the weather channel meteorologist mike seidel joins me live if a damaged home in wichita. around you there. >> reporter: this one of the hardest-hit homes in this subdivision. the home of tony and barbara klein. the tornado came in from the southwest during the 10:00 hour last night. we're at the weather service, we had to take cover, they had to transfer the orangeses up to topeka for 30 minutes, we had straight-line wind gust at the airport of 86 miles per hour. back here the twister rolled through. they're doing damage surveys now. they took out their garage. they were able to get their cars out this morning. they let the side of the building fall down. let me take you inside. they let us go inside just to show you what it looks like after twister hits. now this is not an ef-3 or 4 or 5, this is probably a 1 or a 2. what they did once they got home, they kept their eye on the tv and the warnings and watches. 15 minutes before the tornado hit they went down to the basement with their dog. and they heard a huge crash, they ran towards the bathroom, got in the tub and prot

that's where we find mike seidel tonight in wichita. mike, what's the situation there? >> hey, lester, good evening. the winds here have been howling all day long. gusting up over 40 miles an hour. the big storms are knocking on our sdoor. down along the kansas-oklahoma line. we've had over 45 tornadoes last count. they're coming in fast and furious, but so far they've been of the weaker variety. take you out west where most of the action has been all day. this is rush center, kansas. we've had some minor damage to farmhouses. this is a very rural area, so that's the saving grace so far. we've been blesed with that. we had a huge tornado heading towards selina, kansas, a town of 50,000. that weakened but a tornado watch continues until 2:00 a.m. >> we want folks to be aware of the situation. i don't want them to be complacent. when warnings are issued, the national weather service legitimately feels that there is a threat to their life. and we want them to react immediately. >> and proms and outdoor music events have been moved indoors to safer venues. some of the proms

weather channel meteorologist mike seidel. >> everything you see in red here indicates the warmest startf any year on record. plus, many northeastern states have had their top ten driest starts on record. those two factors and the recent wind is the perfect recipe for fire. >> reporter: already, 24 states and d.c. have posted red flag fire warnings, extremely unusual on the east coast. with fires as far north as massachusetts. in atlanta today, traffic on i-285 south had to crawl through dense smoke. while in florida, jacksonville issued an air pollution alert with dozens of fires burning statewide. >> once it got a good seat, it began to run in that area. it had a lot of fuel with it. and given the wind speed conditions we've seen, that type of fire is not unusual. >> reporter: compounding the problem, humidity levels remain unusually low. >> we haven't seen any rainstorms or snowstorms, and all the vegetation that grew up rapidly from last winter's rainfall is dry and ready to burn. >> reporter: an early start to a season, and already busy on the fire line. fire commanders say it is so

the weather channel's mike seidel is in wichita for us. mike, good morning to you. >> reporter: and good morning, lester. the tornado roared through the area, skipping through the south side of wichita in the 10:00 hour last night. just down the road from where i am, a mobile home park was hit hard, at least 100 mobile homes damaged and 10 destroyed. but we can't get in because of police blockades. they won't let us in there. so we're in a neighboring community and we found one of those who rode out the storm. this is barbara klein with her chihuahua, daisy, this morning. barbara, thanks for joining us, and we're glad you're safe and sound. tell us what happened last night as you arrived home before the storms hit? >> yeah, we were out and we got in about an hour before they hit. we were kind of watching on the news. we got it about 15 minutes before it hit. and we were in the basement. we weren't in the center of the basement, we thought we were secure. >> reporter: then what did you hear? >> a roar, crash, a huge, huge crash. basically, f

. >>> now to kansas where the governor has declared an emergency as the weather channel's mike seidel is in wichita with us. mike, good morning to you. >> good morning, lester. the tornado roared through the area, skipping through the south side of wichita in the 10:00 hour last night just down the road from where i am. 100 mobile homes were damaged, at least ten destroyed. but we can't get in there this morning because of blockadebloc. this is barbara cline with her chihuahua, daisy, this morning. barbara, thanks for joining us. tell us what happened last night as you arrived home before the storms were hit. >> we were out and we got in about an hour before they hit. we were watching it on the news. we gathered up everything about 15 minutes before it actually hit and we were in the basement. we weren't in the center of the basement, we were in the basement and thought we were secure. >> then what did you hear? >> then we heard a roar, a huge, huge crash. basically, at that point we ran for the center of the basement. but then i lost daisy. >> holy cow. >> she took off and went upsta

but this morning we were in lancaster, mike seidel said from the damage he saw there he thought it was at least an ef-3. that's winds of 136-mile-an-hour. really amazing amount of damage here. incredible guys that no one was killed. >> yes. if there's a silver lining, that's it, that no one was killed. thank you, bertha. >>> now to the unfoldi ining controversy over this weekend's masters golf tournament. at issue, whether the famed club should invite the new ceo of ibm to join the all-male membership. darren rovell is live in augusta where a news conference with the chairman of augusta national just finished up. did he tip his hand at all? or did he stay with the party line? >> yeah. as expected, tyler, a total party line by augusta national chairman billy payne no commenting. take a listen to what he said when asked about it. >> all issues of membership are now and have been historically subject to the private deliberations of the members. and that statement remains accurate. >> reporter: after that it got heated in the media room as reporters continued with that line of questioning.

mike seidel from our sister network the weather channel says take a look at this damage.d the winds here were somewhere in the range of 136 and 150 miles an hour. there are two cars that are wedged into the front of this house. it's not clear if they came from here. that's how it was. this thing kept touching down, touching down. it is amazing, guys, that no one was killed. back to you. >> yeah. absolutely amazing that no one was killed and amazing to see some of those pictures and the force of this storm. thank you so much to bertha coombs. ross, over to you. >> okay. thanks for that. amazing to see those trucks at that depot swept up. here in europe and certainly going to impact the u.s. open in terms of futures and where we are with european stocks has been the spanish debt auction. you've just tuned in this morning. disappointing spanish debt auction, disappointing in the sense they're looking to raise around $3.5 billion maximum, only raised about 2.6. it could have been the spanish government decided there were cheeky bids they weren't going to accept. and this is a