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Three months of testimony, 32 witnesses, and now it is down to eight men and four women to decide the fate of theranos founder elizabeth holmes. holmes is accused of deceiving investors, doctors and patients claiming that her blood testing technology would change the medical world. only the technology didn't do what she claimed and test results were unreliable despite $945 million in funding. cnn's natasha chen is on verdict watch from san jose, california. you've been talking about this on social media. the interest in this trial has been very high. >> reporter: it's intense. we even had to c...

That she could create a device that could diagnose hundreds and hundreds of illnesses just using a couple of drops of blood. the idea was really lauded by the great and the good of american society. we had henry kissinger who was investing, george schultz, former secretary of state, joe biden who said very warm words about the company, as did bill clinton, howeverthe about the company, as did bill clinton, however the idea itself was based on fantasy science. the technology didn't actually work. it took years and years for that to unfold. eventually, a wall street journal investigation, using ...

Had in this and the whole country has benefitted from the forensics in the last decade. the anybody seizure division is a focus for this and hasn't been mentioned yet. they maintain this tremendous repository of prints and the latent prints collected. the technology now exists where they can search that single latent print that they found on that bomb fragment against the millions of latents and come up with an answer in minutes. that technology didn't exist five years ago and that's why so many earlier bombing cases took to solve. not this one. >> shepard: interesting. at the same time, they ...

Wound up with the system we had today. at the time the bill was passed the technology didn't exist to do an instant background check. it wasn't implemented until the late '90s. the debate we had after newtown around background checks was to fix the loopholes that that compromise created. so i think what you were seeing here -- go ahead, halle. >> i was just going to hop off that point because the nra came out in 2013 and opposed a bipartisan bill that would have required background checks for private gun sales as well and the tone you talked about is one that is aimed as an audience inside tha...

Frequent -- this hovering behavior in parents. i know technology didn't cause it because i was writing about this before kids were writing and texting all the time. we have to put limits on technology. we're still the parent. we still get to set rules and expectations about how often and to what extent they can be in front of the screen. back to your question about the harms. they lack life skills. kids today that have been over parented often in furtherance of go to the right school all the activities, all the sports the leadership, the community service, they're not learning to do for themse...