. >> reporter: it was 2005 but his mother debbie smith knows the details by heart. >> oh, my god, my son spent the last days of his life in this disgusting sewage infested cold basement. >> reporter: in his memory, debbie has changed her name to add mm exposing the horrors of hazing through her two-year-old nonprofit the antihazing awareness. she talks to students and parents and schools and community groups. she described how hazing can seem harmless at first. matt had to carry a brick everywhere but it quickly escalated to the brutality in the basement. >> i didn't know that he was brainwashed into believing that that was okay. >> reporter: past rotary president says debbie's message is life-saving. >> each time i have had the opportunity to speak with debbie, i'm always deeply moved. she is an angel. >> reporter: debbie has also extended forgiveness to the 7 young men responsible for matt's hazing like jerry lim who spent several months in jail. >> to get that kind of forgiveness it goes a long way in forgiving yourself eventually. >> reporter: now as a father working toward his la

reporter: so for her anti- hazing movement had week's jefferson award in the bay area goes to debbie smith. thanks to debbie's persistence, matt's law passed in 2006. hazing was formerly only a misdemeanor under the education code rather than the state penal code even if someone died. with matt's law hazing can be charged as a felony under the state penal code now. >> strong woman, great message. thank you. >> and you can nominate your own local hero for a jefferson award online at cbssf.com/hero. >>> all right. for now throughout the evening, the latest news and weather, always on cbssf.com. >> don't forget to join us for nightbeat at 10:00 over on our sister station kbcw 44/cable 12. and join us tonight here at 11:00. good night. ♪[ music ] who are these people? the energy conscious people among us say small actions can add up to something... humongous. a little thing here. a little thing there. starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. cates too? turns out, it's californians it's me and it's you. don't stop now, it's easy to add to the routine. join energy upgrade california

but his mother debbie smith knows the details by heart. >> oh my god. my son spent the last days of his life in this disgusting sewage infested cold basement. >> in his memory, debbie has changed her name to add mn format's -- to add his name. she talks to parents, students, schools and community groups. she describes how hazing can seem harmless at first. matt had to carry a brick everywhere but it quickly escalated to the brutality in the basement. >> i did not know he was brainwashed into believing that it was okay. >> she says her message is lifesaving. >> every time i talk with debbie, i am deeply moved. she is an angel. >> debbie has also extended forgiveness to the seven young men responsible for the hazing. like jerry lim who spent several months in jail. >> to get that kind of forgiveness goes a long way with forgiving yourself. >> and now with a father working toward his walk license, jerry has joined debbie in speaking against hazing. >> any way i can help make amends for that, i'm more than willing to do. >> debbie says she will share the sto

larry smith at the "live desk" with a look at what is coming up at 5:00. larry: why aide for debbieschultz was arrested. and why snopes is on the brink of going out of business. and why some veterans and the families feel they are lied to by the v.a. i'll see you in a few. jonathan: thank you. >> we got our utter surprise. jonathan: it's on. brian van de graaff is going to bring us some film. whoo hoo! michelle: c'mon! brian: you weren't listening carefully. i said 5:15. 5:15. michelle: oh! brian: we are going to do a little bit -- michelle: what is the green thing? brian: we are going because it agricultural fair. goodness. agracadabra. we will show you few tricks. but first the weather. good night for a fair or the nats game. at first pitch it's 80 degrees. it's nice. calm. scattered clouds. there are showers making their way in for thursday afternoon. there are heftier storms. i am hopeful that the back half of saturday and sunday looking glorious. this is a magician and the hypnotist. he focuses on agra >> this is a educational agricultural show. we will change the facts for eve

owen smith, you are a politician, what can you do to help debbie?ause we have got a lobby of parliament and debbie and 100 other women are come to go parliament, that's a meeting i have organised in conjunction with kath in order to raise the profile of this issue. there is clearly a large problem, a greater problem we have anticipated previously. it is true, that not all women suffer these adverse effects, but those who do, have really grave effects, many of them, debbie's story is graphic and horrible for her, but it's actually not untypical, i have heard lots and lots of similar stories relayed to me in the last couple of weeks and if it's 10% me in the last couple of weeks and if it's10% of women who are suffering the adverse events, that's 10% of 100,000 women who have had the procedure over the last few years, that's surely too many and it is enough for us to be thinking do we need to get to the bottom of how many women have been affected and do we need to suspend the use of the mesh until we have got a clear idea of how grave a problem it is?

smith made headlines showing up bald. he's promoting the sci-fi thriller for netflix called bright. >> i'm assuming this doesn't end well. >> also at comic-con, carrie fisher and debbiet the profiles in history booth. >> we have the shooting script with handwritten annotations. we have her director's chair from jedi. >> did anybody get to hang with anybody else who worked together. >> we all hung together once for a long extended session. >> recently on instagram you were doing mariah carey interpretive dancing. can you just -- >> it's a lot of this. that's basically it. >> wow. >> by the way -- >> but our "e.t." suite is where the stars aligned and where lealiev schreiber had some turn in our photo booth. >> we had a bunch of guys dancing around in kilts. when your with your kids you don't have to pretend you don't think it's fun. >> the whole family was here, liev for his new feature, my little pony, the movie, and his ex naomi watts. >> your kids were just in here by the way. >> yes, they were. >> we're going to cross paths hopefully much later on. >> on the way, more with charlize theron, her sit-down with kevin frazier talking about the stunt that left her hurt.