34yearold daron wint was arraigned today on firstdegree murder charges. Wint is accused of extorting money from his former employer then killing him his wife, his young son, and their housekeeper, and then torching home. But investigators believe that wint did not act alone and justice correspondent jeff pegues begins our coverage. Reporter according to the arrest warrant for daron wint, 10yearold Philip Savopoulus died alone in a bedroom on the second floor of his familys washington, d. C. Home. Injuries listed in the Court Documents suggest he was stabbed and bushed by a fire that started in the room. His body was on the charred remains of a queensize bed. His father, savvas savopoulus, his mother, amy and housekeeper vera figeroa were found in an adjacent bedroom. All died from bluntforce and sharpforce injuries. Investigators say the horror for the four victims began on may 13 when wint and possibly others held them hostage at the home. While the family was being held captive, court papers says mrs. Savopoulus called a local dominos at 19 14 p. M. Wednesday. She ordered two pizzas and charged them to her credit card. She said she was nursing a sick child and would not come to the door. She asked the driver to place the two pizzas on the front porch, ring the doorbell, and leave. The d. N. A. That linked wint to the murders came from d. N. A. On an unfinished slice of pizza. The next morning savopoulus called and texted a second housekeeper telling her not to come to work. Mr. Savopoulus called Business Associates at his Company American iron works. Employees there drove to a local bank withdrew capitol withdrew 40,000 and drove the money to the savopoulus house. Investigators say the hostages were killed a few hours later. Scott, investigators believe there was an effort to cover traction and destroy evidence. The odor of gasoline and matches were also found in the home. Pelley jeff pegues at the crime scene for us tonight. Jeff, thank you. So how did they catch the suspect . Wyatt andrews has that part of the story. Reporter daron wint was captured thursday night at a stop light in washington. A task force of u. S. Marshals and 40 d. C. Police officers in a show of overwhelming force surrounded his car along with a moving van that he was following. Rob fernandez is a deputy u. S. Marshal and commander of the task force. There was no way they could get out. Reporter the manhunt for daron wint involved one near miss and one great guess. It began tuesday afternoon when d. C. Police first identified wint as their suspect. By wednesday the task force had tracked wint to a girlfriends apartment in brooklyn, new york, but that night just after wints identity went public, he fled. They went to the location and attempted to arrest him but he had just left. Reporter by how much did you miss him . Were not sure but possibly minutes. Reporter on thursday, wint returned to the d. C. Area. The task force using his friends on social media and witness accounts tracked him to this Howard Johnsons in maryland. As an arrest team was about to storm his hotel room, itinoid a van and car moving suspiciously in tandem. Here was the guess its team decide to tail the two vehicles on the hunch that wint had to be in one of them. You believed but didnt know. No, but nothing is certain. You have to make a disaigz embassied on the best information that you have and you go with it. Reporter the d. C. Police found more than 10,000 in wints car which they will try to connect to the crime scene. Five other people were traveling with wint but scott they were not arrested. Pelley wyatt thanks very much. In other news tonight the Southern Plains could be in for more flooding. Hundreds have been forced from their homes. The green area on this map of texas and oklahoma could get more than half a foot of rain by monday, and thats where we find vicente arenas. Reporter all week recordbreaking rainful has been pounding parts of texas causing dangerous flooding cars submerged while weres were left floating. In corpus christi, more than 12 inches of rain has made this the wettest may on record. Rain has been welcome relief for a state thats been struggling with drought. This picture of Lake Arrowhead was taken in january of last year when it was only 20 full. But recent reasons have nearly filled it, putting water under the fishing pier for the first time in two years. In texas the Wichita River is rising rapidly, threatening as many as 200 homes. One of them belongs belongs to mike wenk, who spent the day filling sandbags. I have no flood insurance. I was told when i bought the house we were not in a flood plain. Reporter barry levy is with the Emergency Operation center in wichita falls. We have been praying for rain fair good three years and now that we have as much rain as were going to need for the next 10 years, i think people are going to start praying for the rain to stop. Reporter and this is why. Im standing in nearly two feet of water and this is somebodys backyard. Its expected to get even higher when the river crests tomorrow and, scott, there are heavy showers in the forecast and theyre expected to cause even more problems with all this flooding here. Pelley in texas theres either too much or too little. Vicente arenas, up to his knees tonight. Vicente, thanks very much. Nearly 300 of Hillary Clintons controversial emails were released today. They deal with the attack on the u. S. Compound in benghazi, libya, in which four americans including the u. S. Ambassador, were killed. There are no major revelations in the emails but nancy cordes discovered a good deal of confusion about what happened and how to explain it to the american people. Reporter the emails captured the confusion as the attack unfolded in september 2012. The libyans confirmed his death clinton wrote referring twofnt victims. Should we announce tonight or wait until morning . A top aide wrote back, we are awaiting formal confirmation from our team. The next day clinton got an email from along longtime friend Sidney Blumenthal who had business ties in libya. The attacks he said, were inspired by an internet video by the prophet mohammed. Then he sent a new analysis, an islamist Militia Group planned the attacks for approximately one month. Many of the emails were heavily redacted, including this one about revised t. P. S, the infamous talking points that wrongly claimed the it was spontaneous. State Department Spokeswoman marie harf summed up the emails this way they do not change our understanding of the what happened before, during, or after the attack. Thank you all ill be back reporter republicans argued theres a reason for that. In a statement, Benghazi Committee chairman trey gowdy noted clintons private email account was exclusively reviewed and releaseed by her own lawyers so theres no way to know if the selfselected Public Record is complete. Traveling in New Hampshire clinton responded. It is the fact that we have released all of them that have any government relationship whatsoever. Reporter clinton has always said she did not send or receive classified material on her private account. Today, scott though, before the emails were released, the f. B. I. Determined that two sentences in one of the emails were not considered classified material at the time they were sent but should be considered classified today. Pelley nancy cordes on capitol hill for us. Nancy, thank you. Today, isis sealed off the ancient syrian city of palmyra. Thousands fled yesterday when the Islamic Extremist Group overran the syrian army. Now Clarissa Ward tells us an irreplaceable treasure may be lost. Reporter the city of palmyra was largely empty today but for the bodies of suspected isis opponents dumped in the street. The victorious militants swept through a deserted syrian army base searching for any remaining regime soldiers and showing off the remains of those they had executed to residents. The fall of palmyra also puts the future of some of the countrys most precious Cultural Heritage in jeopardy. The citys 2,000yearold ruins are now under the control of isis militants who have regularly destroyed Cultural Relics in the past in other locations, condemning them as unislamic. What doesnt get destroyed is looted. Trafficking antiquities is a major source of revenue for the group. Lieutenant colonel Nicholas Saad is the head of the bureau for international thefts in lebanon where many of those smuggled artifacts turn up. Reporter are we talking millions . Millions. Reporter saad explained that most of the pieces dont stay in the middle east. Reporter so these antiquities are being smuggled out to go to the west. Reporter we spoke to the ministry of antiquities in syria who told us that many of the most precious statues in palmyra have been moved to a safe location over the past few weeks, and they said that there havent been any reports of destruction yet, scott but, of course, they are extremely concerned. Pelley Clarissa Ward in beirut for us tonight. Claris athanks. Today, off southeast asia, burmas navy rescued more than 200 refugees jammed on to a fishing trawler. Thousands more like them are stranded at sea fleeing poverty and persecution. Most are Rohingya Muslims an oppressed minority in burma. Bill whitaker, on assignment for 60 minutes, reached a forbidden part of burma to tell the story of the people that the u. N. Calls one of the most persecuted in the world. Reporter the rohingya adrift at sea are a Muslim Minority from overwhelmingly buddhist burma. They have lived along the border with muslim bangladesh for generations. Longsimmering religious animosity exploded three years ago when buddhist mobs burnedded muslims villages. More than 100,000 rohingyas fled. My family ran to survive he said. Theyre barely surviving now. The camps are off limits but we managed to slip in. The people are frightened, hungry, and stateless. Rohingya are not considered is its of burma. These are essentially concentration camps. People are confind to these camps. They cant leave these areas. Reporter human rights worker matt smith is documenting conditions in the camp. Most people have one option when it doms movement and that is to flee by sea and so were seeing risking their lives actually to get boats to flee to other countries. Reporter we went to the capitol to ask thein sein. They are Illegal Immigrants and now some of their generations are being born here, he said. Where would you like them to go . Would you like them to leave min mar . Well scrutinize these people to see if theyre eligible for citizenship. If not well consider other circumstances. For thousands of rohingyas circumstances in burma are so dire, theyd rather face the forbidding sea. Bill whitaker, cbs news, burma. Pelley there was a terrifying moment in los angeles last night as a group of firefighters suddenly vanished into flames. Danielle nottingham is at the scene. Reporter it was just before midmight broke out at the abandoned club caribe. 55 firefighters were called to the scene. You could see four of them on the roof, cutting a hole to release hot gases. Then a moment of panic. Four feists plunged 25 feet to the floor. There was a frantic rush to find them. The injured firefighters were loaded on to ambulances and taken to a hospital. Ventilating fires from rooftops is a dangerous procedure but necessary. L. A. County fires randall wright. By opening up the roof, we allow all that smoke and heat and gas to get out. That allows firefighters to search for other victims if they are in the building and allows firefighters to see and makes it tenable for their survival, also. Reporter one firefighter suffered second and thirddegree burns here. Scott, three other firefighters were treated for minor injuries. Pelley danielle, thank you. A Free College Education for students of a certain age. Well show you how. When one young man got quite a head start on college when the cbs evening news continues. Its gentle on your body too. No wonder doctors and patients have trusted advil. For their tough pains for over 30 years. Relief doesnt get any better than this. Advil. When eating healthy and Drinking Water just isnt enough to ease my constipation i trust dulcolax tablets. I take dulcolax for dependable overnight relief and in the morning i am back to myself dulcolax, designed for dependable relief allergies distracting you . When your symptoms start. 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Reporter the pines has an agreement with Davidson College all residents can audit classes for free if the professor agrees. Pat is in her 12th class. When you used to think of a Retirement Community, what did you picture . Nursing homes. Reporter according to an Investment Bank that traction senior living, there is an estimated 85 retirement communities located near colleges in the u. S. Two more in the planning stages. Anne merrill teaches english and environmental studies at davidson. Retirees in community generally contribute a huge amount to the college in their attendance at sporting events, at arts events, their interest in not only whats going on at the college but also in the small town. Reporter the residents of the pines for example, spend an estimated 25,000 a year on sporting events at Davidson College. College towns also typically have lower home prices and Good Transportation systems and because many have teaching hospitals, there is toprated health care. 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Its like, i got that back, something that i thought i lost, ive got it back. Hes fixing them. Hes making them better. I dont have the money to go and just waste. Who would want to come and sit and fix peoples nasty grimy clothes. Reporter its a good point and the answer has nothing to do with sewing. The sewing machine has become more than the tool for mending. Its the tool for making people stop. What stories do you have for us today, veronica . The tool that people feel really comfortable around joirk what a beautiful sewing machine. Moi god, where did you pick this up . Reporter michael started sewing for strangers after he found this antique toss to the curb. It was his way of paying forward. But in the years since it has become less about letting out pants and more about taking in stories, about building community. Its team work. You work together. You know what im saying . I really appreciate from the bottom of my heart what he does for the neighborhood. Hes a good man, and hes touching the world and healing people with his gift, and i i honor him and i thank him. Reporter like an old pair of jeans the tenderloin will probably never be good as new but thanks to people like michael this material has a little stretch. Reporter its still got a lot of life left in it. Im so grateful. Thank you so much. Reporter Steve Hartman on the road in San Francisco. Pelley thats the cbs evening news for tonight. Were going to leave thu memorial day weekend with the air force thunderbirds in the skies over manhattan. For all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. There are a lot of channels on your tv but only so many you want to watch what if you could pay for the types of channels you want and not the ones you dont now, fios brings you a totally new way to customize your tv. Starting at 74. 99 per month with no annual contract. Get custom tv, including internet and phone. Price guaranteed for two years. 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