long time, so there was something she was looking at. bill: they timed it, 6.8 seconds. martha: yes. it's not to dismiss it as something she needed to look at the that point. on to this now, brand new predictions, folks, in some of the tightest election race necessary this country, larry sabato, his crystal bawl, we've had him here almost every week and now he's locked down his picks, made his final calls for the mid-term elections of 2010, in the house. he has republicans picking up five seats. as it -- 55 seats, takes stands, that would give them the majority and in the senate, he has republicans picking up eight seats, that is short of the ten that they would need to gain control of the united states senate. larry sabato is here, he is the author of "pendulum swing" which was a story about the 2010 term. so he's been doing this a long time, and he's director of the center for politics at the university of