AP, TV organizations pull questioned video

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"The image at left is from a manipulated video, purporting to be of a twister that briefly touched down Saturday afternoon July 5, 2008 near Valentine, Neb. The image at right shows a twister in Rock, Kansas that the anonymous tornado chaser says he filmed on June 12, 2004."

San Francisco Chronicle reports:

“The Associated Press and video services operated by CBS and NBC have pulled video allegedly taken of a tornado in Nebraska last weekend after questions were raised about its authenticity. A tornado chaser has claimed that the video was a doctored version of pictures he had taken of a twister that touched down four years ago in Rock, Kan.”

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