News Bits: Government Saves AIG

- The Federal Reserve lends insurer AIG $85 billion to stay afloat
- Howard Stern pranksters make out behind live news report from Wall Street
- 16 die in attack on U.S. Embassy in Yemen
- McCain adviser: McCain helped invent the Blackberry
- T-Mobile to show off the first Googlephone on September 23
- Austin hurricane shelters not as well-stocked as elsewhere
- World's shortest man meets world's leggiest woman
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