White House: VP Joe Biden's son hospitalized
Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden was admitted to Christiana Hospital on Tuesday morning, his spokesman said. He was awake, alert and communicating with his doctors, parents and wife.
Hospital spokesman Bill Schmitt referred questions to the vice president's office. A state trooper was stationed at the main entrance of the hospital and several black SUVs and men in suits with earpieces were nearby.
Biden, 41, had considered running for the Senate seat his father held before becoming vice president, but decided against it. He became attorney general in 2007 and previously served at the U.S. Justice Department.
In 2009, the younger Biden returned from a yearlong deployment to Iraq with his Army National Guard unit. He was a captain and military lawyer in the 261st Theater Tactical Signal Brigade.
"Beau Biden is a great leader with a great family, and I'm glad they're with him right now," said Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, who referred questions about Biden's condition to his family.
The vice president traveled to Delaware on Monday afternoon for a previously scheduled trip. He did a round of morning show interviews from Wilmington Tuesday morning, and was supposed to return to Washington later in the day for his weekly lunch with President Barack Obama and a series of meetings on Afghanistan.
