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 you'd think. >> animal caused outages are one of our top four causes of outages in the state of colorado, so it's 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, you're not alone. that's 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 girl's parents want to us show these videos so that others can learn what happened to 10-year- old iceland. anastasiya bolton joins us 10-year-old 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 6-month-old. 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 daughter's needs were met. long before they noticed bruises on aislinn. what they saw on the video cameras they'd installed disturbed them, rough treatment on the changing table, a hit and the nurse then jerks aislinn's hair when she's in the wheelchair. prosecutors in douglas county charged vonnida with assault of an at risk victim a felony. aislinn's 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. that's not care in any sense of the word. she has a greater responsibility. she's trained. she's a professional in this field. there's no way you can define any of that as care. >> vonnida wouldn't talk to us. her punishment in our legal system has not been decided yet. she's back in court monday. her nursing license has been suspended and could be revoked after a hearing this spring. we'll hear more from aislinn's -- 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 friday's 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 hodgkin's and glenwood springs -- hodgkin's and glenwood springs. this cost $417 million to build, but it's nearly 60 million bucks less than the original cost estimates. the plant will undergo months of testing before it officially ranching and conservation haven't 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 colorado's grassland birds. >> reporter: on 1,500 acres near the palmer divide. >> we're kind of an island left here in the black forest. >> reporter: sits the kiowa creek ranch where there's 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 they're called. i call the audubon society and ask what they are. >> reporter: they've 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, they've 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 they've earned. >> it's 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 they're helping to maintain more bird has been at habitat. >> it's 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 denver's yeah, they're cheering, colorado ski season is underway, that's 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 18-inch 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 teen-agers parents should discuss limits and reevaluate those on a regular basis. other specific guidelines include no screen time an hour before bedtime. i'm 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. today's 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 a-basin 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 it's looking good. this weekend should be very pleasant if you're heading out, maybe a it's going to be a warmer weekend to come, too, 70s and possibly 80s. i'm 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 we're at 75 degrees, this weekend just fantastic. so far so good. we're nice and dry on hd doppler 9. i'll take you to the pacific northwest where once again they're 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 that's their storm system. high pressure around here with that one quick one that's 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 we're 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 haven't 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. we'll be in the low 80s across eastern colorado, about 85 in la lamar -- lamar and springfield, 60s in frisco and aspen, mid-70s 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 we're lucky tuesday morning and that storm system moves out. >> i mean how lucky are we? this is unbelievable. >> it's pretty nice. i'm not complaining. i know we need the rain, but it feels delightful outside. >> especially on the weekends. >> anything you didn't 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 doesn't down the. >> plus von miller explains -- doesn't 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 colorado's sports leader here's. >> 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 aren't relevant to the game plan and emotions that aren't relevant to the game creep in, really at the end of the day all it's going to do is take me out of many i game. so that's why i'm trying to keep it as normal of a week as possible. >> so is playing against brock really that big of deal? miller believes it's just like playing against any ex- teammate. >> it would be the same with malik or danny. like i said earlier in the week, that's just how it is. you're playing one of your brothers. you're playing one of the guys you're playing with. so it's 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: what's in a name anyway? >> i'm proud to be named lindsay. >> reporter: in football it's more than the letters on a jersey. >> we all have our different flavors and styles of how we play. >> reporter: it's a brand, a position and a reputation. >> it's 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 that's led the rebels to the top of the rankings. >> people say i'm 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: you've 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. >> he's 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. >> that's where he got it from here at south. >> reporter: younger brother >> reporter: but it's not the nicknames you'll hear from the announcer. it's the family one. 9news prep reporter taylor temby, 9news. it's 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 don't call this one a meaningless game. >> my message is really simple. we're treating tonight's game like it's our home opener. we have to go out there an we can't continue to make the same mistakes and have the same concerns. so tonight yes, it's the last game of the preseason on paper, but our approach is let's play like it's a real game. >> here's the best part of the preseason ending. the regular season games next wednesday we can actually show you highlights because in these games, they aren't televised and the nba in their infinite wisdom won't let us even shoot the highlights, so we can't even tell you what's 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 you'll 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 who's 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 so-called rigged system, brand-new numbers about how many voters might not accept the outcome. screen time. what's the right amount for modern kids? all those devices, always connected. tonight doctors throwing out the book on what we've 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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