holy emptiness so i can then create something new being a principle for more than fifty years rebecca holmes works of wonder have taken on an extraordinary journey of discovery. and many happy returns for rebecca who are only worth seventy seventh birthday well that brings us to the end of this edition of arts and culture don't forget though that you can find more culture anytime on our website so do pay us a visit there and until we meet again all the best for me and my culture team here in berlin by for. oh.

holmes claimed to have developed new blood testing technology that could save lives. did she put lives at risks? she denies wrong doing. her depositions seen on abc news. rebecca jarvis asking one investor what her message is for holmes. >> the you could say something right now to elizabeth holmes, what would you say to her? >> send me my $100,000 back please. >> rebecca's two-hour documentary appears tonight at 9:00 p.m. on "20/20." check that out. >>> alex trebek with a word of thanks after revealing his cancer fight. >> i just want to take a few moments to say thanks to the, believe it or not, hundreds of thousands of people who have sent in tweets, texts, emails, cards and letters. >> alex trebek back on the job tonight. >>> when we come back, the powerful images coming in at this hour and you'll want to see this. images coming in at this hour and you'll want to see this. this. with chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting so when the day arrives, you'll be more ready to kiss cigarettes goodbye. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix. you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. stop chantix and get help right away if you h

years elizabeth holmes dropped out of stanford, transforming herself into a steve jobs wnae, turtlen seemingly dropping her voice. her eck centuries its didn't go unnoticed. here's rebeccarvis with our new documentary. >> reporter: black turtlenecks, blue ice, smoky voice. >> we will change our lives and our world. >> here it is, here's the nexts steve jobs. >> reporter: elizabeth holmes said she had an amazing invention. >> making it possible to do any lab test from a tiny drop of blood from a finger. >> reporter: the youngest female self-made billionaire, ceo of her own company. >> magazine cover after magazine cover after n the golden girl o valley. >> part of the new time 100 list just out. >> i heard she was traveling with body guards, carrying guns and traveled in private jets. >> reporter: only problem? it didn't work. >> did ms. holmes know that theranos could not do all those tests? >> yeah, she knew. >> reporter: a whistle blower risked it all. >> not only did they fool the investors. they fooled the media. >> a tiny drop from a finger. >> they fooled patients. >> hey, yeah, let's try it. >> they fooled doctors. >> first they think you're crazy and they fight

rebecca jarvis. here's a sneak peek. elizabeth holmessuperstar, once named the world's youngest self-made female billionaire for inventing a brand-new way to test blood. >> we've made it possible to run comprehensive laboratory tests from a tiny sample or a few drops of blood that could be taken from a finger. >> reporter: so how did this young woman once one of "time" magazine's 100 most influential people -- >> we are the only lab company that is actually really focused on leading with transparency. >> reporter: -- wind up facing the prospect of decades behind bars? >> do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> i do. >> reporter: investigated for massive fraud, prosecutors say she knowingly misled consumers and possibly endangered their lives by peddling promises and products that she knew didn't work. >> i don't know, you know, at that moment what i understood. >> reporter: holmes is pleading not guilty of fraud, and according to those who knew her before her meteoric success, her public image is car

the fall and rise of elizabeth holmes whose company theranos promised to revolutionize blood tests with just the prick of the finger. >> the blood tests didn't work and rebeccas seemed unstoppable. >> do everything. >> walgreens, that's the largest. they have decided that your way is the way to go. >> reporter: she now envisioned a nationwide takeover. >> access for every person means rolling this out ultimately within five miles of every person's home. >> reporter: that would give millions of people access to her so-called revolutionary technology. as theranos began building its wellness centers in walgreens, the first major expansion was arizona. >> i first was diagnosed with breast cancer back in 2013. i would get a sharp pain in my left breast. i had gotten pretty thin. everybody was worried and, boom, there was a tumor. >> reporter: sherry, a wife and grandmother, was 57 years old when she began the fight for her life. >> i had the bilateral mastectomy in the beginning of reconstruction and four months of chemotherapy. i managed well through the treatments and just kind of went back to life kind of my new normal, i guess. >> reporter: that new normal me