Obama Cancels Trip to Visit Ailing Grandmother

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., gets on his campaign charter at Midway International Airport in Chicago, Monday, Oct. 20, 2008. Obama is canceling nearly all his campaign events Thursday and Friday to fly to Hawaii to visit his suddenly ill grandmother, his spokesman said. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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By Becky Ogann

Story Created: Oct 21, 2008 at 9:24 AM CST

Story Updated: Oct 21, 2008 at 9:24 AM CST

DES MOINES (AP) - Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has canceled a scheduled campaign trip to Iowa so that he can travel to Hawaii to visit his ailing grandmother.

Obama was scheduled to be in Des Moines for a rally on Thursday.

Senior Obama adviser Robert Gibbs says that Obama is leaving the campaign trail to visit his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham.

Gibbs says Dunham helped to raise Obama and her health has deteriorated to the point where her situation is very serious.

He says that Obama is expected to return to campaigning on Saturday. It's not clear if Obama will return to Iowa before election day.

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