Billion Dollar Palace Overlooks Slums in India
HOLMES: Ah, the White House in Washington, D.C. That's a beautiful, beautiful crib, wouldn't you all say? It's 26 minutes past the hour here on this CNN SATURDAY MORNING. That house you're looking at right there - guys, we can essentially call that a slum compared to the house in India. Well, welcome back, folks. We're talking about this house - if you can call it a house. Let's show the picture of it. It's a more so a - that's a skyscraper. It is a monstrosity. It's pretty ugly, to be quite honest with you. That's not aesthetically pleasing necessarily, is it?</s>LEVS: It - it's just - it's different.</s>LEVS: People can love it, hate it.</s>SCHNEIDER: It's just so massive. Four hundred thousand square feet?</s>HOLMES: Yes.</s>SCHNEIDER: How do you live in that much space?</s>LEVS: And it's one man with three children. And why does he need three helipads?</s>HOLMES: It's going to be - everybody needs to own a helipad. This is for a family of six altogether. But the richest man in India built this place - 27 stories, and it cost $1 billion. The first of its kind that we've ever heard of that costs that amount. Again, 27 floors here. But the part that got me: 168 parking spaces. I guess if you entertain -- .</s>LEVS: Big parties.</s>SCHNEIDER: Yes, you have a lot of guests over.</s>HOLMES: If you entertain - but the helipads got a lot of people thinking as well. But it's six people.</s>LEVS: And he's naming it Antalya (ph) after this mythical island, and apparently it's a big controversy now because he overlooks all these slums and you have an incredible number</s>HOLMES: India.</s>SCHNEIDER: Right, India has the - you know, the wealth of - now more billionaires than they ever had before, but then you have the slums right next to it. So it's really a land of extremes. And that's where the controversy comes in.</s>HOLMES: And I mean, what do you do? This guy is worth - Forbes estimates about $29 billion.</s>LEVS: Yes.</s>HOLMES: He has the money to spend, throw around. This is a - what is he - an oil tycoon I believe he is. But my goodness, the place - there you go. It took him seven years, I believe they said, to build this thing. And it's about to - he's about to move in.</s>LEVS: His house - wealth is now literally hanging over everyone's head.</s>SCHNEIDER: Yes, you're right.</s>HOLMES: All right. All right. Let's turn to Mount Everest now. I don't know if we have video of this one as well. But Mount Everest --</s>LEVS: Now this is cool.</s>HOLMES: -- this is the highest peak on the planet. Well, you can actually on some places on I-20 here in Atlanta - you can't get cell service, but you can get it at Mount Everest now.</s>SCHNEIDER: See, I think they did this because, once you're up there, you want to call everyone and say, 'Hey, I did it. I climbed the mountain.'</s>HOLMES: I'm here. Or you might want to call and say, 'Hey, can you come get me? I'm in trouble.'</s>SCHNEIDER: That's true.</s>HOLMES: But they have put in 3</s>G -- LEVS:  3G. HOLMES: -- service. It's set up at the - the base there at Mount Everest. They have - they say they put this up because they have so many visitors that do come up there. And like you say - Bonnie has a good point - people get up there, and maybe you don't climb all the way, or trying to get to the peak, but people just go there anyway and go through and they want to call and get cell-phone service -- .</s>LEVS: But how does your phone not freeze at that temperature? I think a lot of phones would crack and break. So you have to get a special phone maybe. But they - to test it, they made the world's first video cell- phone call at 17,000 feet. They say it actually worked.</s>HOLMES: And we have done some live shots - remember the young man who was climbing - I think he was 14 years old or something.</s>LEVS: Oh yes, right.</s>HOLMES: We were able to get him on the phone and get satellite shot and all kinds of stuff.</s>SCHNEIDER: See, the only thing is, when you're up that high --</s>HOLMES: Yes.</s>SCHNEIDER: -- you got to be very careful not to drop your phone. Because you will never see it again.</s>LEVS: Gone for good.</s>SCHNEIDER: Yes.</s>HOLMES: Just a couple of stories we were keeping an eye on. And this is one we were telling you about last - telling you about last weekend. Celine Dion - she's got her hands full this weekend, but she's happy to have her hands full. And she's happy to share her new little bundles of joy with the world. We're going to introduce you to the newest members of her family coming up. Plus, three days left until the election. We can't wait until Tuesday, so we got our own polls. All we want got to do is wait three more days, and we'll know who's going to win the thing. But nah, we're going to keep sharing polls with you. It's 30 minutes - well, we're at the bottom of the hour here on this CNN SATURDAY MORNING. Stick around, folks.