technique as dangerous, and a breach of maritime law. the scottish parliament will decide today whether vaccination certificates will be needed, to allow e
iam free! this is newsday on the bbc. i m karishma vaswani in singapore. the headlines. france s biggest ever terrorism trial is under way. the only surviving assailant from the deadly 2015 paris terror attacks claims he is a soldier of the islamic state group. and ashraf ghani apologises to the afghan people. the former president says he fled the country to avoid more bloodshed. the american biotech entrepreneur elizabeth holmes, whose hi tech products were exposed as fake, has gone on trial in california. ms holmes is accused of making billions of dollars in profits through false claims about a blood testing device, which could supposedly detect conditions such as cancer quickly