Hurricane Laura inflicted significant damage to southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas, killing at least fourteen people, ten in Louisiana and four in Texas.

More than half a million structures don't have power in Louisiana and a quarter of a million people can't access water.

President Donald Trump announced yesterday at FEMA that he will visit Texas and Louisiana this weekend to survey storm damage from Hurricane Laura, the White House said.

Laura first hit the Lesser Antilles and brushed Puerto Rico as a tropical storm, before it moved across the island of Hispaniola. The storm killed 21 people in Haiti and four in the Dominican Republic.

The storm later moved across the length of Cuba, prompting tropical storm warnings and the evacuation of more than 260,000 people there.

The outer rainbands extended into the Florida Keys and South Florida. Laura moved across the Gulf of Mexico, strengthening slowly at first, before a period of rapid intensification on August 26. That day, Laura became a major hurricane, and later attained peak winds of 150 mph (240 km/h), making it a strong Category 4 hurricane.

Early on August 27, Laura made landfall near peak intensity on Cameron, Louisiana.

Hurricane Laura made the tenth-strongest U.S. hurricane landfall on record. (ILKHA)