as a former president of the edia, one of his proudest accomplishment was to safe 88 homes from the demolition for a parking lot. john organized a petition drive and delivered 8,000 signatures to city hall to successfully stop the demolition. i can't imagine that happening now, what an incredible feat that would be. john was a very active member of corpus christi church which is right across the street from his home in the excelsior. even recently he he served in many capacities at the parrish and school. along with his siblings john continued the [speaker not understood] that his mother helped start in the church in the 1940s. my father also when he comes to san francisco goes to corpus christi church. john once invited my father to his home for breakfast. john has served as a role model at his alma mater, balboa high school where he has played -- played right end and won [speaker not understood] honors in 1934. in 1 79 he was inducted into the balboa hall of fame in recognition of his accomplishments. john was a proud member of other organizations in the city including the balboa tennis club

the vote. we will have more when we return. ♪ >> time for today's company news. rupert murdoch's 20th century fox plans to form it television production team. idol,edia handlesdutch producer big brother. have had talks about a possible combination. it is open to a tie up with another telecom company as the christ war dance earnings -- earnings.ce war dents that would almost triple the company's value from $3.5 billion last year when it last raised funds. welcome back to "countdown." it is 16 minutes past seven. the indian elections results are just starting to filter through. the early indicators are that the bjp has done very well. let's get some reaction from across bridge capitals analyst maneesh singh. interesting to you today is how well the bjp seems to be doing in the early counting on their own. if they can cross that 272 seed at mark, then they can form a government without a coalition. mr. modi was for minimum government and maximum governance. election forficant india and for the emerging market. the growth and reforms have to come from the emerging market. the bjp does get a majority, what does that enable them to do that they would not o