Obama's heading to Hawaii. Prayers to Obama's grandmother. We'll all carry on the campaign.
MSNBC: Campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters Monday that Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, who helped raise him, was released from the hospital late last week. But he says her health has deteriorated to the point where her situation is very serious.
Gibbs said Obama would return to the campaign trail on Saturday, though he was unsure where.
CNN: The interruption will cause Obama to cancel Thursday events in Madison, Wisconsin and Des Moines, Iowa. He will do an event in Indianapolis, Indiana, Thursday morning before leaving and will return to the campaign Saturday, Gibbs said.
Michelle Obama will fill in for her husband on Friday at previously scheduled events in Columbus and Akron, Ohio, his campaign said.
Obama has said his 85-year-old grandmother, who helped raise him, "poured everything she had" into him. She became sick in recent weeks.
The Obama team made the announcement after a day of trading attacks with Sen. John McCain on the Democratic presidential hopeful's readiness for office Monday night.
