conducted and 165 people arrested and 230 weapons were seized and a final note. this is what it is all about, unbelievably from the attacks there are 161 people still in the hospital being treated for a variety of injuries and there are 26 people still struggling for their lives in intensive care units across the city. important to remember that, greg, thank you. u.s. military officials and nato confirm a russian war plane entered turkish air space before the turks shot it down. nato holding an emergency meeting. and turkey claps that russian pilots failed to leave. vladimar putin expressing outrage and calling it a stab in the back and warning of significant consequences.
of russian inn kergs into the area before, they have had tensions, in the past. it is a history here. reporter: that is correct. there s been a number of incursions according to turks as well as the americans have said the russians have violated turkish air space and also have had drones violate the air space. turkey has warned russia about this in the past. and there was talk a month ago about coordination. making sure that nothing happens. the united states leading that effort with the russians because no one wanted to see what happened today where a plane of theirs shot down over syria and we don t know the fate of the two pilots. we are hearing they both ejected.
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matthew chance. he s on the line. reporter: max, that s right. in the past few minutes, it has been confirmed, of course, by the russian defense ministry and foreign ministry of the kremlin as well that it was a russian war plane down. and they said they brought that aircraft down after violation of air space. what the russians are saying at this early stage is that is not the case. they are saying the plane did not violate turkish air space and stayed within syria. they say it was shot down from the ground. there s not much detail beyond that except the two pilots on board appeared to have parachuted to the ground. again, the condition of those
airplanes violate turkish air space. turkey has warned over this. this does create a dangerous situation. we will be watching capitals of turkey, russia as well as the united states and other nato members to see what the response will be. but as you say, the pilots, we are hearing reports, that there is video of them leaving the plane by parachute. that is why we think they could possibly be captured. reporter: that s right. russia confirmed two pilots ejected from the plane. there are reports that the pilots or at least one of them, has been captured. we cannot independently verify that. it is likely. if they were able to eject safely, that if it landed in a controlled area, they would be captured by the rebels.