hands up. and here we go again. welcome to cnn this morning. good morning, everyone. you see poppy there. kaitlan is on assignment and i m don lemon. an american crisis. california suffer egg its third mass shooting in just three days. the nation as whole up to nearly 40 mass shootings in 2023. this year is just over three weeks old right now. look at this map. nearly 70 people killed already in mat shootings. 70 people living new year s day along side friends and family no longer here. this deadly month coming after america suffer ed 670 shootings last year, a significant jump from five or six years ago. one includes fourth graders inside their classroom. there are nearly 400 million privately-owned firearms in the u.s. that s 120 guns for every 100 americans. no other nation has more civilian guns than people. in 2019 the number of americans who died from gun violence was 1 times than developed countries. the u.s. is only develop the nation to have mass shootings eve
good morning to you, a sad morning in the news. i m jim sciutto. a sad morning, one that s become all too familiar, i m erica hill. for the third time now in as many days california rocked by mass shootings. in oakland at least one person is dead, seven injured. seven people also dead after a gunman opened fire in half-moon bay, and 11 of course were killed over the weekend in monterey park. police say a 67-year-old man attacked two separate locations in half-moon bay, this morning one person remains in critical condition. it s a big rural location, so people are working, it s spread out, there s people that live at the location as well. so, you know, it s it was in the afternoon when kids were out of school and for children to witness this is unspeakable. we can say the regularity of this kind of gun violence is not normal, perhaps more accurately it s not normal anywhere but this country. in that shooting right now the can you say spect is in custody, his arrest cap
crackdown. what that means to the war effort now. and ticketmaster is in the spotlight. a senate hearing digging into the taylor swift foe asco. that is what we re watching at this hour. i m kate bolduan. p another deadly mass shooting in california. it is the third in three days. this is in a statement where some of the strongest gun laws in the country. seven people were killed in half moon bay south of san francisco. the gunman attacking two plant nurseries. and in a wild twist, at rest of the suspect all played out before tv cameras. police apprehended the 67-year-old suspect within hours of the killing. he is believed to work at one of the locations that he attacked. let s begin with veronica miracle in half moon bay with the latest on this investigation. reporter: kate, this horrific mass shooting took place at two different locations here in half moon bay, about five minutes from each other. that first 911 call came in just before 2:30 in the afternoon yesterda
i m sure it is hard for you to hear. we have some video that we want to share with you, of part of what happened in half moon bay yesterday afternoon, the sheriff s video here. so this is the arrest of the 67-year-old suspect in the two shootings in half moon bay. a handgun was found in his vehicle. as for a motive, still no word at it hour. but all of this unfolding as we have also learned that an 11th person has died after initially surviving that mass shooting at the dance hall in monterey park on saturday. the gunman had stockpiles of ammunition at his home. we ll bring you more of what else they re staying in a moment. and he also made his own silencers. we begin with the shooting in half moon bay. veronica miracle is there on the scene and she ll bring us up to speed on that investigation. reporter: this mass shooting took place at two separate locations. and it all unfolded in a period of a couple of hours. the first call came in just before 2:30, sheriff s dep
a staffer injured. what we re learning. president biden returning to the white house after we learned the fbi found more classified documents at his home. the key questions still unanswered. the verdicts in now for the january 6th rioter that put his feet on nancy pelosi s office. and for oath keepers on trial for seditious conspiracy. jury selection underway for alex murdaugh, the south carolina attorney accused of killing his wife and son. the dangerous back-to-back storms. we re tracking them. and the major changes the fda is proposing on how often americans should get a covid shot. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. reporting tonight from monterey park, california. good evening, everyone, from monterey park, the latest american city shattered by mass murder. it happened beyond the doors of this popular dance hall, miles from downtown l.a. monterey park was considered the first suburban chinatown and is home to a predominantly asian american communi