KNTV NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt June 4, 2024 22:52:00
>> reporter: black, and everything completely destroyed. >> reporter: she vividly describes the horror of hiroshima. >> ash falling from the gray only, no color. >> r in hiroshima 1953. and my parents are survivors. >> reporter: in 1945, desperate victims sought refuge in the shukien, about a mile from where the u.s. dropped the first bomb. >> many, many people came to this garden and drink water and die. >> reporter: even the trees here were incinerated. but she says miraculously, some survived. >> hope and peace and the living together in harmony. >> reporter: the inferno in 1945 seemed