to violence and over the holiday weekend 12 were slain, marking a grim end to a year marred by gun violence. nbc s ron mott reports. reporter: christmas night, unseasonably mild. i m going to need another ambulance. reporter: with another round of unrelenting gun violence in chicago. sounded like i was in a war zone. it wasn t a normal gun. 15, 20, 25 shots. reporter: us a this south side home, seven shot, two dead, brothers. a holiday weekend with at least 43 people struck by bullets, 12 losing their lives. this is the sickening reality. it shows yet again that our penalties for carrying and using guns here in chicago are just not an effective depterrent against repeat gun offenders. reporter: the area has been besieged by shell casings and death. 143 shooting victims, 763
way eastward. bonnie schneider for us there, thanks. gun violence keeping up a record pace as the year comes to an end. over the weekend 43 people shot, 11 of them died. for the year more than 4200 people have been shod, a devastating 47% increase over last year. nbc s ron mott reports. reporter: good day to you, hallie. if folks thought the holiday weekend would have an impact of bringing down the gun violence, unfortunately not the case. 41 people shot at least here in the city, 11 fatalities. this is as we still have four, five more days to go for the year. we are looking at close to 800 homicides in the city of chicago this year. a huge increase over last year, as much as 50 percent, and a sobering statistic, the sun times published a graphic that
bing crosby may have been dreaming of a white christmas but with almost two weeks to go lots of folks are asking, when s this going to end? nbc s ron mott reports. reporter: digging out, blowing it off. before another blast of snow and cold later in the week. overnight it has definitely compacted and turned into ice. and it s hard to get off of your cars, it s hard to get off the streets. reporter: across the midwest, the northeast, and new england, loads of snow and sheets of ice. delta 724, we just went into the grass. reporter: a dangerous combination that sent this delta jet sliding off the runway in detroit, and cars crashing into one another in a series of pile-ups. a dozen injured near flint, michigan. i got hit from the front and back four times and got hit from the side. reporter: in iowa, two brothers were killed. more than 3,000 flights canceled over the weekend. my flight was canceled so i had to rebook with a different
the fire is now just 15% contained. in just a few hours, volunteers will gather to search for the last missing victim in monday s deadly flash flooding on the utah/arizona border. in total 16 people have in that state have died from the flooding there. and now for the first time we re getting a tragic look at what exactly happened, and we do want to warn you that the video that you re about to see can be disturbing. nbc s ron mott reports. oh, no, there s two vehicles. reporter: it happened in an instant. oh, my goodness. oh, dear it went over. reporter: raging flood waters and mud ripping across a road, two vehicles filled with three families, 16 people disappearing. swept away, hundreds of yards. three survived, as did others who were trapped. rescued and able to wade away to safety in knee high water. right over there reporter: virginia black shot this video on her cell phone. her concern building as fast as the water rose.
action from happening. and it s just a terrible, terrible time up there right now. i haven t given up hope in elizabeth warren, though. okay. so we will be talking to her a little later. first we ll get to our top story of the morning, later today, 24 days after the murder trial of george zimmerman began, the defense will deliver its closing argument as nbc s ron mott reports, yesterday s final presentation by prosecutors capped weeks of dramatic testimony. a teenager is dead. he is dead through no fault of his own. he is dead because another man made assumptions. reporter: the state started its closing in the less explosive fashion than it opened. [ bleep ] punks. these [ bleep ] punks they always get away. reporter: but made the same argument about trayvon martin s killing to the all-women jury. the man that is guilty of