about $48 million and on face value but bought by pennies on the dollar bill a debt buyer named aaron siegel, and this gets stolen. somehow aaron finds out from his collectors, they start calling and saying, aaron, something weird is going on with these accounts. appears somebody else has accessed this information and is collecting the money from the debtors on this package before we get to them. so, at that point, he called his fixer, who is a guy named brandon wilson, kind of his unofficial partner, a former bank robber, who has gotten into this business, helped him buy and sell debt and also helps him solve these problems and it's brandon who goes and tracks down the thieves that have gotten ahold of the diet, and it's -- debt, and it's a crazy showdown with guns and they get it back but the world he must go to, to retrieve that debt, that's the world that jimmy inhabits, this gray area of legality, underworld of buying and selling debt, and sketchy manner that exists in buffalo and other places. >> host: this underworld has hierarchy. you mentioned former thugs to large extent at the bot

one piece of debt that is about $40 million in its face value but bought by a debt buyer named aaron siegel. what happens is this that gets stolen. somehow aaron finds out from his collector, they start calling, aaron something weird is going on these accounts. it appears that somebody else has access to information and is collecting money from the debtors on this package before we get to them. at that point he called his fixer a guy named brandon wilson who was an unofficial partner who's a fan of former bank robber who i got into this business helped him buy and sell debt but also helped him solve these sorts of problems and its brand into them goes and tracks down the thieves that are gotten ahold of this data and retrieved it and we can talk about the crazy showdown with guns and they get it back. but though thing that he must go through to retrieve that dead is the world the jimmy and habits which is this kind of gray area legality kind of underworld of buying and selling debt in a sketchy manner that exists in buffalo and other places. >> host: and this underworld has that hierarchy y

>> guest: the story, the way i tell the story in the book as it starts with this guy aaron siegel, and he grew up a wealthy and very well known and well respected family in buffalo. goes to wall street for a while as a banker. even does some time in london and decides he wants to come home to be closer to his family. he ends up working in an office for bank of america in buffalo. around the time he comes back what's happened is that throughout buffalo entrepreneur's are buying some debt, buying this paper, spreadsheets and opening a shop where they hire a bunch of collectors. the profit margin, this is right before the great recession happened. his profit margins initially went through the roof. he is like buying a portfolio debt for 30 grand and in three months making 90 grand. he realizes he has found this amazing little niche of the finance world. and his supply, the key to much of his success is he has a supply who is supplying him with this paper at a really great price that's really lucrative. the weird thing about the supply is he's this former armed robber who has been 10 years

guest: so the story of the way that i tell the told the story in the book it starts with this guy aaron siegel who grew up in a wealthy and very well-known and respected family in buffalo. he goes to wall street for a while as a banker and sometimes he wants to come home and be closer to his family and he ends up working at an office as bank of america in buffalo but around the time he comes back what is happening is that throughout buffalo the entrepreneurs are buying some debt and opening up a shop where where they hired a bunch of collectors and the profit margin, this is right before the kind of great recession happens. the profit margins initially when he gets in the business are through the roof. he's buying a portfolio for 30 grand and in three months he's making 90 grand. so, he realizes that he has kind of found this amazing little niche of the finance world. in his supply -- the key is much of the success he has this supplier supplying him with the paper at a really good price and it's really lucrative. the weird thing about suppliers to use a former robber who's done ten years in pr

. >>> amelia siegel live with what you can expect in the day ahead. amelia >> good morning, aaron. a chance of a few showers in the forecast for today. it would only be light rain. only a 30% chance. the weather potentially having a low impact on your da otherwise, it's comfortable. muggy yesterday. partly to mostly cloudy skies. the immediate area in maryland, washington, virginia is dry. some light rain in far western maryland. this is what i'm keeping an eye on. this rain mainly in ohio. we will continue to track this. 61 degrees is is the temperature right now. 9:00 a.m., 60. comfortably cool. tracking hour by hour the chance of rain in your neighborhood later today. are you tracking breaking news right now. >> we are in rockville. 270 northbound at mont rows. i just spoke with police. four lanes closed. four vehicles involved in the crash. you are jammed as you hit the spur. no word on any injury. wider look at things. we're a little bit slow bw parkway as you head inside the beltway. we have that crash. bw parkway north of that southbound 198 with the overturned vehicle. into

siegel is out with the storm team 4 x 4 with your marine corps. marathon forecast. amelia, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, eun and aaron. good morning to you at home. happy friday. monitoring conditions down here at the d.c. armory. the temperature here is 56 degrees. it's a chilly morning. our weather station blowing in the wind. not only are the temperatures cool but the winds are up as well. it's going to remain breezy throughout the day. it will be breezy on sunday. keep that in mind. a high today of 71. on sunday for the runners, a cool start with a temperature around 54 degrees. 11:00 a.m., around 60. plenty of beautiful sunshine. really nice by 2:00. that temperature around 70 degrees. runners of course will be heading down to the armory to pick up their race packets. now sunday a beautiful weekend day. sunday as well. your forecast coming up in 10 minutes. also talking about a major warmup. now over to melissa with the friday commute. >> good morning. construction hasn't cleared out of the way yet. outer loop at university, the the right lane getting by at this point. should, again, be out of the way here quite

. >>> amelia siegel live with what you can expect in the day ahead. amelia >> good morning, aaron. a chance of a few showers in the forecast for today. it would only be light rain. only a 30% chance. the weather potentially having a low impact on your da otherwise, it's comfortable. muggy yesterday. partly to mostly cloudy skies. the immediate area in maryland, washington, virginia is dry. some light rain in far western maryland. this is what i'm keeping an eye on. this rain mainly in ohio. we will continue to track this. 61 degrees is is the temperature right now. 9:00 a.m., 60.

siegel live in the storm team 4 x 4. good morning to you, amelia. >>> good morning, eun and aaron.have been out here all morning tracking in our storm team 4 x 4. 66 degrees. happy friday. you don't have any plans tomorrow? join eun and aaron at the walk to end hiv. of course we have the marine corps. marathon taking place on sunday. the wind is not an issue tomorrow. but we will have breezy conditions today as well as sunday. high temperatures today will be around 70 degrees, partly sunny skies. high in bethesda, 70. 71 in washington. high temperature tomorrow around 70. walk to end hiv 7:00 a.m. tomorrow. dress warm. temperature of 48 degrees by 10:00 a.m. wind festivities are wrapping up. temperatures around 57. melissa, how are the roads looking right now? >> overall, we're looking okay. we're kind of getting volume building. 95 northbound at skaggsville, off-ramp blocked. and powder mill road, a new crash. wider look at things, looking typical. 95 north, quantico to the beltway the slowest at 40 minutes. 270 south to the beltway, twice as long at 19 minutes. and 270 twice as l

siegel out with the storm team four by four. >> she's in chantilly at ticonderoga farms. >> good morning, eun and aaron. happy friday. you have to check out aaron's twitter feed. he is posting funny pictures about this friday. hope you are enjoying your morning so far. it is dry here in chantilly. there is rain just south of us. i'm here in a pumpkin maze. you know the sun is coming up because we can hear the roosters with the petting zoo. come and check us out today. but more importantly, what i think is a little bit more impressive, there is a bamboo maze. this farm is over 1,000 acres big. right now it is 58 degrees. on storm team 4 radar, we are tracking showers south of where they are this morning, pushing off to the east through southern maryland. definitely one of the days you need to have your umbrella, the jacket. a high temperature today of 69 degrees. yesterday we hit a high of 75. so it will be a little bit cooler. some of these showers this morning continuing to favor areas south of washington. as we get into the midday and afternoon hours, this is when rain becomes more widespread. rain likely for the e

aaron gilchrist. a live look at 5:30. waking up to very pleasant conditions out there. >> let's check in with amelia siegel now to get a look at how the weather will shape up. >> good moin mostly sunny skies. right now i am tracking a little bit of fog around manassas and culpepper. elsewhere, no fog in the forecast for thimorning. students heading off to school this morning. the weather looking great from the bus stop to dismissal. absolutely beautiful afternoon. those of you in maryland that have is off today, make sure the kids get outside and enjoy the spectacular autumn friday. temperature around 56 degrees at 7:00 a.m. by 11:00 a.m., mid 6 0s. 3:00, low 70s. our high in washinonod about 7 even a nice evening. 7:00, temperaturesn upper 60s. but as the sun goes down with clear skies it will be turning chilly last night. redskins play the titans. kickoff will be breezy and cool. a closer look at the weekend coming up. melissa continues tor breaking news in frederick. >> all lanes blocked because of a serious crash. your alternate is ballinger creek pike. no doubt this will be shut down for some time. taking a look at 66.

siegel out today. >> that's right. she's in arlington where the cats kick off their season tonight. we have more reason to rock the red. >> reporter: good morning, eun and aaron. i love getting up this morning. i didn't have eight hours of sleep. about six and a half. tonight is the caps home opener against the canadiens. beautiful weather throughout the day. this is sky cast 4. this is how the sky is going to look throughout your day today. plenty of sunshine. once the sun comes up, mostly sunny skies. mild today. high temperature of 75 degrees. caps playing tote. temperatures for the game probably warmer outside than it will be in the arena. also some good news. if you're traveling to and from the game, the weather not impacting that forecast at all. but there is plenty of rain chances in the forecast. tom is going to outline the latest timing coming up in 10 minutes. here's melissa with with a check of the roads. >> oh, my gosh, please be careful. don't fall. we have new construction. silver hill. one lane blocked. this is emergency roadway. 95 at the weigh station looking quite good at this point this morning. a wider look at things, no major problems int