The White House announced Thursday it would ask Congress for emergency funding to help pay for recovery in Texas and Louisiana from mega-storm Harvey, as a top official said the number of homes affected had hit 100,000.

"We're going to have damage to publicly owned infrastructure," said Donald Trump's homeland security advisor Tom Bossert, adding that the administration would "put together a responsible supplemental request for Congress."

"These are estimates at this point, but it looks like round about 100,000 affected homes," he said.

"That's a big number. We're going to have 100,000 affected homes, all with different degrees of insurance -- some with flood insurance, some underinsured, some uninsured."

Source: AFP