carol mckinley is a freelance correspondent who has been in the courtroom. i spoke with her between court sessions earlier today. carol mckinley, thank you for being with us. tell us about what happened in court today. why did the prosecutor say he is going to go to trial and seek a death penalty and essentially rejecting the offer by the defense to have a plea agreement here? >> well, this is a pretty conservative prosecutor. he just got voted in in november knowing that this was going to be his case. his name is george brockler. he looked over every statute. he met with 60 victims and relatives of victims who died. only the ones who died. also his office reached out to 800 of the people who were in theater 9 the night of july 20. from talking to all those people, he said he assessed his decision that justice is death. he feels like if anyone deserves the death penalty, it would be james holmes because most people believe that james holmes is the person who committed this act that early morning on a friday. >> warner: did he say anything about why he didnot