terrell forney has the very latest from hollywood, florida. >> reporter: the ferociousness of an alligator underestimated. just ask will nace. >> i felt the bones break. >> reporter: will's arm is broken, and his hand is fractured after it got caught in the mouth of a large gator at the native village wildlife center in hollywood. will is a volunteer handler at the facility and was in the pit for a show with the mean 12-foot-long, 1,000-pound bull alligator. >> he actually ended up lunging at me before i got to his nose. so my hand happened to be right in front of his face when he lunged up. he actually grabbed my hand and bent it backwards and bit down. >> reporter: the lunge demonstration is when that handler taps this gator on the nose, mouth wide open, and it was in this act where something went terribly wrong. >> what he did next was actually start to back up into the water. so i got down low and started backing up with him because i know if he would have shaken or rolled, that, you know, he would have basically taken my hand clean off. >> reporter: despite his fear, the 23-year-old w