Importing Phots & Videos via PhotoStream & USB (Problem)

I have activated Photostream on my iPhone. As a matter of fact, videos do not get imported through Photostream. So I have to import them by USB. So all Photos are already stream to my MacBook and I just want to import my videos.
The problem: When I plug in my iPhone to iPhoto, it is showing my videos (which is logical because I haven´t imported them yet) and some (interestingly only some) photos, which are already in my library.
Why does this happen?
Thanks a lot and forgive me for my bad english.
Greeting

Did you try importing after seeing that? iPhoto will detect duplicates and give you the opportunity to NOT import them.
OT

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