On tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff president elect donald trump announced a shakeup today at the top of his incoming transition team. Vice president elect mike pence will take over as chair, replacing new jersey governor chris christie, who becomes a vicechair. Former House SpeakerNewt Gingrich and former new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani will be among the other vice chairs on the executive committee. Members of the Committee Also include mr. Trumps three older children donald, jr. ; eric and ivanka as well as ivankas husband, soninlaw jared kushner. In a statement, the president elect said and in his first news interview since the election, mr. Trump told the wall street journal he is open to keeping some parts of the Affordable Care act. Well have more on mr. Trumps postelection moves later in the program. Protesters nationwide spent another night rallying against the president elect. Demonstrations came to a head in portland, oregon, where thousands squared off with police, throwing bottles and rocks. Officers responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. They made 26 arrests. For his part, mr. Trump tweeted that the protesters were very unfair but later said he loved their passion for our great country. The United Nations says the Islamic State has carried out a new wave of public killings and atrocities in the iraqi city of mosul. It reports that, in the last week, militants executed at least 70 civilians. Some were hung from telephone poles. Meanwhile, in geneva, a spokeswoman for the u. N. Said the group could be gearing up to use chemical weapons. We dont know when and for what purposes they are stockpiling these, but, given what they have done in the past, we are worried about the reasons for their stockpiling of these chemicals in mosul right now. We can only speculate how they. They intend to use this. Woodruff the announcement comes as Iraqi Security forces inched their way into mosul. They have been slowed by heavy resistance and isis fighters using human shields. Back in this country, president obama used veterans day to call for unity in the wake of a bitter election. Mr. Obama laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown at Arlington National cemetery. He said americans should learn from the military in finding ways to come together. The american instinct has never been to find isolation in opposite corners; it is to find strength in our common creed to forge unity from our great diversity, to sustain that strength and unity even when it is hard. Woodruff meanwhile, britain and france commemorated armistice day, marking the end of world war i. Prince harry led a service at the Armed Forces Memorial in england while french president Francois Hollande laid a wreath at his countrys tomb of the unknown. Stocks were mixed on wall street today, but the Dow Jones Industrial average closed at a record high, extending its post election rally for another day. The dow gained more than 39 points to close at 18,847. The nasdaq rose 28 while the s p 500 slipped three. For the week, the dow gained more than 5 , its best week since december 2011. Both the nasdaq and the s p 500 rose nearly 4 . And secretary of state john kerry has become the highest ranking u. S. Official to visit antarctica. Hes spending two days there, meeting with scientists and getting a firsthand look at the impact Climate Change has had on the southernmost continent. Kerry is gathering information before he attends a global Climate Change summit in morocco on tuesday. Still to come on the newshour the fallout from a sharply divided election plays out in schools across the nation; mark shields and david brooks on what voters were saying and what lies ahead; healing in paris one year after deadly terror attacks darkened the city of light; and much more. Woodruff now, more on the aftermath of tuesdays election. We take two looks at the ways that the rhetoric and emotion of the highly charged president ial campaign continue to reverberate. First, we go to manassas, virginia, about 30 miles west of washington, d. C, near the site of the first major battle of the civil war. After decades of supporting republicans, virginia voted democratic on tuesday for the third consecutive president ial election. The states demographics are shifting rapidly, but, like much of america, the division between red and blue is stark. We spoke with people from across of the political spectrum caught up in the wake of one of the biggest political upsets in our nations history. Here are some of their voices. A lot of division has occurred in this great country over the last decade, and a lot of them is almost reflective to the time period of when the guns placed on this battlefield and men fought for what they believed in, and i think america is kind of in the same scenario where were divided on our beliefs in politics. To me, as i travel the country, i just feel the sense of urgency to repair it. Brett tucker, 46 from Washington State and i voted for mr. Trump. My name is don clements, i am 80 years old. I live at st. Josephs, illinois, and i voted for donald trump for president. Ive seen john kennedy, and i did not vote for him. I wished i would have. Ive seen ronald reagan, dwight eisenhower, you know, during my lifetime. See, i voted in every president ial election since 1958 i think thats about right and these are the two weakest candidates that ive ever seen that i had to vote for. Im susan from virginia, im 67 years old, and i voted for donald trump for president of the United States of america. I think people in this country should do more than its share. I traveled around the world by the time i was 21 and i uh looked at all they have with our infrastructure, with the railroads and all, and they have so much better than we do. Im vanessa allen. Im retired, and life is not easy, and i am a democrat. I think weve got a lot of dummies. I really do. I mean, if you truly listen to what he says, i dont even see how you can push that button on that computer voting for him. Its crazy. I worked all my life, never took, never got, unless i made it, and now what . You know . So i dont think hell do anything great, i really dont. Im 23 years old and i voted Bernie Sanders as a writein. I was born in germany and my parents are from afghanistan. Im not primarily concerned about the president himself. Im more concerned about the people hes riled up, the people that are feeling like they fueled the fire to be able to do whatever they want to do. We cant succumb to what they want, and we need to be much stronger than we ever were before. Im nathan lowery, a fiveyear army combat veteranch. And this is my wife. Im a nursing student. We just got married in october. We are here in our house in virginia. Already after we found out that president elect trump won, people have gotten bolder. There have been cases where women are pumping gas and they have been yelled at to take off their scarf or walking in a Grocery Store and telling them that this is going to be the end of you and its time for you to leave, and its only the beginning, and im sure that everyone is going to see a rise in it. Whemr. Trump says make America Great again, he means lets bring it back to where it was and move it forward and make it even greater and i am absolutely convinced he will do that. My name is alice butler short, founder and director for women for trump. Immigrants will always be welcome in this country, but the right immigrants. Weve got to keep this country safe, and we have had experiences of terrorism and terrorist attacks and we know its not going to end. So we have to take precaution. My name is thomas vladimir mendoza, and i am a u. S. Citizen. I live in the United States, so im american, but i was born in el salvador. My fear is that i wont have a job, that i wont be able to feed my child. Dont fear a loud mouth. You know what i mean . Thats what this person is. I have a lot of friends that are loud mouths, and you dismiss it because theyre friends. But because this guy is going to be the president , its really hard to dismiss it. Yoyou cannot just say, ehes jut talking, man, its just locker room talk, no, its true, he has that in him, but, you know, the people are not going to let him do that. I hope. I have faith. Thats what everybody wakes up and should have, faith that things will be better. Woodruff some powerful voices. Next, school children, and how the combative political season has effected them. And to Hari Sreenivasan in new york. Sreenivasan teachers and parents across the country report heightened anxiety and disappointment among some students, even a number of School Walkouts in recent days. In other cases, incidents of intimidation and bullying have been reported, including graffiti with swastikas, calls for white power in a pennsylvania high school, and Michigan Middle School students chanting build that wall during lunch period. The newshours student reporting labs gathered these reactions from across the country. When i found out that donald trump won the election, i was scared. I was just staring at my phonein shock and i had no idea what was going to happen next. Im not devastated that trump is president. I think it sends a pretty strong message to the American People that something needs to change. A vote for trump does not mean you are a bigot, racist or antiwoman. Maybe the country needs to be run as a business so we can get things done. I dont understand how such a hateful man can rise to power so quickly. I have been really angry, now im just tired. Im tired that he is now state sponsored. I feel like a lot of the students, people in general, educated themselves through social media and what was on television rather than informing themselves. I feel like as minorities and people of color, at Lgbt Community and muslims and anybody win whos expressed inequality, we all need to make sure we stay in school, handle our business and are good at what we do so in the next election we can make sure we make our voices heard. We are the ones represented in the communities. My kerns are donald is going to lose his temp a little bit sometimes and say not so smart things and get some people angry, but i dont think hes going to make too many bad decisions. I think he knows where hes going and what hes doing. The fact someone like trump is able to to be elected, the things he says for women and people of different races, the fact its okay for him to say those things seems like it makes it okay for other peoples to. My biggest concern is war. With trump, its going to be a civil war and the question is who will win either of those. Seeing that my generation doesnt want to take action or take responsibility for their future and my future, our future, i just dont want to stay in a country like this if thats what its going to be like. There is no doubt that the president elect came as a huge shock to me, but i call our citizens to have respect and faith in our country. Weve made it through a civil war two, world wars, the great depression, but this is no fight. We elected someone new as president that should not be tearing us apart, it should be bringing us together. Sreenivasan for a closer look at these about them, we turn to Kavitha Cardoza of education week, who has been talking to teachers across the country; and mariama richards, a counselor and administrator at Friends Central School outside philadelphia. Kavitha cardoza, well start with you. What have you found in your reporting in the past couple of days . This is something teachers are used to. They have been dealing with these emotions through the campaign season. The Election Results just made it more concrete. Children in schools are just a mike kosum of society and, so, theyre not surprised at all that some of these emotions are spilling into the classroom. Sreenivasan so are these the students own opinions or are they parroting what their parents say at home . I think a bit of both. With the teenager we just saw, some of it is their own because they are reading and watching the television themselves, but i spoke to a teacher in california, and she teaches prek, and she says children just absorb the stress of their parents, and, so, she teaches in a very diverse community, a lot of muslims, a loft immigrants, and she says she has noticed that the children are more aggressive, theyre more prone to crying, getting emotional, so she and other teachers have actually putting the academic goals on hold with these children and have said, you know what . Lets create our own curriculum, how to be a good friend, how to listen, how to be calm when you feel upset. She said a lot of the parents are stressed about maybe their families being split up, maybe losing healthcare if obamacare goes away. Sreenivasan mariama richards, what kind of things are you grappling with at your school or the teachers have been coming to you with . One of the biggest issues in front of us right now is a community that wants to see change happen, that felt really connected to the election season, regardless of which side that particular student or family was on, and now theyre grappling with kind of how do they push through some of the values that they really do love and appreciate about the community that theyre building and finding that theres a split in perspective on how to move forward. For example, there are students who feel so angry and upset now that its hard for them to think of engaging those who may have voted for our current president elect because they see that engagement as people who think less of them, who dont think theyre full human beings, while there are other students who may not necessarily be on the side of the president elect as well, but theyre in a position where they feel like this is an opportunity for us to learn what the other side of the world is thinking. So even in places where you have commonalities in terms of goals, were still seeing students really struggle with kind of whats our best case moving forward. With the little ones, they are struggling with very similar things that we just heard fear, they are hearing lots of information and not understanding the context for it, and we see it play out definitely in the classroom setting and how theyre connecting with others, whether or not they feel reserved, whether or not they feel fear, and we are, as teachers, trying to support them in the process of getting through that. Sreenivasan Kavitha Cardoza, are the teachers saying, in essence, what children are feeling . I mean, is there a collective sense of anxiety or tension regardless of which side of the election they came down on . I think the teachers are really, really making a concerted effort to, no matter what their personal believes, to be the oasis of calm for the children and to kind of bring everyone together. There are a lot of students who, for example, supported Climate Change and they are devastated, weve heard reports. There are students, i spoke to a teacher in ohio, and she said her students came with trump tshirts and the make America Great again caps and they were thrilled. So within these schools, all the children teach how do you make it safe and calm andertful. Sreenivasan mariama richards, you took steps to prepare the children and the parents. What do you hear now . We have been in constant communication which is key to the partnership with families and the letters weve sent home included additional links for support and in some cases we have parents who want us to move away and say, okay, its over, lets now move on with the practice of going to school and doing the work and other families are so ultimately grateful that were taking the time to be able to help their children through this process, and i think what weve learned as a Quaker School thats embedded in the valuecentered curriculum is we know students if students do not feel affirmed, they wont learn. We wont be able to teach math if they feel scared or at risk, so we have to be able to find a wonderful balance of incorporating both of those in the classroom setting. Sreenivasan Kavitha Cardoza, we have been seeing an increase on every educational level from middle schools to high schools to colleges of acts of intimidations, bullying, swastikas spray painted here and there. What are you seeing in your reporting . A lot more, hari. One, these kids tape and share everything on social media so its much more accessible. Today on my twitter feed, i saw someone say my daughter came home from school and said she no longer has to be politically correct, she heard. So youre see ago lot of things that kids, some dont know what the implications are and what it means, but because its being shared so widely, kids, you know, just copy sometimes. Sreenivasan Kavitha Cardoza, mariama richards, thank you both. Thank you, hari. Woodruff on veterans day, we turn to what a Trump Administration might mean for those who have served our country. On election day, 61 of veterans voted for mr. Trump, 34 voted for secretary clinton. 45 of nonveterans voted for trump while half voted for clinton. So, what do vets expect a President Trump to do . William brangham has more. Brangham candidate trump repeatedly expressed his support for those whove served in the u. S. Armed forces, and that showed on election day. But he also angered many with his denigration of senator john mccain and of the khan family, whos son die