they plan to undercut claims that she was being abused by balwani and being used by thayer noise. >> abuse partner defense carries a lot of risk. if the jury believes this is disingenuous it could clearly backfire and be a big problem for ms. holmes during the jury clib rags. >> reporter: the prosecution says it caused real risk to patients, including a test that showed a woman was not pregnant when she was, and inaccurate hiv tests. holmes declined to say anything to us as she left court today. the trial is expected to last three months and could include witnesses from rupert murdoch to henry kissinger. >> not just her husband but her parents by her side in court today. it's been six years since theranos was revealed. but she wasn't phased and appeared on cnbc soon after that report and denied any wrong doing. >> what do you think's going on here in. >> this is what happens when you work to change things. and first they think you're crazy. then they fight you. and then all of a sudden you change the world. and very to say i, i personally was shocked to see that the journal would pub

thayer. >> reporter: the defense attorneys tried to swat it all down and cal harris, himself, was adamantg to do with his wife's disappearance. >> it's one thing to say, look, i'm innocent, i didn't do this but another thing to have so many people accusing you and pointing the finger at you. look. i'm not guilty. i didn't do this. i didn't commit this crime. >> reporter: there was no body, no murder weapon and the defense said the forensics were unconvincing at best but the jurors weren't having it. june 2007 they came back guilty. cal harris broke down and sobbed. >> because i knew i was going to not see my kids. i knew i wasn't going to go home that night and i knew how they were going to be and it was overwhelming. >> reporter: but in the eyes of michele's family, it was finally justice. and then? then an extraordinary thing happened. >> my first reaction was, come on. the judge is not going to accept this guy's claim. >> reporter: a new witness with an amazing story and it turned the harris case on its head. coming up. >> as always walking by the harris property, there was a blond wom

dan: thayer knows took the stand in the elizabeth home trials, testifying about the deficiencies he saw and the company. the defense tried to pin the failed text -- technology on them the state. deflecting blame away from elizabeth holmes. they fought back saying that quality control failure rates were in the double digits. he testified that he raised concerns to her during a problematic launch of the technology at safeway. last night, we brought you the story of concern residents after a string of coyote attacks in that area. now, wildlife extra -- experts say the frequency of this attack could continue and get worse because of the drought. we have this story. reporter: over the past several months, they have seen a string of coyote attacks on animals. one of those attacks was on her dog. >> literally a person of our family was taken from us and was killed in front of our eyes. reporter: this left her traumatized but it is one that experts say can continue to happen and become more frequent. >> this is in large part due to drought, basically. reporter: he works with the lindsay wildlif

the founder and former ceo of thayer knows faces --theranos faces up to 20 years in prison.en powell says it can be sexist to hold her accountable. i want to bring in ellen powell now. -- ellen pao now. you have gotten a debate started with this. what do you mean? ellen: it has become such a lightning rod. what people think about elizabeth holmes and what people think about tech. i think she should obviously be held accountable. the things that they have charged around the fraud and deception and what she knew at different times is true. but, why are we only holding her accountable? there is so much male privilege that the people who have had similar wrong doing who our men are not held accountable the same way elizabeth holmes has been. emily: there is lots of pushback against your op-ed. some people think it sounds like you are defending elizabeth holmes. are you? ellen: i am saying she should be held accountable. i don't know how to make it more clear. i just don't know how we should allow these male ceos to not be held accountable. i think we need to take this moment and

thayer chase was the consulting landscape architect for right of way, george dunkel berger was the architect and leslie sumner was the structural engineer. a couple of differences. okay. so 38 miles, we can see parkways getting longer, they're beginning to connect different things. it has a 300 foot consistent right of way which expands in some places to become a little bit wider in part because we are now creating a larger margin -- median. design speed, 50 to 60 miles an hour. what does that do? that begins to think about flattening the curves. the quicker we go the more gentle we want the curves otherwise you're going to spin off of them. another thing is that begins to happen is they begin to get an 8% grade so they become less steep. okay. 8%, that's about the slope of a handicap ramp. so it's not like they're completely dead level, either. another view of the merit. you can see here that 300-foot right of way was 100 feet wider than the westchester county parkways, but the transportation intent of the merritt was also seen that the right of way was consistent throughout its length with

destruction and actually these are belongings that have been waterlogged, people cleaning them out from thayer, several homes exploded because the floodwaters triggered gas leaks inside these homes, and the buildings exploded. thankfully no one was inside. for example, a woman in this building -- 11 hours because the neighborhood was cut off with all of this floodwater, she was rescued, as i said, by her neighbor across the street. came here, got her and her children out by boat. and they managed to survive and are back here now cleaning up. >> i mean, just one harrowing story after another. okay. thank you so much for that, gabe. let's go from there to vaughn hillyard in jefferson parish just south of new orleans. vonn, that area saw devastating floods, of course. we're learning the power may not be restored until the end of september? >> reporter: alex, we're talking weeks here. this is debilitating heat, no power, and you're talking about here in a community of about 1,000 here in which the water and the mud just overtook the homes here in this community. you can see lifted up this boat, br

they're weak, thayer ineffective and in the case of lisa murkowski she's not even fighting for her state. >> how is that? the reverend al sharpton, president of the national action network, also joining us msnbc contributor anna palmer, founder of punch bowl news and charlie sykes for "the bulwark." charlie sykes, the congressman has just given an interview to his local station. let me show you what he said. >> is there room for you or people like you with ideology and policy in the party? >> i think there is. the thing i always say voters ultimately decide the direction of the party. one thing i'll say, if you sort of look at the typical primary electorate you're looking at roughly 10% of the population. and i think there's an open question how do we change the dynamics where more people are voting in primaries which is for congressional seats the reality is you need more people to participate in the democratic process. when i speak to people the vast majority have discussed it with both parties. and they want to see something they can latch on to. it's disappointing for them and for me