Causing an outage. It affected nearly 27,000 customers mostly in aurora and east denver, still no word yet how the raccoon got into this substation. It may seem unusual for an animal to cause a power outage, it happens more often than youd think. Animal caused outages are one of our top four causes of outages in the state of colorado, so its not uncommon for it to happen. What is, however, unusual is the outage was so wi power to just a couple of customers. If you tried but failed to date on access, youre not alone. Thats because an Internet Company is being hit by Cyber Attacks. Outages soon spread from the northeastern United States into the midwest. A security expert tell the Associated Press the attacks appear to be someone trying to probe for weaknesses of Internet Services. Affected sites say they have managed to get back online oregon working to as quickly as possible or are working to as quickly as possible. Police hope eight of the most violent bloods gang members will go to federal prison for a long time under the new vicar law. Police say they were able to use cutting edge forensic tools to identify the group. They tell us that included shell casing analysisac and monitored cell phone and social media exploitation. It focuses with precision. It restores Community Trust in our work by taking out the select group and the select shooters. They are causing the most harm in neighborhoods. Some of the more serious charges the eight members are facing because of the vicar law include conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder and two different assaults with a nurse who took care of a disabled child has been charged with assault after the family produced video showing suspected abuse. 9wants to know has obtained the videos and just a warning, they can be difficult to watch. As 9wants to know reporter Anastasiya Bolton tells us, the girls parents want to us show these videos so that others can learn what happened to 10year old iceland. Anastasiya bolton joins us 10yearold aislinn. Anastasiya bolton joins us now. Reporter the family hired their nurse from an agency in may to care for their daughter aislinn who has a rare condition called by changes in the grin1 gene which has limited her cognitive ability to that of a 6monthold. The family said they interviewed, trained the nurse for two weeks and for weeks after followed up. They continued working with her to make sure that their daughters needs were met. Long before they noticed bruises on aislinn. What they saw on the video cameras theyd installed disturbed them, rough treatment on the changing table, a hit and the nurse then jerks aislinns hair when shes in the wheelchair. Prosecutors in Douglas County charged vonnida with assault of an at risk victim a felony. Aislinns parents say they want vonnida not to ever be a nurse again. Not one of them is acceptablee. Child regardless of their disability or lack of disability. Thats not care in any sense of the word. She has a greater responsibility. Shes trained. Shes a professional in this field. Theres no way you can define any of that as care. Vonnida wouldnt talk to us. Her punishment in our legal system has not been decided yet. Shes back in court monday. Her nursing license has been suspended and could be revoked after a hearing this spring. Well hear more from aislinns family and her parents on the story and tell you why families like theirs would want to background even licensed nurses tonight on 9news at 9 00 and 10 00. Certainly difficult to watch and incites a lot of emotions from a lot of people. Thank you. Not that most folks are undecided at this point, but Hillary Clinton won the third and final debate of the election season by a margin of nine points according to the latest nbc poll online today. 46 of those who watched the debate said clinton won. 37 said trump won. An amazingly large 17 said neither won. The poll also looked at whether voters would accept the election as legitimate if their candidate loses. 53 of the republicans said they would probably accept the results while 82 of democrats said they would probably accept the outcome. The Colorado Department of emissions from the suncor refinery a week ago today did not create a Public Health concern. That determination came after air quality modeling of last fridays mishap. Health Officials Say suncor has returned to full operations and the plant is in compliance with emissions limits. Last week a power failure caused an emergency shutdown at the refinery. The billowing orange yellow smoke was sulfur dioxide and the release was part of refinery shutdown procedure. Roads were closed a few hours. The plant resumed operations on sunday. Cdot said a highway in western colorado reopened after crews cleared away more than 100 tons of debris from a rockslide wednesday morning. Colorado 133 reopened north of paonia this afternoon. About 1,001 an average of about 1,100 people use that road each day between hitch hodgkins and Glenwood Springs hodgkins and Glenwood Springs. This cost 417 million to build, but its nearly 60 million bucks less than the original cost estimates. The plant will undergo months of testing before it officially ranching and conservation havent always gone happened in hand. However 9news reporter Maya Rodriguez and photojournalist tom cole take us to a place in El Paso County where ranchers are helping preserve a place for colorados grassland birds. Reporter on 1,500 acres near the palmer divide. Were kind of an island left here in the black forest. Reporter sits the kiowa creek ranch where theres total. Reporter cows, pigs. Hi. Reporter turkeys, chickens and sheep, all sharing the same space with other more wild creature. We have an amazing raptor population through here. Reporter dan laurens and adrian larue are the rancher here. We see a lot of migratory theyre called. I call the Audubon Society and ask what they are. Reporter theyve partnered with audubon rockies on a Pilot Program called the conservation ranching initiative. It looks to work with ranchers on practices that make their lands more welcoming to grassland birds whether they are nesting or migrating. These are the birds that exist here and these are the habitat requirements of these birds. So how can we use the cattle to know, x, y and z species . Reporter grassland birds in particular have taken a hit over the decades as Development Moves into their habitat. If you look at the overall guild of grassland birds, theyve really declined by about 80 and that is due in part to a lot of overdevelopment. Reporter by working with ranchers on a voluntary basis audubon rockies hopes to keep that, open and give ranchers the preservation credit theyve earned. Its cool to figure out how to work with it rather than have it be agriculture or conservation, that you can have them together. Reporter sharing the same land and sky. Maya rodriguez, 9news. Audubon rockies is also trying out this program in wyoming. They are creating a label that ranchers would be able to use in marketing their products to show that theyre helping to maintain more bird has been at habitat. Its certainly beautiful out there. Just in time for the weekend it is opening day for colorado ski season. Folks are excited about that. Also ahead a Pediatricians Group offers a new take on how much time your kid should be spending in front of video screens. A surprise visit to denvers yeah, theyre cheering, colorado ski season is underway, thats why. Today. Skiers and snowboarders lined up earlier to take advantage of the 1 run. The resort began making snow october 3rd. It has an 18inch base. Loveland ski area has been making snow. They expect to kick off their season sometime next week. Last year both those two resorts opened first on october 29th. The American Academy of pediatrics put out new recommendations for the amount of screen time that is acceptable for children broken down into different for children younger than 18 months no screen time is recommended. For kids ages 2 to 5 they recommend one hour of high quality screen time per day. For older kids and teenagers parents should discuss limits and reevaluate those on a regular basis. Other specific guidelines include no screen time an hour before bedtime. Im guilty of violating that one. Families should designate device free times like during homework or mealtime and internet safety. The key is to make sure kids have plenty of offline time to develop their social skills, Healthy Eating habits and get enough sleep and parents are also being told to be media mentors teaching their kids how to navigate the internet effectively and safely. Students at South High School received a special visitor, the youngest person to ever win the nobel peace prize, malala yousafzai. As students gave her a heroes welcome, malala fought the taliban as it banned girls from going to school. She refused to give up even after masked gunmen boarded her school bus and shot her in the face. And the terrorists tried all their best they could do and they still have not stopped me. So it means that i am on the right path. After the assembly malala met with refugee students in a private meeting to tell them to nonprofit the ma llama foundation. Had to be a cool the malala foundation. Had to be a cool day to be at that school. Todays warm temps, even hi there, meteorologist danielle grant in the 9news backyard. Snowfall up in the high country. Man, people are getting pumped up for the ski season. This is courtesy of jack dempsey at abasin as those folks getting in on that first chair taking them up and look at that, plenty of powder to enjoy and get your turns in. So far downtown denver looking real good with all those blue skies. In the far off distance you can see the weekend almost here and its looking good. This weekend should be very pleasant if youre heading out, maybe a its going to be a warmer weekend to come, too, 70s and possibly 80s. Im saying fire up the grill. Grab the clubs. You can still enjoy the nice warm and dry weather outside. Low 80s in lamar, springfield, pueblo, trinidad this afternoon, 70s in eagle, rifle, Grand Junction 68, same in gunnison. The airport 74, sunshine with winds out of the east about 13 miles per hour. Makes it feel comfortable outside. Right now in the backyard were at 75 degrees, this weekend just fantastic. So far so good. Were nice and dry on hd doppler 9. Ill take you to the Pacific Northwest where once again theyre watching a series of storms starting to push in yet again, more rain for the seattle area and a little light snowfall across the cascades. A good chunk of the midsection of the country, nothing going on. High pressure taking over, but across the northeast a cold front is pushing in bringing them heavy rains. What will be interesting abou storm it will scoop in some of that cold canadian air, drop it back down into the northeast and potentially this weekend they could be looking at a little bit of snowfall. So thats their storm system. High pressure around here with that one quick one thats just pushing in, sliding just to our north, but again warm and dry for not only colorado for the next couple days, but our neighboring states as well. Tonight were down to about 41, clear and quiet, the winds picking up from time to time 7 16, 30s and 40s in denver and 22 in alamosa. A couple high level clouds in the mountains the rest of the night. Tomorrow morning plenty of sunshine. By 5 p. M. What you see is what you get. I know, kind of boring, nothing going on. We will watch for high fire danger in parts of wyoming, south dakota into nebraska tomorrow afternoon, some gusty winds out there. They havent seen much precipitation. So relative humidity values between 5 to 15 once again meaning we, too will be watching for high fire danger this weekend. 81 degrees saturday afternoon as we wind down the month of october, just wild. Well be in the low 80s across eastern colorado, about 85 in la lamar lamar and springfield, 60s in frisco and aspen, mid70s in evergreen, bailey, Idaho Springs and up in same, fantastic kind of weather. We stay in the 70s this weekend. Sunday next week a brief little system pushes in monday night into tuesday, maybe a couple sprinkles if were lucky Tuesday Morning and that storm system moves out. I mean how lucky are we . This is unbelievable. Its pretty nice. Im not complaining. I know we need the rain, but it feels delightful outside. Especially on the weekends. Anything you didnt get to check off your you still have time. Thank you, danielle. Coming up next in sports the nuggets talk about playing their final game that doesnt down the. Plus von miller explains doesnt count. Plus von miller explains why stocks a little bit down on wall street led by declines in phone companies, healthcare and energy stock. Verizon was from colorados sports leader heres. The broncos picked the perfect time to lose back to back games. There is no good time to lose twice. My point is no one seems to be talking about that. Instead everyone is focusing on facing former teammate turned just a denver thing. In houston brock is asked about it constantly as well. So i feel like if i let outside noise and things that really arent relevant to the game plan and emotions that arent relevant to the game creep in, really at the end of the day all its going to do is take me out of many i game. So thats why im trying to keep it as normal of a week as possible. So is playing against brock really that big of deal . Miller believes its just like playing against any ex teammate. It would be the same with malik or danny. Like i said earlier in the week, thats just how it is. Youre playing one of your brothers. Youre playing one of the guys youre playing with. So its just a little bit added sauce. You want to beat the guys when you play them in a game. The the week performance and 9news prep reporter taylor temby showing us. Reporter whats in a name anyway . Im proud to be named lindsay. Reporter in football its more than the letters on a jersey. We all have our different flavors and styles of how we play. Reporter its a brand, a position and a reputation. Its probably harder on them, so i expect more. Reporter in Denver High School football the lindsay uncle and cousins left their legacies. Marcus lindsay is on track to do the same. Being a lindsay just means you always do the right thing and you try to excel in everything you do. Reporter the South High School senior is known for his punishing style of play thats led the rebels to the top of the rankings. People say im a brute, just hard to bring down and fun to watch. Reporter marcus uncle attributes some of that passion to at marcus kind of patterns himself after his big brother. Reporter youve heard that name, phillip lindsay, the university of colorado running back, has proven to be an integral part of the buffs rise to prominence this season. Hes a beast, you know, and what i saw in him the other night was the phillip that he was here in high school. Reporter otherwise known as the tasmanian devil. Thats where he got it from here at south. Reporter younger brother reporter but its not the nicknames youll hear from the announcer. Its the family one. 9news prep reporter taylor temby, 9news. Its a good thing we will have High School Highlights tonight because everyone else is quiet on the sports front. The nuggets have a final preseason game against dallas. Just dont call this one a meaningless game. My message is really simple. Were treating tonights game like its our home opener. We have to go out there an we cant continue to make the same mistakes and have the same concerns. So tonight yes, its the last game of the preseason on paper, but our approach is lets play like its a real game. Heres the best part of the preseason ending. The regular season games next wednesday we can actually show you highlights because in these games, they arent televised and the nba in their infinite wisdom wont let us even shoot the highlights, so we cant even tell you whats happening. The nuggets won. All the more time to be outside. 80s on tap tomorrow. Can you believe it . Thank you. Nbc nightly news is next. We certainly appreciate you joining us. After that youll see next with kyle clark coming up at 6 00. Breaking news tonight, a massive wave of Cyber Attacks hits major websites and Internet Services like twitter, netflix, and amazon. Outages affecting consumers across the country. Tonight the fbi trying to find out whos behind it. Punches and punchlines. New attacks from donald trump after as he came face to face with hillary inton. And as trump decries a socalled rigged system, brandnew numbers about how many voters might not accept the outcome. Screen time. Whats the right amount for modern kids . All those devices, always connected. Tonight doctors throwing out the book on what weve been told about kids in the digital era. Unsung hero. An amazing friendship between a College Student and a campus janitor, breaking down walls and making
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