the current chair of the board of regents is richard bloom. richard lum is someone who i see as a very conflicted individual on one hand he has a free tibet bumper sticker on the back of his b.m.w. he has said on several occasions that he is a passionate advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons on the other hand he was deeply invested in the your ass corporation and primi corporation both of whom received construction contracts to rebuild iraq after us imperial forces leveled that country on the other hand richard long as the chairman of the board of regents who was managing the national nuclear weapons labs a lot of business connections get a man for example arnold schwarzenegger's personal financier paul walker who is second only to his wife in terms of people who have influence and sway over governor schwarzenegger and paul walk there is and you see regent it's that sort of connection that gets people pointed and you say region. the large body of people at the university are reaching out to the region set asking them and trying to get t

bloom has details. >> reporter: four years ago sir richard branson created an airline.back to expand it and it starts with this million dollar replica of the inside of a jetliner. ceo david curb explains the simulators is here because within six months virgin america will have twice as many planes they will need crews and they will come here for training. virgin america may be the new kid but plans to use customer service to compete with the big boys. >> i've always been baffled the way that the airline industry doesn't seem to worry too much about its customers. it is just like herding cattle onboard planes and herding them off. >> reporter: to hear branson tell it, it seems to be working. united and american airlines reduce the size of our operations at sfo virgin america's presence is growing. the airline intends to add 500 jobs every year for the next few years. >>> 4:44. a piece of san francisco history in the castro goes missing what police think happened to a plaque honoring harvey milk. >>> hunt on in the midwest after dozens of exotic and dangerous animals esca

johnathan bloom hears from those involved of >> you have to ask the question, what has this all been for? >> in the wars in afghanistan and iraq now, end the wars. >> for more than two decades richard helped organize protests against the first and second wars in iraq. though the troops are finally coming home, becker said his work is far from over. >> we wish the war was completely coming to an end, but the displacements the disunity, the disruption in iraq has not ended and thousands of cia contractors are going to stay in the country. >> his group, answer, represents soldiers who were ready for the war to end, like this army veteran, james schwartz. >> it's unattainable. there's no way to accomplish the mission. we went in there, got rid of saddam, and we've been there for ten years now and i don't see how we can finish anything. >> we didn't send enough people. we didn't properly equip them. and there were no weapons of mass destruction. >> that criticism comes from the former general of california's army national guard. after his troops were called up for duty, he struggled through red tape to get them radios and body armor. >> the drivers and the security people, nothing. i me