U.S. evacuation flights dwindle

 The U.S. Embassy in Cairo advises that there will be no U.S. government evacuation flights on Friday but embassy personnel at the airport will assist U.S. citizens departing on commercial flights.

"We plan to continue evacuation efforts on Saturday, Feb. 5, on a very limited basis in view of the availability of commercial flights and decreased demand for U.S. government evacuation flights. Additional U.S. government flights after Saturday are extremely unlikely."

Approximately 2,000 U.S. citizens and their family members have been evacuated from Egypt since Monday, officials said.

See the entire Embassy statement here.