miki yamamoto, nhk world, hiroshima. >> and miki yamamoto will be covering the events in hiroshima throughoutay, so please stay with us here on "newsline." >>> it's unusual to see heavy rain in hiroshima at this time of year. mai shoji has more from the weather desk. >> in hiroshima only, we have reports of about 200 residences have been told to evacuate. water levels of about six rivers have already burst its banks. that's due to a long frontal system into northern japan and the southwesterly flow of warm and humid air is dumping really heavy amounts of rainfall, bucksful of rain, and it exceeded a thousand millimeters in some locations just in the first week of august, already a record indeed. and just about in the past 24 hours, about 25050 locations. unfortunately, we're likely to see more rain, about 100 to 150 millimeters in anywhere you see the color locations. and on top of, that we have another system coming in, a strong typhoon. lots to talk about here. more rain to come, and certainly another high risk of flooding, landslides and mud slides. more on that later in this program. >>>

miki yamamoto, nhk world, hiroshima. >> miki will be covering events in hiroshima throughout the day. people in peace memorial park and throughout the city are marking the anniversary in weather conditions unusual for this time of year. mai shoji joins us with more. >> in hiroshima only we have reports of about 200 residences have been told to evacuate. water levels of six rivers have already burst its banks. this is due to a long frontal system that is stalling over the korean peninsula and over japan. it is dumping buckets full of rain and it exceeded 1,000 millimeters just in the first week of august already, a record indeed. and in the past 24 hours, about 250 millimets in some locations. but we're likely to see more rain. 100 to 150 millimeters and on top of that we have another system coming in which is a strong typhoon moving in our direction. so lots to talk about here. mrz more rain to come. and certainly, another high risk of flooding, landslides and mudslides. more on that later in this program. >>> two japanese cities, two atomic bombings that changed history. tens of thou