here to present the award is jim kelly, our director of transit operations. jim? >> congratulations. i hope that you can get [unintelligible] in business. [laughter] [applause] >> on the behalf of the border of directors and the people of san francisco, thank you for your outstanding and dedicated work. >> ladies and gentlemen, i am grateful and other. thank you again. [applause] >> our next award goes to shareehn shiek. [applause] pretty popular. [laughter] he is being recognized for work as the move coordinator. over the past eight years he has been responsible for move this within the headquarters building and has handled larger moves of the entire divisions. such as when security move it from 875 stevenson. for the ability to coordinate multiple moves with minimal disruption, it has made him a valuable asset and ultimately resulted in numerous cost savings to the agency. she has been with the agency for over seven years and is the chief clerk. regarded as a subject matter expert in the area of staff relocation and data connection issues. our director of financ

nbc's jim maceda reports on a woman who wanted a challenge and as you're about to see, she got one. >> reporter: navy corpsman second class kellywanted to save lives, but no cupcake deployment, as she put it. so the 32-year-old medic from providence, rhode island ended up here in the fight against the taliban in helmand providence. and what's more, on usa marine base where she's the only woman. >> reporter: kelly t. is one who likes a challenge? >> i guess you could say that. i just like helping people. as long as i know i have helped someone, be it major or minor, i'm pretty happy. >> reporter: almost daily medevac teams rush casualties into this specialized e.r. where kelly's shock and trauma team have about 20 minutes to stabilize the patient. buying them a few precious hours for further stabilizing elsewhere. >> we have the capabilities to give them whole blood and they didn't have that before we got here. >> reporter: kelley loves her job but admits that living conditions are humbling. >> i wouldn't mind that cupcake assignment right now. >> reporter: in still freezing temperatures, there's no heat, chow is just that. >> i

jim avila, abc news, new york. >>> astronaut mark kelly says his wife, congresswoman gabrielle giffordsrds will have help from her mother and relatives and full-time nursing care. kelly says she will be able to apply skills she has been learning in rehab. ordinary things like opening a refrigerator. >> nice to be out of the hospital. it's a place she's familiar with. she doesn't -- you know, we had a very busy lifestyle, different places, so in any given year she was here very rarely. but it is very familiar to her, so that's nice. >> therapy experts warn this phase of gifford's recovery will be a bit of roller coaster and family members will need to help out. the cup has another home in tucson and kelly says his wife cannot wait to return. >>> the south florida woman convicted of trying to hire a hit man to kill her husband is starting a long prison sentence now. dahlia dipolito was sent to jail for 20 years yesterday. she was caught on video offering a man $3,000 for the murder of her husband. it turns out the man was an undercover officer. dipolito's husband says he is, quote, 5,000%