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We carried the press conference earlier in the show.

Nathan Hockman, the L.A. County DA, announced that Nick Reiner is going to be charged with two counts of first-degree murder

for stabbing his parents, Rob and Michelle, to death.

And we are now going to talk with Royal Oaks, ABC News, legal analyst about the details of these charges.

And Royal, first thing that jumped out is that he didn't rule out the death penalty.

He said the charge can bring life in prison without parole or the death penalty to be decided later.

And somebody just texted me.

There is no death penalty in California.

Well, there still is one on the books, right? Exactly. It's all about Governor Gavin Newsom, thinking that the death penalty is a bad

idea. He's basically dismantled San Quentin and death row and so on. But technically, as you say,

it's on the books. The governor has the ability through his

powers, his orders, to block things. But that doesn't stop a DA like Nathan Hockman, who believes

in the death penalty from, say, at least it's a possibility because one of the special

circumstances in is multiple murders could get you the death penalty. And of course, here,

there are two alleged murders by

Nick Reiner. So describe people often get confused about the degrees of murder. The main difference

between first degree, second degree murder, and why what Nick Reiner did would be classified as

first degree. Yeah, so first degree murder is where you intend to kill and you premeditated it.

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