Honolulu Medical Examiner

Renovations to the downtown office include repairs to a leaky roof, two new autopsy stations and a fixed air conditioning system. Staff said water used to drip into the room where autopsies were conducted. The department also upgraded its X-ray machine and got a new mortuary refrigerator. HPR's Mark Ladao has more.

Hawaiʻi’s death count due to COVID-19 stood at 811 on Tuesday. Close to 200 of those occurred in September. That number could have taxed Honolulu’s morgue had it not been for the acquisition of three refrigerated containers for the medical examiner's office to use.

The Honolulu Medical Examiner's office talks about exceeding morgue capacity, using refrigerated containers; a Hawaiʻi Island octopus farm shares how things are going with raising cephalopods and managing tours; and we revisit our discussion with the Library of Congress on including Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World in the National Recording Registry