Christa Rodriguez, 18, has the Philadelphia Flyers to thank for making her dream come true. Last night, the Flyers announced Miley Cyrus' originally scheduled April 22 concert was being moved up a day to accommodate the Flyers playoff schedule.

The cancer patient's doctors gave her the greenlight to attend the BANGERZ TOUR concert in Philadelphia next week.

"Me and my mom looked at each other and we were like -- YES!" said Rodriguez. "I'm so ecstatic because I thought I was't able to go."

The Upper Merion High School senior received a diagnosis in March around her birthday that the Hodgkin's Lymphoma she battled last year came back. Rodriguez is set to begin a second battle against cancer on April 22 at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

She's feeling good about the twist of fate.

"It is really good news despite bad news with my illness going on," Rodriguez said. "It takes a lot more chemo to get rid of it because it came back and it’s much harder to get rid of. I’m now missing a lot of stuff with my senior year and I have to pull back from college."

NBC10 reached out to Rodriguez to let her know about date change last night. She was ecstatic to hear the news. Today, she asked her doctors if she could attend the concert and they affirmed her request. Rodriguez says she knows she will be tired the next day starting treatment, but attending the concert is worth it.

Rodiguez admires Cyrus and "her willingness to be herself and to do what she wants despite what people think of her."

Last week, her twin sister Julia began a Twitter campaign to get Cyrus' attention to ask her to come to the hospital to visit Christa. Now that Christia will be able to attend the concert, the family is hopeful a meeting backstage is possible so friends are continuing the social media campaign using the hashtag #MileyVisitChrista.

Rodriguez will attend the concert with her sister and cousin and plans to dance all night to her favorite Cyrus songs --"Drive," "Rooting for My Baby," and "#GetItRight."

"It’s surreal right now that people I don’t even know are showing their support. It’s a great feeling. It’s very emotional. I feel like I have the best community in the world, especially in Upper Merion," said Rodriguez. "When you put your minds to something you can do it."

Contact Sarah Glover at 610-668-5580, sarah.glover@nbcuni.com or follow @skyphoto on Twitter.

Hip-hop artist Meek Mill says the Philadelphia police officers who arrested him in 2012 cost him a lot of money.

He's now suing the city and the two officers to try and get it all back.

Mill, whose real name is Robert Williams, was pulled over by two Philadelphia police officers on October 31, 2012. According to the complaint, Mill was handcuffed and taken to the 22nd Police District where he was held in a jail cell for nine hours.

The suit also claims that the arresting officers, Andre Boyer and Michael Vargas, took pictures of Mill while he was in custody and shared them on social media.

Mill is being represented by Philadelphia criminal defense attorneys Dennis J. Cogan and Associates.

Cogan said Mill was just trying to get he and two of his friends -- a Vice President of Warner Brothers Records, and an off-duty Ft. Lauderdale, Florida police officer who were also in the car -- to a chartered plane after Hurricane Sandy left them stranded in the Northeast.

"He drove into Philly to charter a private plane out. The cops stopped him for a so-called traffic violation, and instead of just giving him a ticket, they start asking him questions," Cogan said.

According to Cogan, the stop lasted nearly 40 minutes and eventually drew a crowd of people who were fans of Mill. Cogan said Mill and his friends were arrested when he refused to allow the police officers to search the car.

The officers, Cogan said, claimed to have stopped Mill because they smelled marijuana in the car, but no marijuana was found in the vehicle.

The complaint cites the city's 'Stop and Frisk' practices as a direct cause for the stop and subsequent arrest of Mill, and accuses the Philadelphia Police Department of "failing to properly train, supervise and discipline" its officers, among other claims.

One of the officers named in the suit, Boyer, was reportedly fired by Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey in 2013, following accusations of alleged questionable arrest reports, and drug and cash seizures.

Cogan said Boyer's troubled reputation only adds to the strength of his client's case.

Mill also has a troubled reputation.

Criminal court records indicate that the Maybach Music Group rapper was found guilty of careless driving and for failing to renew his vehicle's registration in the 2012 Halloween arrest. Court records also show the rapper has been arrested before, including a string of charges in 2007 that led to a drug and gun conviction in 2008.

Following the 2008 conviction, Mill served eight months of an 11- to 23-month term sentence and was placed on probation for two years.

"He's done really well since then. He's gotten himself together. He's a really nice kid," Cogan said.

He last butted heads with city officials in December of 2012 when he tried to fight a travel ban that was issued by a Philadelphia judge after a probation violation. A city judge issued an order that forbade Mill from traveling outside of Philadelphia for a month, causing him to miss a scheduled appearance on Conan in Los Angeles, and a tour stop in Africa.

According to TMZ, Mill says the 2012 arrest is unlawful and cost him $22,000 that he'd spent on a private jet that was supposed to take him to a scheduled party appearance in Atlanta, Ga.

Missing that appearance, he says, cost him another $39,000.

In addition, Mill claims negative publicity from the arrest reduced a deal he was negotiating with athletic apparel company Puma from $2 million to $650,000.

"He knows a lot of inner city people who got caught up in the life that--thanks to music--he was able to avoid. So, he is fortunate and he wants to be accepted by, not only the people who listen to his music but in the corporate office as well," Cogan said.

Mill is seeking compensatory and punitive damages, as well as an award of attorney fees and costs for civil rights violations, false imprisonment, invasion of privacy and civil conspiracy.

A man who was arrested for DUI over a dozen times pleaded guilty on Monday to striking and killing a motorcyclist while driving drunk.

Robert Landis, 50, pleaded guilty to homicide by vehicle, reckless endangerment and a slew of driving and alcohol charges.

On April 26, 2013, Landis struck and killed 24-year-old Liam Crowley in Westtown Township. Landis was driving his 2004 Dodge Ram when he turned his vehicle into oncoming traffic at Wilmington Pike (State Route 202) and Stanton Avenue.

Crowley's motorcycle, which was going straight, was struck by Landis' pickup at the intersection.

Landis told police the motorcycle "came out of nowhere," according to an affidavit obtained by NBC10.

"Liam Crowley would be alive today if Robert Landis had not blatantly disobeyed our laws," said Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department Chief Brenda Bernot. "But Landis has demonstrated that he does not care about others and his incredibly selfish acts on April 26 took the life of a young man with so much potential."

• READ: The Entire affidavit of probable cause

Officials say Landis was driving with a blood alcohol level of 0.28 -- three times the legal limit. Before the fatal crash, Landis already had seven DUI arrests on his record and five convictions.

"Getting behind the wheel of a pickup truck at night on the highway with this much alcohol in your system is like firing a 5,000 pound bullet into a crowd of people," said Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan.

Police say Landis had bloodshot eyes and smelled of alcohol as he slurred his speech following the crash.

Landis told police he only had "a couple of beers." Investigators say they found numerous empty and full beer cans in his pickup.

An investigation showed that Landis -- who was living with his mother -- was also driving on a suspended license. His mother Louise Landis, 85, was charged in July of 2012 with fraudulently registering Landis' pickup in her name.

According to court records, Landis pleaded guilty to five previous DUIs and was entered into an alcohol treatment program two other times -- dating all the way back to a 1981 arrest -- before the deadly crash. Hogan says Landis would have been eligible to drive as of 2012 if he had filled out proper paperwork.

Under state law, the minimum sentence Landis will serve for killing Crowley is three years. Crowley's parents are working with Hogan to increase the minimum sentence for vehicular homicide while driving under the influence to seven years for people convicted of three or more DUIs.

"There are no words I can find that adequately describe what I'm feeling," said Diane Crowley, Liam's mother. "Unless we all begin right now to make changes then there is a ridiculously strong chance that someone you love will be hurt or killed by a drunk driver."

State Senator John Rafferty says he will sponsor legislation for stiffer prison time for repeat DUI offenders.

Police are on the hunt for a man who they say flashed a female jogger at a park in Wilmington, Delaware.

The 55-year-old woman told police she was jogging on a Brandywine Park Trail along North Park Drive on Saturday around 3:35 p.m. when she spotted a man standing in the distance.

As she ran by him, the man allegedly exposed his genitals to her. The woman took a picture of the man and then contacted police as the suspect fled, according to investigators.

Police suspect the man is also responsible for previous indecent exposure incidents reported last summer at Brandywine Park.

The suspect is described as a man in his early 30’s with black curly hair. The picture shows that the man was wearing a blue sweatshirt, dark running shorts with white and blue stripes and bright blue running shoes.

If you have any information on the suspect’s whereabouts or identity, please call Wilmington Police Detective Justin Kreysa at 302-576-3646. You can also contact the Wilmington Police Confidential Tip Line at 302-576-3990 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333.
 

A man was arraigned on Monday after he allegedly stabbed his pregnant mother to death.

Police say Leon Wilson, 21, stabbed his mother, 42-year-old Scarlett Wilson, multiple times on Sunday, shortly before 10 p.m. inside their home on the 600 block of Jersey Avenue in Gloucester City.
Investigators say the stabbing appeared to have stemmed from an argument between the two.

Wilson was taken to Cooper Hospital where she later died from her injuries. Her child was delivered however and is being treated at Cooper.

Leon Wilson was arrested and charged with murder. He was arraigned Monday afternoon at Camden County Superior Court.

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A young boy is in the hospital after a shooting in North Philadelphia.

Police say the 11-year-old boy was sitting on a bicycle in front of his grandmother's home on the 2500 block of North 9th Street early Monday evening when he was struck by a stray bullet.

Investigators say the bullet grazed the boy in the left side.

He was taken to St. Christopher’s Hospital where he is currently in stable condition.

No arrests have been made and a weapon has not been recovered.

Investigators say the incident may be related to a shooting that took place around the same time on Germantown Avenue.

Stay with NBC10.com for more details on this developing story.

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• Child Shot in the Back
  
• Teen Playing With Gun Accidentally Shot: Police
  

A dusty red moon known as a "blood moon" will be visible throughout the Western Hemisphere early Tuesday morning, the first of four such lunar eclipses over the next year and a half. But we may not be able to see much of it in the Philadelphia area due to cloudy skies. 

A lunar eclipse comes only when a full moon aligns perfectly with the sun and Earth. During the eclipse, the Earth's shadow is cast across the moon, blocking the rays from the sun.

The moon turns red during an eclipse because the sunlight is refracted, similar to the way it is bent during a sunset.

Scientists say the eclipse will first appear dark gray and then turn red-orange.

For those in the tri-state area, the eclipse will begin at 1:58 a.m. Tuesday, and last for more than three hours. The best viewing time will be when everything is perfectly aligned, starting at 3:07 a.m., lasting 78 minutes.

However, due to cloudy conditions, residents in the Philadelphia area likely will only be able to catch glimpses of the eclipse as clouds move throughout the sky.

Three other blood moons will be visible Oct. 8, April 4, 2015 and Sept. 28, 2015.

Lunar eclipses are safe to watch without protective wear, unlike solar eclipses.

Maybe it was too good to be true. After several days of warm temperatures and sunshine, we’re in for heavy rain, colder air and even the chance of a brief period of snow. Yes, you read that right. Snow.

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The nasty turn in our weather is set to begin overnight into Tuesday morning, with heavy pockets of rain and a possible thunderstorm. Tuesday will be a rainy and windy day with winds gusting near 30 miles per hour. Temperatures will remain warm however with highs in the mid-60’s.

That changes however Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. As the cold front bringing rain to our area moves out, very cold air will start to move in. That cold air will cause temperatures to drop into the 30’s. It could also bring in a thin band of snow.

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Several models are indicating the snow could hit west of our area by 8 p.m. on Tuesday before moving into Philly as well as parts of the North and West suburbs and South Jersey by 11 p.m.

If there is any snow, it will be brief, likely lasting up to an hour and a half and moving out well before the morning commute.  Little to no accumulation is expected, with only a coating to two inches on grassy surfaces.

“The snow will be falling after the evening commute and well before the morning commute,” said NBC10 First Alert Meteorologist Sheena Parveen. “I don’t think everyone is even going to see snow. I think we’re just going to have a very brief period of snow falling. At the same time it’s still going to be very windy so it’s going to be very hard for the snow to settle.”

The real issue Tuesday night into Wednesday will be the temperatures, with a freeze watch in effect for parts of the area. Temperatures will be below freezing during that time in the North and West and around the freezing level in Philadelphia. That means there could be the slight chance of some icy spots on roads.

“It doesn’t look like icing should be a threat Wednesday morning just because of how warm the roads have been,” said NBC10 First Alert Meteorologist Sheena Parveen. “I don’t want to say there definitely won’t be any but it will be so brief that the chances of any bad road conditions will be very low.”

While Wednesday morning will be cold with temperatures in the low 30’s, they should rise into the 50’s by the afternoon. We’re then in for more sun and warmer temperatures Thursday and Friday.

Stay with NBC10.com for updated details on the weather forecast.
 

Philadelphia residents will get the chance to learn more about Mayor Michael Nutter’s 2015 budget plan during several public hearings taking place in April and May.

“The Neighborhood Budget Hearings are held for the convenience of Philadelphia residents who work and live outside of Center City,” Council President Darrell L. Clarke said. “This is the third consecutive year City Council has held Neighborhood Budget Hearings, and it is my hope that the public gets even more engaged in the budget process this year.”

The first neighborhood budget hearing will be held on April 30 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the West Oak Lane Charter School on 7115 Stenton Avenue.

“Bringing the hearing to the people in their own neighborhoods in addition to City Hall provides convenience for constituents and increased opportunities to hear from residents we might otherwise not hear from," Councilwoman Marian Tasco (9th District) said. "This forum increases opportunities to apply diverse thinking and fresh ideas to the budget process, and creates yet another platform for residents to voice their concerns."

The second neighborhood budget hearing will be held on May 13 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Lutheran Theological Seminary on 7301 Germantown Avenue.

“I encourage residents of the 8th District and beyond to seize this opportunity to tell us what they think the City of Philadelphia’s priorities should be,” Councilwoman Cindy Bass (8th District) said. “We welcome and need the input of our neighbors to craft a budget that truly helps move our City forward.”

The public will also be able to give public testimonies on the budget on April 22 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Room 400 of City Hall.

Finally, a public hearing on the proposed budget for the Philadelphia School District will be held on May 7 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Room 400 of City Hall.

You may call 215-686-3407, email Budget.Hearings@Phila.gov or visit the Budget Center website for more information.
 

Police are commending two passengers who stepped in to help after they say an unruly man spit on a SEPTA bus driver.

Police say a Route 20 bus was traveling on the 9100 block of Convent Lane in Northeast Philadelphia around 1:30 p.m. on Friday when a passenger began to act disorderly in the back.

The driver of the bus stopped the vehicle and called police. Investigators say he then went to the back to check on the passenger when the man allegedly spit on him.

Investigators say the driver then left the bus to wait for responding officers. As he was waiting, the suspect allegedly began to verbally abuse and threaten other people on the bus.

That’s when, police say, two of the passengers stepped in. Security cameras captured the two men grabbing the suspect and forcing him off the bus.

Officers arrived at the scene shortly after and arrested the man, who has not yet been identified. The suspect was charged with harassment and disorderly conduct.

While SEPTA Police Chief Thomas Nestel cautioned that they don’t normally encourage passengers to intervene during a situation, he was still glad that the men helped out the driver.

“The big message here is that we’re not gonna take this crap against our operators,” Nestel said. “If somebody acts like that against an operator or a fellow rider, they’re getting arrested. We’re gonna hook them up with a cheese sandwich.”
 

Residents were allowed back inside their homes after police say a suspicious device was found inside a building in the Queen Village section of the city.

PGW workers were called to a home on the 700 block of South 4th Street Monday night for a report of a gas odor. When they arrived, they found a milk jug with an unidentified liquid as well as wires inside. The wires were attached to a timer that was plugged into a wall outlet of a home.

Several houses as well as an apartment building in the area were evacuated and police as well as the bomb squad were called to the scene.

Police told NBC10 the device was set to go off at 11 p.m. and that it could have caused a fire inside the building. However, a PGW worker managed to pull the wire from the milk bottle which prevented anything from happening.

Investigators say the device is still inside the building but that the area is safe.

Police are now searching for the person who created the device and investigators are still at the scene.

Several homes on the street, including the one where the device was found, are currently under construction.

The device was located in the same area where Philadelphia Fire captain Michael Goodwin died almost a year ago.

On April 6, 2013, Goodwin was on the roof of Jack B. Fabrics at 4th and Fitzwater, when the roof of the building collapsed, trapping him inside. Goodwin was a 29-year veteran of the Philadelphia Fire Department.

A man is dead and a suspect is in custody following a shooting outside a popular bar and restaurant just blocks from the University of Pennsylvania campus overnight Monday.

Police say that a fight between the victim and suspect began inside the Copabanana on 40th and Spruce Streets in University City. The altercation spilled out onto the sidewalk and that's where the shooting happened.

The victim, identified as 31-year-old Timothy Cary of Philadelphia, was shot at least 10 times at point-blank range, according to officials.

"Eighteenth District Police arrived on location. They had a victim lying on the sidewalk, unconscious, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the torso," said Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small.

Cary was rushed to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where he was pronounced dead shortly after, Scott said.

Police say he was also shot once in the head.

The suspect, who took off on foot following the shooting, was apprehended on Pine Street by University of Pennsylvania Police. They also found the semi-automatic gun used in the murder.

Police say the suspect is in custody and in the process of being charged.

They say there was about 25 people in the bar at the time of the shooting. None of those patrons were UPenn students, according to police.