With some of the East Coast in the state of emergency Saturday, President Obama will cancel some campaign events Monday -- including one with Bill Clinton -- and return to the White House.

Obama will still attend an event in Youngstown, OH, with Clinton but then will return to Washington D.C.

"The President will return to the White House to continue to monitor Hurricane Sandy, which is currently forecasted to make landfall along the Eastern seaboard late that day," Obama's press secretary said in a statement. "As a result, the events in Northern Virginia on Monday and in Colorado Springs on Tuesday have been cancelled. Additional changes to Tuesday's schedule will be announced as warranted."

"The President is being regularly updated on the storm and ongoing preparations, and he has directed his team to continue to bring all available resources to bear as state and local partners continue to prepare for the storm. FEMA has already deployed teams and has pre-staged resources to potentially affected states and areas ahead of the storm, and FEMA remains in close contact with emergency responders in states up and down the East coast to ensure there are no unmet needs. The President will continue to receive regular briefings on these efforts, and has made clear that he expects his team to continue to lean forward as Hurricane Sandy approaches."

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is scheduled to campaign in Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin on Monday.

WASHINGTON -- Hurricane Sandy is disrupting the Obama and Romney campaigns' sprint to the finish as the storm works its way up the East Coast, with events in battleground Virginia already canceled.

With Sandy's main hit expected Monday, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden also have to weigh what voters will think if they are on the stump -- and not in the White House.

The storm could have an impact further west -- in another key battleground state, Ohio. High winds have already been blowing through battleground Florida -- where early voting starts on Saturday.

Virginia is in line for a beating. Gov. Bob McDonnell on Friday declared a state of emergency with flooding and widespread power outrages expected starting late Saturday or early Sunday, especially in the eastern part of the state.

With the action in the battlegrounds, Romney is up in Virginia by 1.2 points, according to the RealClearPolitics average.

As RCP is calling it, Obama still has a slight Electoral College edge, 201 to 191 for Romney, with 146 electoral votes up for grabs; 270 are needed to clinch.

The rundown:

† On Friday, Obama was briefed by Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Craig Fugate, Homeland Security Advisor John Brennan and National Hurricane Center Director Rick Knabb on preparations for Sandy. A Katrina-like disaster response could create an enormous problem for Obama just before the election.

† Biden's Saturday visit to Virginia Beach -- to stump with his wife, Jill, and son Beau Biden, the Delaware attorney general -- has been canceled "out of an abundance of caution" so "all local law enforcement and emergency management resources can stay focused on ensuring the safety of people who might be impacted by the storm."

† Romney's Sunday stops in Virginia may not take place because of the storm.

† At least one of Obama's Monday appearances with former President Bill Clinton -- the one in Virginia -- may be at risk. Obama and Clinton are booked in Orlando; Youngstown, Ohio, and in Prince William County, Va., not far from Washington.

† Sandy could head as far north as battleground New Hampshire, where a rally headlined by first lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday at the University of New Hampshire has been scrubbed.

WASHINGTON--Mayor Rahm Emanuel hits battleground Ohio to stump for President Barack Obama on Saturday and Sunday--revving up Obama volunteers and shoring up Jewish votes. Obama's former chief of staff is a headliner on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday morning; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. is also booked on the show to represent the Mitt Romney campaign.

Both Emanuel and McCain stumped for their respective candidates in Florida last week..

WASHINGTON--The campaign fund for Rep. Jesse Jackson (D-Ill.) who has been away from Congress since mid-June--and is now back at the Mayo Clinic to treat his bi-polar disorder and depression--took in $11,550 between Oct.1 and Oct. 16, according to a pre-election report filed with the Federal Election Commission on Friday.

The donors were political action committees; no individual contributions had been made. The Jackson fund reported spending $11,342 during his period, including the $5,000 monthly payment to the firm run by Jackson's wife, Ald. Sandi Jackson, who also runs his campaign. Jackson's general election campaign most public display was a robo call to district voters last week.

WASHINGTON--President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle won't be missing Halloween at the White House--a presidential tradition.

From the White House: "On Wednesday, the President will travel to Cincinnati, Ohio and Akron, Ohio for campaign events. In the evening, the President and the First Lady will welcome local children and children of military families to trick-or-treat at the North Portico of the White House."

Obama told Jay Leno on Tuesday, referring to the crucial swing state Ohio: "If anybody comes from Ohio to the White House, they will get a Hershey bar about this big. It'll be huge."

Vice President Joe Biden was just up the road from Chicago on Friday in Kenosha in battleground Wisconsin--stopping at a local landmark familiar to a lot of Chicagoans hitting the outlet malls on I-94 or heading home from Lake Geneva: Mars Cheese Castle. Biden was campaigning at the nearby University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Here's the pool report from Huffington Post reporter Jen Bendery

To everyone's delight, the motorcade rolled up to Mars' Cheese Castle at 3:18 for an OTR pit stop.

One interesting looking spot we passed on our drive: a lingerie show at the Dead End Saloon.

Photo: Tom Cruze~Sun-Times

The conservative SuperPAC that had already plowed $2 million on Tea Party conservative Joe Walsh, and had sought to put in another $2.5 million, is now putting the money elsewhere.

A spokesman with the Now or Never SuperPAC told the Chicago Sun-Times today that the group believes Walsh is secure and no longer needs its money. Walsh, already a flame thrower, made national headlines last week by declaring that abortion was never necessary to save the life of a mother. In an atypical move, he held a news conference the following day to clarify his remarks.

A Tribune/WGN poll released Friday showed Duckworth ahead by 10 points, though Walsh's campaign said that poll has been inconsistent with numbers it has seen all along.

From Tyler Harber, Now or Never spokesman:

"The Now or Never PAC has analyzed the IL8 race, weighing the candidate's individual campaigns, activities of outside groups and the trajectory of the race itself," said spokesman Tyler Harber. "We have concluded that Walsh is on his way to a win over Tammy Duckworth, allowing Now or Never to devote resources to helping Republicans win the U.S. Senate by entering the Arizona, Ohio, Montana and North Dakota races.

This does not mean that we are leaving Walsh completely. Our initial investment of nearly $2 million dollars continues to influence voters daily. In fact, one of our most recent pieces of mail in the race was received as recent as this week.

We are spending the $2.5 million elsewhere now. However, we have reason to believe that several other outside groups will continue to make significant investments in the IL8 race in the coming days."

From POLITICO:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid did not appear to have any serious injuries after his motorcade was involved in a multi-car accident in Las Vegas, according to sources familiar with the incident. He walked into the hospital on his own power.

As the two parties battle over key swing states, President Obama is enlisting some help from one of his biggest weapons -- Bill Clinton.

Clinton will appear with Clinton next week in Florida, Ohio and Virginia.

Meanwhile, Romney, who spent all day Thursday in Ohio, will hop across to Wisconsin on Monday.

From the Obama campaign:

On Monday, October 29, President Obama and President Bill Clinton will campaign in Orlando, Florida; Youngstown, Ohio; and Prince William County, Virginia. President Bill Clinton will introduce the President at all three grassroots events, and will lay out a clear picture of the economic choice Americans face in this election.

While on the trail, President Obama will share his vision to create an economy that's built to last versus going back to the same failed top-down policies that hurt middle-class families. The President has a concrete and specific second-term plan to continue restoring economic security to the middle class and to avoid returning to the same policies that crashed the economy. To view the President's plan, visit barackobama.com/plans. The President will highlight the choice facing Americans in this election between two fundamentally different visions of how to grow the economy, create middle-class jobs and restore middle-class economic security.

AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been taken via ambulance to a Las Vegas hospital after what's reported to have been a five-vehicle crash on Interstate 15 involving his motorcade.

According to the Las Vegas Sun, a source reports that Sen. Reid had no visible injuries but his trip to University Medical Center Trauma was a precaution. While more details on the crash - other injuries and how it happened - aren't currently available, the Sun did report, "Trooper Loy Hixson said five vehicles were involved in the accident: two vehicles carrying Reid and members of his party; two Metro Police vehicles; and one civilian vehicle."

Reid's wife, Landra, was scheduled to speak at an event in Las Vegas along with First Lady Michelle Obama.