at announcement comes one year after he appeared in a video threatening the lives of kenji goto and another japanese citizen. the journalist and self-proclaimed military contractor were eventually killed by the group. since then, the international fight against the militants have stepped up. we look at the state of the conflict. >> reporter: air strike after air strike have taken place in territories held by the islam state militant group. the coalition and russian forces have been bombing for months in syria and iraq. but what impact have the air strikes really had? an egyptian organization that monitors radical activity says the strikes are disrupting the group's propaganda machine. the once frequent number of video posts by the group has dropped dramatically in recent months. fighters also imply its losing ground. k world s able to intview a membe of the iamic state milint groupn syria. >>ranslato air strikesy alitionorces ar fierce. we pulle outrom a numberf cities, more and more fighters were killed or injured. >> wt does tt mean forhe rritory has seized? we asked an expert on middle e

and this man, kenji, is a legend, having trained fighters using a simple and effective philosophy thatis pasted on the wall behind the ring. one, speed. two, timing. three, distance. the same idea applies to the convention-shunning sushi techniques of new york city legend naomichi yasuda. until recently, the chef partner of one of the very best, if not the best sushi restaurant in new york. the sushi yasuda. a short while ago, under very mysterious and completely misreported circumstances, he left the manhattan restaurant which still bears his name. and at age 52, moved to tokyo to start all over again. i was determined to track him down and see what the hell he was doing. these days, this great man is running a 14-seat sushi bar in the manado district of tokyo. his wife naomi is his only helper. >> welcome to the place. thank you for coming. >> why did you do such a hard thing? >> this city, tokyo, this is kind of the maker of the sushi. so i just want to be the sushi chef in tokyo. >> yasuda is a friend, and my master in the sense that he's taught me pretty much everything i know abo

meteorologist kenji is here with that, kevin. >> that's right, john, the biggest storm we've seen all winter long for the eastern seaboard. one particular system is exiting, that brought some snow about an inch of snow to washington, d.c. but it's actually right here across the central plains, that circulation, we'll be watching that especially on friday and saturday. tomorrow we start to begin a little bit more intensity with the storm, we get snow up here towards parts of tennessee as well as kentucky. but as we go towards friday does the storm really start to intensify and that's whether we really start to see most of the problems as it makes its way up the eastern seaboard. i want to go closer in, we're going to break this down because there's a lot of elements to this. all the watches and warnings are in place right now, all the way from new jersey all the way back here to parts of georgia. we're talking about winter storm warnings, blizzard watches for parts of maryland. the amount of snow we're going to get friday into saturday where you see this area of pink, that is anywhere