it also makes it harder to fund social security and ultimately, frederica, it hurts economic growth.er lining, oil prices plunge. why is that? >> yeah. because when things slow down, demand for oil slows down, so it's not just the job market. you see slowing down in overall economic activity. that's gdp. gdp slowed from the last three months of last year to the first three months of this year, and when the economy slows, we use less oil. then you see oil prices drop. as they did today. they plunged $4 today below $100 a bir rel. that's the lowest oil price since february. >> wow. incredible. thanks so much. allison, appreciate that. >>> next on reporter reulet, defense secretary leon pineda telling troops to be on their best behavior. what is he expected to say? >> well, right now the defense secretary is speaking at fort benning, georgia, to a group of army soldiers about to deploy but really speaking to the entire merl force. there's been a number of these high profile incidents of misbehaving. videos showing urinating on dead troops and posing with dead bodies, and a number of inc