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USC PRICE/L.A. TIMES POLL Garcetti opens 10-point lead over Greuel A month before mayoral runoff, likely voters favor councilman over controller by 50% to 40%

By Michael Finnegan Mayoral choices Eric Garcetti has gained a Eric Garcetti has opened lead in the May 21 Los a commanding 10-point lead Angeles mayoral runoff in the Los Angeles mayor’s partly by eroding key parts race over rival Wendy of rival Wendy Greuel’s Greuel, whose dogged fight political base: Valley voters to win the backing of public and women. employee unions appears to be undercutting her on her Citywide Jim Rogash home turf in the San Fer- Getty Images Eric Garcetti 50% nando Valley, according to a RED SOX FANS hold signs to honor the Marathon bombing victims before a game against the Kan- new USC Price/Los Angeles sas City Royals at . Others on Saturday visited a makeshift memorial near the race’s finish line. Wendy Times poll. A month before the May Greuel 40% 21 runoff, likely voters fa- vored Garcetti over Greuel Don’t know by 50% to 40%. 10% The survey also found no Police tell of showdown sign of success for Greuel’s San Fernando Valley effort to gain an edge among women by highlighting her Eric Garcetti 43% potential to make history as the city’s first female mayor. Women preferred Garcetti, with two bomb suspects Wendy 50% to 41%. Greuel Latinos and younger 45% voters backed Garcetti by Surviving brother is still wider margins. The city Don’t know under heavy guard as 12% councilman from Silver Lake has strengthened his authorities wait with Men Women standing in the central city and Eastside neighbor- ‘a million questions.’ Garcetti 51% 50% hoods that he won decisively By Andrew Tangel, 38 41 in the March primary. He Greuel Sergei Loiko and has also built a solid lead on Don’t know 11 9 Alana Semuels the Westside — a key target Poll of 500 likely Los Angeles general of Greuel’s. election voters by phone April 15-17. Margin of error +/– 4.4 percentage Perhaps most worrisome BOSTON — The surviv- points. for Greuel, the city control- ing suspect in the Boston Source: USC Price/L.A. Times poll ler, is her failure so far to es- Marathon bombings re- Paul Duginski Los Angeles Times [See Poll, A16] mained under heavy guard in a hospital Saturday, with an injury to his neck compli- cating how he would be in- Massachusetts State Police terrogated and held for trial. AN INFRARED IMAGE shows suspect , 19, hiding in a boat The neck wound appar- Friday in Watertown, Mass. He was in the hospital Saturday with a neck wound. ently did not initially silence Bird flu stirs fowl Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who was swearing profusely in the ambulance ride after his final confrontation with the ‘’: A proud phobia in China FBI, according to a source familiar with the case. The Justice Department re- by police, fearing they might mained quiet Saturday on city shines through its pain No more chicken go viral. whether officials had been The fowl phobia gripping able to question Tsarnaev, dinners. The deadly China is the result of a new or whether they would at- the finish-line crowd at the By Michael A. Memoli, strain of avian flu that has tempt to do so before he con- . At the new H7N9 strain is Molly Hennessy-Fiske Legal debate led to 18 deaths and 95 diag- sults an attorney. Bruins-Penguins hockey and Maria L. La Ganga making people jumpy. nosed illnesses over the last “We are hoping, for a host game, where even the Pitts- surrounds arrest month. of reasons, that the suspect burgh team’s goalie wore a By Barbara Demick Civil libertarians and Health authorities are survives, because we have a BOSTON — The unoffi- Boston sticker on his hel- some GOP lawmakers concerned because of the million questions, and those cial new slogan of this bomb- met. express very different BEIJING — On a subway unpredictable nature of the questions need to be an- scarred city was everywhere Yes, Saturday was all concerns. NATION, A11 car in Shanghai, commotion virus, known as H7N9. Un- swered,” Massachusetts Saturday. about “Boston Strong.” But breaks out when someone like in previous incarnations Gov. Deval Patrick said. On highway signs along less than 24 hours after the Suspect recently spots a live chicken poking of avian flu, infected birds As Boston residents jubi- Interstate 90 and T-shirts in second bombing suspect visited Russia its head out of a bag tucked here are showing no signs of lantly flocked back to public the storied Italian neighbor- had been captured and a re- under one of the seats. being sick, making it harder spaces such as the Boston hood of the North End. On gion-wide lockdown was spent six months at On a highway in Zhejiang to stem the disease at its Common and Fenway Park placards held up by sticks in lifted, Saturday was also his father’s home in province, a motorist is so source. — where Neil Diamond led the Public Garden, and on about Boston shaken, Bos- Dagestan. NATION, A12 panicked by bird droppings So far, there is no evi- the Red Sox crowd in a rous- race bibs worn by a pair of ton saddened, Boston a little landing on her windshield dence that the strain of flu ing rendition of “Sweet Caro- runners waiting for the T at bit scared. Immigrant-rich that she stops the car and can be easily transmitted line” — there was yet anoth- the Haymarket stop. There were few better calls traffic police for help. from human to human; such er tragedy to commemorate. At Fenway Park, where places to see the storied city Cambridge reels Internet photos of dead transmission is an earmark Thousands gathered in the Red Sox played for the struggle with its emotions Residents of the ethni- sparrows on a Nanjing side- of a potential pandemic. Wilmington, Mass., for a first time since two home- than a makeshift memorial cally diverse community walk are ordered removed [See Bird flu, A6] [See Boston, A10] made bombs tore through [See City pride, A11] are baffled. NATION, A15

Texas spirit lives after fatal blast New signs of life on the Strip Devastating explosion in West didn’t dent a powerful sense of In Vegas, unemployment is down and tourism — and hope — are up community. NATION, A8 Parents get a taste of college By John M. Glionna Program exposes poor families to higher edu- LAS VEGAS — For nearly five cation. CALIFORNIA, A23 years, the steel-and-concrete skeleton of the abandoned resort project has Classic films’ taunted this city, a glaring reminder appeal endures that casino operators here can’t win Fans flock to festivals, every economic wager they place. Barbara Davidson L.A. Times The stalled Echelon project sits on but what’s the allure? hallowed gambling ground: It’s where CALENDAR, D1 Brush fire spurs the old Stardust casino was imploded. Complete Index ...... A2 evacuations Construction on the new $4-billion re- A helicopter, above, sort began in 2007 and froze a year lat- Weather: a.m. clouds. drops water on a blaze er — a failure so embarrassing that L.A. Basin: 76/56. A30 city officials later ordered owner Boyd near Monrovia. Gaming Corp. to build barriers to hide CALIFORNIA, A23 TODAY’S SECTIONS the remains. California, Business, Printed with soy inks on But those walls will soon come partially recycled paper. down because the property has been Sports, Calendar, Arts purchased by an Asian gaming power- & Books, Travel, Image house — one indication that Las Vegas’ devastated economy is on the Julie Jacobson Associated Press UP TO $140 IN mend. It’s the kind of comeback that is THE ECHELON site, after years of sitting unfinished, has been pur- COUPONS INSIDE 7 85944 10200 2 giving rise to [See Vegas, A17] chased by a Malaysian group that wants to build a $2-billion complex.