First Court Appearance in more than a year and a half with the start of his trial less than a month away. Heads up, a man enjoying a bike ride gets an unexpected surprise. A deer leaping out of nowhere directly into his path. What he says saved him from serious injury, today, thursday, december 18th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, watching that deer video, no one cringing more than the guy next to me. Been deer, done that. Well talk about that in a bit, but thats not looking good. By the way, no one injured, including the deer in that. What a busy 24 hours. The u. S. Is now confirming it was north korea behind the hacking of Sony Pictures. While the studio has decided to cancel the release of the controversial movie, the interview, well get reactions from hollywood in a moment, but lets get to pete williams. Pete, what can you tell us . Reporter matt, good morning, u. S. Officials
Murder charges against the doctor. We spoke with the deputy d. A. By phone earlier this morning. She tells us that her office first had doubts about their case against the doctor back in july, which is why they released him then with the understanding they wanted to reexamine certain aspects of the case before this afternoons hearing. This morning she said they reached a decision to drop the charges against the doctor, in quote, the interest of justice, unquote. His friend, galvez, still stands accused of stabbing to death the doctors wife. This happened inside their gilroy home on april 1st. She showed the d. A. Documents that proved galvez is a con man. Those are her words, who was trying to swindle the two out of their condo located in ecuador. When galvez went to close the door on the sale of property, he killed her on his own without being hired to do so by the doctor as the District Attorneys Office first alleged. I represent an innocent client. I mean, hes 100 innocent in my opi